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1000 73.5mm overbore kit

I would imagine it has to do with the cost of the materials that go into it.

Higher cost materials usual equal higher quality materials.

I bet the profit margin between these and a brand name set are not that far off of each other, but the cost to produce them is!


Tank
 
Factory over-bore copies. :cool:
Same cast piston design and same low compression ratio.
Probably a good way to gain a little more power.
Especially if you have some 1074 cylinders that HAVE to be bored.

Eric
 
those look like cast pistons Still a great deal. ?? The valve reliefs don't look very deep
 
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Higher cost materials usual equal higher quality materials.
+1 on that.If I could find out what alloy they're made from, weather cast or forged,and how they compared to OEM,I might consider them for a stock rebuild.I'd like to find out more about them before I'd make up my mind.Notice that there's no specs?All this points in the direction of cheap, but not good nor fast.I like to get at least two out of three.
 
73.5 mm over bore on a GS1000 leaves the liners really thin. It's doable, but not generally advised.

Those pistons look decent enough. I suspect they would be fine. Cast, just like the OEM Suzuki pistons.
 
Factory over-bore copies. :cool:
Same cast piston design and same low compression ratio.
Probably a good way to gain a little more power.
Especially if you have some 1074 cylinders that HAVE to be bored.

Eric

Safe bet to use in the 1074 cylinders. ;)
I have been running the MTC forged 73.5 pistons in one of my '79 1000E engines since '93 (?)

I have some 1074 cylinders that are ready to go to replace that set-up with 74 mm MTC pistons on stand-by.

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1114 cc's this time around. (IIRC)
That bike, doesn't need any more power, it is starting to leak.

Eric
 
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If you overbored a 1074 to accommodate that set, what displacement would you end up with approx? I have a spare engine that probably needs overbore. Was the 1114cc you mentioned for that scenario?
 
1848, IIRC, the 73.5 pistons in to a bored 1074 engine nets 1154 cc's.
In the shorter stroked 997 engines, it nets 1100 cc's.
Perhaps someone else will correct me on those.
I am using the 74 mm pistons in a 1074 cylinder on a 997 block netting the 1114 cc's that I mentioned.

Eric
 
73.5 mm pistons in a GS1000 makes 1100 cc.
 
Looking in the manual, the 1074cc 1100g has a piston diameter of 71.95. The 73.5 mm pistons would be 2.15% larger. 102.15% of 1074cc's is 1097cc. Am I over-simlifying this? The stroke wouldn't change, would it?
 
Stroke doesn't change but you gain bore X stroke in cc's. ;)
Example: The 76 mm pistons in my '82 1100G made 1198 cc's.

Eric
 
Maybe this is it? 1100g has 66mm (6.6 cm) stroke. Formula for volume of cylinder is Pi times r squared times stroke. Figuring 74 mm (7.4 cm) diameter cylinder, that would be 3.7cm for the radius of cylinder. So
Pi(3.14) x 3.7 x 3.7 x 6.6=283.71cc for 1 cylinder. Four cylinders would equal 1134.85 cc.
 
73.5 mm pistons in a GS1100G makes 1120 cc
 
Yeah, I guess my mistake was figuring a cylinder bore of 74 mm when it would probably be more like 73.55 mm for a 73.5 piston.
 
Maybe this is it? 1100g has 66mm (6.6 cm) stroke. Formula for volume of cylinder is Pi times r squared times stroke. Figuring 74 mm (7.4 cm) diameter cylinder, that would be 3.7cm for the radius of cylinder. So
Pi(3.14) x 3.7 x 3.7 x 6.6=283.71cc for 1 cylinder. Four cylinders would equal 1134.85 cc.

I believe that you got it!
The stock dimensions of the Suzuki GS1150's DUH.:o
66 X 74=1135 cc's ;)

Ed is probably correct with the 1120 figure with 73.5 piston bore.

Eric
 
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Did this 3.5 mm overbore.

Did this 3.5 mm overbore.

I recently installed this kit. The 140$ one and there was $28 in shipping but the kit came from Japan in 4 days USPS. My bores were so pitted from sitting 25 years that they needed it. The liner is thin, but if you do bore it be sure to have the machinist re-grind an entry taper at the bottom of the cylinder. My man didn't and it took me 4 hours to get the pistons into the cylinders.
 
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