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My 79 GS1000 that I bought brand new in 1980 was the baddest thing on the road back in the early 80's ....I was running an MTC 1175 kit with 455/425 lift cams and a head port job that I did myself. Carbs were 33 smoothbores with individual cone filters. Pipe was a 4 into 1 Kerker. Third gear "roll on" wheelies were fun and very predictable. My friends got to where they would not even ride with me anymore as they could not keep up.....Biggest problem I had with it was the alternator rotor would keep falling off the crank. I think it was too heavy to accelerate that quickly. I finally used lapping compound to seat it on the crank as someone had suggested. Well, it sort of worked and never came loose again but the crank end broke off instead. By the time I had the HD crank end put on it, I decided to make it a strip bike only.......For the next 10 years I raced it at many AMA Dragbike and IDBA races around the country......I even ran it in the Gatornationals P/S Bike class in 1986.......My last race was in 1991 at the Prostar race in Gainesville where I qualified #1 in TopGas....ran a 8.200 at 158.85 MPH.... 1/8 mile time was 5.14.....when they interviewed me before the race I gave all props to the GS 1000 motor (and a slight tail wind)........The crank broke (modified 1100 unit) the very next weekend and it sits here in my garage and I look at it every night wondering when the day will come for it to be resurrected........Billy
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