Kichigai GS1100ESD

keep it up........its all good

I know Katman, but Im just trying to document everything to help anyone attempting to do this swap in the future! I hope it comes in handy someday! :-D

Buddy, your on a posting frenzzzzzzy......

This is a picture of the new GXSR ignition with the old GS ignition pig tail.



After all of the modifications, the ignition and the steering latch worked perfectly! \\/

The next chalange was the connector for the ignition switch. The orginal connector for my GS1100 had a green connector with small terminals. The neweer GSXR had a white terminal connector with larger terminals which would not work. Note: the stock ignition switch had two closed contacts when it was switch to the on position. The GSXR switch only has one!

Here is a picture of the stock ignition showing the 4 wires: orange, red, gray and brown and the back side of the switch.





Here is a picture of the back side of the GSXR switch! As you can see, the wire colors were the same.



The easy fix was to cut the existing pigtail from the old ignition switch and to resolder it onto the new switch. I has to use a meter to also identify which terminal gave me two contact switch with the key in the on position.

I took the removed pieces, drilled the holes out and made two alluminum spacers out of them for the gauge mounting brackets.




Then I put it all back together again!

To bring the ignition higher up the upper tree, I had to do some cutting!

I had to remove about 7/16 off of the two mounting post for the switch.

Last week I got a change finally get back to working on my GS project. I tried installing the upper tree back on the forks and noticed that I had a few clearance issues. The ignition lock was hitting the fairing bracket! I have attached a few more pictures to explain what needed to be done.

First the fairing bracket mounting holes needed to be longated to move it closer to the steering neck.



Next I had to cut a notch in the fairing bracket for the steering lock.


Here you can see where the steering lock latch will need to line up with the new notch. The horizontal fairing bar also got in the way so I had to bring the ignition lock higher up the tripple tree.

Nice job on the clocks. I am working on an 84 750 right now and he is needing to do the same thing for his inverted frontend.

I am also upgrading his swingarm to a 95 gsxr 750.

keep up the good work.

Thanks, This is helpful!

all the gsxrs will work too but it is an issue of length. I say bandit cuz they have raised bars and higher clocks than gixxers.

any bandit 1200 97-00 should do the trick.

You don't have to worry about the speedo. Just get a cable from a bandit (should be long enough) and plug her in.

ALLLLLL will be good.

Katman, what year/size bandit should I get it for??

I finally got my gauges mounted on the top triple tree. I had to fabricate a aluminum bracket but it wasnt too hard.





Here is a picture with my stock bars mounted!



Not bad for a couple hours of work on the weekend. Now to get them mounted on my bike! It sure is getting cold in my garage at night! At least I was making some progress and having fun. \\/

You don't have to worry about the speedo. Just get a cable from a bandit (should be long enough) and plug her in.

ALLLLLL will be good.

How about mounting the gauges to the fairing bracketry? That's probably easier than finding someone to recalibrate the old ones. There's probably a bunch of GSXR, Bandit, and Katana gauges that would work as long as the donor used the front wheel to run the speedo with a 17" wheel. Running a lead from one of the coils would get the electronic tach up and running.