fuel injected turbo katana

[Guest]

I am using a Pingel petcock for this project. It fows more and I just don't like vacuum feeds. Too much trouble. Also installed the thermistor low fuel warning system from an SV 650. Its not a good idea to wait until you are out of gas and flip to reserve when your on EFI, so this will do nicely. At approximately where I would go onto reserve I now have a warning light on my dash that comes on. This peticular unit uses dual thermistors so I will be hooking up a secondary critically low warning light.

I was going to paint the low fuel unit as it was pretty ugly then realized its brass. Same as the outputs of my fuel valve, so I polished it up as shiny as gold. Matches nicely and looks great.

 

[Guest]

Here is what I did under the seat of my katana project. I cut some aluminum as many do, to relocat my electrics under the seat. This is not original, but it is something you have to do if you want to hide some clutter and clean up the look of the bike. Don't get me wrong, I like the electrical panel on the side, it adds to the look of the stock katana, but just didn't fit this project.

The extra bolts you see are for mounting the fuel injection controler and some other odds and ends. Here is a tip for anyone wanting to do this to their bike. Make sure you don't have tooooo long a screw in the back by the tail light. If you do, you just may tare a hole in your tire. The stock katana wheel rises above the seat rails so be careful to check all clearances and suspension travel.

Also tucked in there you will see my new lithium battery of 2.2 lbs. 270 cold cranking amps with 18 amp hrs. Monster output, miniscule footprint. Just under the new aluminum is a new "series" regulator rectifier. Do yourself a favor and google it. A buddy on a forum turned me onto these for which I am thankful, Thank Jimmy!!!!. I liked them and the batteries so much I became a dealer.

YOu will also see the voltage meter and my all weather usb charger for my iPhone. To the right of the usb is the push button switch for both. I wanted to be able to monitor battery status while the phone was charging since it would likely be sitting around shooting the breeze. When not in use I can keep them from drawing power. The usb plug draws power even if there is nothing plugged into it, so I am told. For on the move monitoring, I have a Yoshimura mutlimeter up front with oil temp, clock and volts. If you look closely, you may see the positive lead coming out of the fuse box (the bottom of our fuse boxes has a neg and pos accessory connection) This accessory terminal is hot with key off. That way I can charge the phone without the rest of the bike using power too.

I have some clean up to do. The positive lead from the battery is too short, and I need some more black zip ties. I am more anxious to get this on the road right now, then I can look after details off season, in a couple months.

 

[Flaming Chainsaws]

Oh man.... This is amazing! Aren't all of your bikes like this? I mean like, you know... AWESOME!!! A stock Katana is sick as is but this is like 10 steps above. :clap:

 

[Guest]

Here is how nice the flush mount gas cap turned out. I cut out the bung and replaced it with a fuel bung from a Harley Davidson Sportster. The flush mount cap is an oem discontinued cap that works great for my purposes. I don?t like trying to get my keys out when pulling up the the pump. The only think I need a key for now is my seat lock and I may be working on a hydrolic seat over the winter. Like I don?t have enough to do.

 

[Guest]

The beast is on the road and phase I is complete. I will be riding for another few weeks and then the season is over. Over the winter I will be installing the fuel injection which is phase II. Once I have that all sorted out, I will be adding the turbo so please stay tuned. There is lots more to come. Over the coming weeks I will be posting more detailed pictures of the katana so you can see up close exactly what I have done and how it turned out. Although the pics look great I have to say the bike looks way better in person.

The contrast of the orange and black just doesn't translate well in the pics. I have to say it sure is nice to be cruising the Sea 2 Sky highway finally. Cheers!

 

[Flyboy]

Rob, that is a master piece, take a bow.
I am staying tuned for phase II and III for sure.

 

[jwhelan65]

Beauty Rob! where did you get that sprocket cover?

 

[Guest]

Beauty Rob! where did you get that sprocket cover?

I made it.

 

[Guest]

Rob, that is a master piece, take a bow.
I am staying tuned for phase II and III for sure.

Definitely +1 on all of the above... awesome stuff! :clap:

 

[Guest]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uudUDvgZTZk

 

[dueller]

Shorai battery

Shorai battery

Hey, I was wondering what model battery you put in your bike? I looked for mine and it is only 210CCA and 14 AH. Was hoping to maybe go bigger than what is recommended to add some options without leaving me hanging cuz of a drained battery. Thanks!

 

[Reaper0001]

hey you did an exclent job on this props and kudos
i would like to know what did you use for throttle bodies and fuel injectors?
i would like to do this to my gs 1000

 

[Guest]

Update:

 

[Guest]

Congratulations! Very well deserved :clap:

 

[steve murdoch]

Congrats, Rob.
Too bad about the rain.

 

[gotgixers]

Rob, thats a schweet ride man ....

 

[Reaper0001]

what intake system did you use im thinking about converting mine to fuel injection as well without turbos and i am pricing stuff

 

[maggotbreath]

Congratulations Rob! Still going strap on that Turbo?

 

[Guest]

Hey, I was wondering what model battery you put in your bike? I looked for mine and it is only 210CCA and 14 AH. Was hoping to maybe go bigger than what is recommended to add some options without leaving me hanging cuz of a drained battery. Thanks!

I am using a lithium 270cca 18amp/hr 2 lb battery.

 

[Guest]

Congratulations Rob! Still going strap on that Turbo?

Thanks M8, turbo is sched for next winter. Right now I have to deal with major head issues. Bent valves, toasted guides and roasted exhaust valves.

The head only has a couple hundred miles on it. New APE guides and I thought new ex 1mm over valves but they are at spec limit. Going to be expensive sorting this out. I have a couple grand into the head already and I am looking at another $1,000 as I need 16 new stainless 28.5mm valves, 16 guides and new seats cut.

A late night and lack of attention cost me the intakes as I neglected to back off the adj screws when changing out the cams for a set with much larger base circles. I pulled them out of another gs1100 engine I have here and they are lower lift than what I took out so...... just wasn't thinking clearly.That is the only thing I can think of that did it. I know something was up when I spun the engine over and there was no compression.

No marks on the pistons, no noise when spun over but the intakes are from .001 to .002 run out. 4 of them I had to hammer out with an old valve. Yes, I know... UGLY!!

That has led to the discovery of the toasted guides and ex valves. Not sure what is up with the ex valves, I thought they were new. Prob is I had the head done well over year ago by a guy out of town and it has been sitting all this time and I can't remember if they were new or used valves.

Either way, I need 8 new 24mm valves, and 8 new 28.5's.