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'81 GS1100E skinned with '82 GS1000G/GK body parts.

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Hello.

It's been 8 years sine my last post.
Finally ready to restore/mod/have fun.

I own a '81 GS1100E but I enjoy more the look of the '82 GS1100G/GK

Can I install GK body parts on my GS1100E?


The other route is getting a GK frame and body parts and swap in my E engine, but not sure it will fix / work. The GK is shaft.

Thank you.
 
For the love of all that is Holy, No.:idea:

You do know the G/GK are shaft drive and the 11E chain drive, right? Maybe a swap could be done, but at what cost?
 
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They're completely different bikes in every way. Frames, engines, drive system, bodywork, proportions, etc.

I think the front wheel bearings and maybe a few nuts and bolts might be the same.


It is super-annoying when you're looking for parts or whatever and it's just listed as something for a "GS1100" without the E, ES, L, G, GL, or GK that would actually tell you which flippin' bike it is.
 
bwringer said:
They're completely different bikes in every way. Frames, engines, drive system, bodywork, proportions, etc.

I think the front wheel bearings and maybe a few nuts and bolts might be the same.
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Rear tire air is compatible (usually). Front is completely different. :watermelon:
 
At the risk of a hijack, how about swapping the 82/83 1100E body parts onto an 81 1100E?
 
yes and yes if your handy, people have used shafty frames for chain drive swingarm swaps , wider at pivot more choices means easier and lots of engines will fit
 
Don R said:
At the risk of a hijack, how about swapping the 82/83 1100E body parts onto an 81 1100E?
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I don't know the answer (yet), but at least that's a logical switch. As Cycle World said in 1982, the '81 just 'didn't look like the world's fastest bike.' 1982 solved that and also lowered the seat height a bit.

Being that the engine is externally identical, and I think the frame was unchanged in '82, it should be possible to skin an '81 with '82 or '83 bodywork and tank.
 
people have been using 1980-83 frames to make katana replicas, because they like that body work more, go figure never thought a katana looked good
seems every ausie racing a classic suzuki it's a katana, not many started as such, real hard to get a good set of any of these early 80's panels nowadays anyway
very few in the world mess with this stuff anyway. Nay sayers are just that
 
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