78 GS1000 left for dead

Hey Busa1300,

Good to see you've gone down the SH-775 path for the reg/rec. The final touch, to save you from being stranded on the side of the road, would be to prevent chafing of the 5 wires draped over the top edge of the electrical mounting plate. Eventually vibration will cause the wiring insulation to wear through on the sharp edge of the plate. A thin strip of moulded rubber fitted onto the edge of the plate is ideal, or just wrap the wires in a layer of thin sheet rubber or electrical tape.
If you already have plans to do this, then ignore what I've just written....

Ignition and charging system done

All wiring done now, all connections have tested good, and ready to get carbs rejetted this weekend.
Then clean inside of tank, rebuild petcock, put in the oil and new plugs.... Then fire it up.
Hopefully then I can set timing and check carb sync.

Then it's on the ground, after I get my front calipers mounted how I want...

.....getting closer....

B-King radial master on my GS1000

Here's the B-King radial master cylinder I am hoping solves the spongy brake feel with my antidive....
Fits / looks just like it was designed to go with the rest of my bike

Thanks for the positive words guys.
I really like the way RG500 MK III / MK V (and GS1000R) front ends look, with the antidive and first gen floating rotors.
No $$$ for the real thing, but GS1100 forks and 1150 rotors are close enough for the street.
I know antidive gives a mushy brake feel, so I am using a B-King radial master cylinder to solve that issue.
Still not sure what I am going to use for calipers yet though, to work with these rotors...???...want rotors to match the rear....

Is AWESOME!!!!
G

Looks amazing, I really like the 1150 rotor compared to the stock one. Beautiful rims.....

Here's my later generation rear caliper mounted with a GS1100 swing arm, GS1150 rotor, GS1000C hub, stainless spokes and Sun 3.5x18 aluminum rim....and all my refinished bolts.....still need to make up a brake line yet to completely finish...

Getting close enough, I can almost see an end in sight for this project.
When it's done and running, I'll post all the detail pics of everything changed/rebuilt.
One at a time for now... Finished up my much newer design rear master and mounts/fittings/linkage...

I had no idea that was available...tried to do a search on exhaust...but few options came up.
I did find a stainless pipe, a guy in California does a couple times a year (Moto GP or some name like that)
But the pipe mounts to the foot peg...and the rest of the lower peg mount gets cut off.
The whole point originally for this bike, was to make a easy to ride cruiser, so my wife could ride comfortably...
With no foot pegs, or higher mounted pegs... I'd be back to where I was with all my other bikes then.

[steve murdoch]

Hindle has made some stainless systems.
I have not seen one on a GS yet but have seen and heard one on a CB1100F and it was excellent.
I think Ripple Rock Racing is the sole distributor.

http://www.ripplerockracers.com/product/suzuki-gs1000-hindle-stainless-steel-exhaust-systems-to-fit-1978-80/

Left for Dead GS1000 Vance/Hines header and Dyna ignition

My header showed up today...
The options were obviously pretty slim to near none...
I remember back in the day when I had my first 1000E, there must have been at least 10 companies that had a header to fit.

Need to decide if I'm going with a stage 3 and my 26's or the set of 29's I have on my other GS.
(the other GS has a 80 head and a set of 33's on the shelf...)

Electric restoration....

Time for all the electrical components to get a make over now...
have a new complete Dyna ignition system, and fixing up my handlebar switches at the moment
Still need to get a newer style voltage regulator, to replace my reg/rectifier...just not sure what to get yet.
Also need to get wiring straightened out...(headlight wiring cut from PO putting on windjammer)...and cut up ignition switch...

Finally decided on a front fender... Cut down one from a GS1100E. Needed to have clearance for the oil cooler...and look cool in my opinion.

as far as sending out the tail for paint match....I probably won't pull it back off till winter now if I do.

[chuck hahn]

If you send me the tail I will have my guy in OKC do it. Hes one of the best I have EVER seen. If you follow any of my recent rebuilds youll see his paint matching skills there I will even have him mix a pint for you and send it back with your part.

I dont know why there would be so much as ONE scratch from them scanning though. The scanner my guy uses has a soft rubber seat around the lens and it looks like an old polaroid camera actually. He puts it on the part and the scanner never twitches after that. He snaps a picture ( scan ) 3 times and the computer prints a mix code in seconds flat. Its never failed on anything i have taken him yet!!

Looks great. Always a good day when shes a roller again. Any thoughts on getting a scan of the paint yet??? I know, and yes i am shamelessly begging again...LOL

I took the tail piece 5-6 weeks ago into work to have our paint supplier run a scanner over it.
After having it for about a week, they said the scanner couldn't pick up any code.
They said they would have their top mixing guy try and make a match (which would have no corresponding paint code)
After another week, they asked how close I needed the paint to match....I told them to bring me the tail back, and I would figure something else out. They told me then they were sorry that the color was so difficult, and they offered to take it to the RM lab and they could match it for sure in Ohio.
I told them maybe this winter, after seeing how scratched up my tail was from them rolling the scanner over it 20 times or more.