Gsx750 cafe/street bike

It's all welded with a mig (cigweld 130)

I only asked because those look like some solid welds in a crappy location to weld.
Not the prettiest but they look solid.
I hate welding round stock.

Bruce.

Stuffed the engine into the frame, attached the front engine mounts to see how it would fit/line up. Put the tank and carbs on to make sure I had enough clearance.

I left the original bandit engine mounts on just in case by some miracle they lined up, and also as a reference to show the difference between the engine size and how they mount in relation to the swing arm pivot. So I'm now in the process of cutting the bandit mounts off.

I think I'm gonna use the original gsx front engine mounts and make new bottom/rear mounts, I would like the output shaft as close to the rear pivot as possible, but this would make the gap between the front of the engine and the front of the frame huge!!!
Testing for engine/tank/carb clearance

Grinding off engine mounts

More grinding!

Just curious. What type of machine did you use to weld those in with?

Bruce.

It's all welded with a mig (cigweld 130)

Just curious. What type of machine did you use to weld those in with?

Bruce.

Cheers for all the positive comments :-) .Today I didn't have much time, but managed to get all the welding finished on the top and bottom shock mounts.
My next step is to get the motor in and set up so I can make the engine mounts, I have a whole bunch of bracing that I want to do, but will wait till the engine is in to make sure I don't have clearance issues.

Here's some photos of the mounts welded in.

I'm liking it! Nice job.

Looks awesome. Great work. I'm impressed.

Cut the top and bottom shock mounts out of the bandit frame and got them tacked into the gsx frame. Still a long way to go... Have to weld them in and start doing some serious bracing!
I thought I was being pretty careful with my measuring, but when I put the swing arm in it wasn't sitting at the right angle ( was at about 5degrees, on the bandit it sits at about 8.5 degrees) did a ghetto modification to the dogbone link in the meantime to get it at the right angle. Will make some new dogbone links once I get the engine in and am happy with all the angles etc.





Phew....... I need heaps of beer now.

best exhaust hanger ever.

Maybe it is me but it looks like that pipe would drag. You would at least need to go slow over speed bumbs...lol.

Paul

Or really fast so the speed bump becomes a jump.
The forks are sitting too low in the clamps, and the new engine has a longer stroke and better undercarriage clearance for the exhaust. I do want the pipe close to the ground cause it looks sick.
As the bike was before it had about 100mm of exhaust clearance, which was fine so long as I didnt ride off kerbs.

Maybe it is me but it looks like that pipe would drag. You would at least need to go slow over speed bumbs...lol.

Paul

old fatty looking just right with that stance ......you going twin or mono.

Definitely going mono.

old fatty looking just right with that stance ......you going twin or mono.

This is a ghetto mock up with the swing arm and forks in place ( thanks to Manu for the awesome engineering work on rear pivot and steerer tube)

Bike is totally stripped down now and the hard work begins......

just wondering has anyone put a Katana rear wheel on their project bike without replacing the swingarm on their 78 750?

I'm pretty sure it'd either rub in the front inside of the swingarm, and you'd probably have to bore the axle slots in the swingarm for the Katana axle to fit.