78 GS1000 left for dead

Sync is done

Sync, and timing set... Runs smooth...
Need to get it on ground before snow and test throttle response and look at plugs.

It's alive....!!!!

I fired it up, and idles at 1000 no problem....throttle seems ok, but it's still sitting on a table.
Going to double check timing tomorrow, and then sync carbs...
Will rebuild petcock and clean out tank this week and get it on the ground.

Still having trouble trying to get my front brakes working right yet....

Cleaned up my Mikuni 26mm carbs

Cleaned up carbs finally today. I soda blasted them on the outside about a year ago, but wasn't sure if I was going to use them or my 29's. I measured the ports in the heads and they were between 26-27mm... So not much point in a bigger carb, if my ports are smaller than the carbs....
Used a stage 3 Dynojet kit, and will probably use K+N individual filters instead of air box on carbs with a big K+N stretched over the mouth of the air box.

Hopefully I'll have a computer again soon, and I can post more and better pics.
(using phone now)....
No problem with tickets because I'm always working on my next bike, instead of riding the one I just finished...
Plus I'm old enough now to know where and when to ride in my area. And to avoid the cops in most cases if I ever do get out of the garage.
The older I get the slower I go....

[steve murdoch]

How do you still have a license?
I would have been locked up a long a time ago with your stable of speed.

Us and our 3rd world problems....always look forward to your posted pictures, very nice herd.

Change of pace

Got tired of working on the GS, so I got a few of the strokers out for end of the season free for all.

[roeme]

That's a beauty!

Thanks, that's definitely the basic look I'm going for.

Love it - resto mod but sooooo period

Waiting for my brake lines to show up...

Waiting for my brake lines to show up...tracking says Thursday...
Taking seat in this week or next to get recovered, after my reshaping of a burned out E model seat.

From the cockpit...

Gauges cleaned up, all lights working, and housing re sprayed back to original semigloss look.
Polished upper and lower triples I think look better than black...(yes my opinion only perhaps, but I'm the one who will be looking at it) No black plastic ignition cover, or plastic cover on the lower triple either...

It's not done yet....but so very close...

figured out caliper mounts

Brackets are done, rebuilding calipers and mounting this weekend.

Calipers for wire wheels...GS1000

I decided to use calipers off a 2001 600 Bandit.
I was not going to use spacers on rotors, to move them out for 4 piston calipers.
Still undecided on which one of two methods I'm going to use to mount them though?

It's in the plan