Engine badges...

[trevor]

Trevor, did you get the emblems with the black background and silver raised letters or silver background with gold lettering?

Here are mine David,
Cheers,

[AJ]

I don't care if I get the exact ones, but it sure was nice to learn that these are available from the dealer - and at prices cheaper than they're showing on ebay! LOL!

[Spyder]

So what does TDCC stand for?

[AJ]

So what does TDCC stand for?

Twin Dome Combustion Chamber

[retcol]

Trevor, your bike is spotlessly beautiful, don't you ever ride it?

[Nessism]

Twin Dome Combustion Chamber

Never seen TDCC before. Sure that's not a typo?

[Spyder]

Trevor, your bike is spotlessly beautiful, don't you ever ride it?

He rides the hell out of that thing. I think he's just that OCD and can't let it sit dirty. Lol

[trevor]

Trevor, your bike is spotlessly beautiful, don't you ever ride it?

Lol...thanks retcol...like Spyder says, I ride the hell out of it! 20000kms in the last year. It just hit 50000kms last week.
Syder might also be right about the ocd thingy. I enjoy cleaning it almost as much as riding it.

[BigD_83]

Never seen TDCC before. Sure that's not a typo?

Hi Ed,

At the risk of totally booting this thread sideways (apologies, Spyder):

Flyboy asked the same question over in this thread

Pretty much the same pictures there as above in post#15.

As I said, as far as I have been able to find out, the black TDCC emblems are specific to the 83 650G and GL. I think the 650GT (Euro model) had the same.

Although the inability to find one as a replacement part certainly had me doubting their validity, mine, GSJim's 650GD, Skateguy50's old 650GLD, and a newer member on here (Wingsconsin) who just posted a video of his GLD, all have the same TDCC emblem.

Pretty convinced it's not a typo, but just an oddity exclusive to the '83 650s

[SVSooke]

OK here's the break down of the TSCC and TDCC .TSCC is Twin Swirl Combustion Chamber,TDCC is Twin Dome Combustion Chamber.As far as I know only the 81-3 650's had TDCC.

[BigD_83]

The twin dome design is not exclusive to the GS650. During my search I found that Suzuki used the same design in other bikes, but the badges are not found on GSes apart from the 83 GS650.

[Spyder]

That is very interesting. I like learning new oddities about the history of these machines... Thanks for sharing, and good luck on your quest for new ones...