Longer swingarm to a GS450?

[Guest]

Hi all, my first post here

I have a -82 GS450 project bike. I'm not 100% sure of the style I will be aiming to, but possibly something in the lines of a scrambler.

One thing I am sure about, I would like to have a longer swingarm, and increase the angle of the rear shocks related to horizontal direction. I know this will not improve handling - probably make it worse - but I want to do it just for the looks. Does anyone know if there is a straight swap, or a swap doable with reasonable amount of work?

Thanks!

[sam000lee]

There's been some discussion about this in other threads. I think a Ninja 250 swingarm swaps in pretty quick with some grinding.
Look up Rich Graver's GS450 that bike had a longer swingarm with a monoshock but I'm not exactly sure where it was sourced from.

[Guest]

There's been some discussion about this in other threads. I think a Ninja 250 swingarm swaps in pretty quick with some grinding.
Look up Rich Graver's GS450 that bike had a longer swingarm with a monoshock but I'm not exactly sure where it was sourced from.

Thanks! Do you know more specifically what age Ninja would do? I guess it would ne a GPZ or a GPX in europe.

[sam000lee]

This is a little late but I just stumbled upon this. Used a Katana 600 Swingarm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mphi9ZyDp2k

[hillsy]

GS500 swingarm would be longer than a 450 one and probably bolt straight in as well.