My Kat rebuild

[GSX1100 dreamn]

And the rear shock mounts.

Cheers Andrew.

 

[posplayr]

Nice welds

 

[GSX1100 dreamn]

Some of my best welding is done by other people thankfully haha.

 

[Guest]

Looks great!! Is that wheel bling a kit?

 

[GSX1100 dreamn]

I don't know about the wheels history as I got it as part of the donor bike. Sorry no help there.

 

[Guest]

Sorry I meant to specify the front brake set up. The rotors and calipers.

 

[GSX1100 dreamn]

Yes a kit of sorts,
The Brembo calipers and the adapters were from Webike.
The floating discs are off the GSX1135 EF and using the GSXR shoulder bolts for the disc mounting.
Standard 1982 Kat 5/8''/16mm master cylinder.
Cheers Andrew.

 

[Guest]

Thank you. ��

 

[GSX1100 dreamn]

Here are some more pictures of the brake setup.
The GSXR bolts because the holes in the discs are 10mm.

A spacer is needed to center the disc to the caliper.

I did open the up the bolt hole slightly just to give clearance for the shoulder bolt if needed.

Standard disc right and EF disc left, same dimensions 275mm dia. just that the offset occurs sooner due to the floating design.

All the parts ready for assembly

Cheers Andrew.

 

[GSX1100 dreamn]

I am a center stand tragic, just love having one.
So one of the problems with some 4-1 exhausts is that you have to remove the center stand to fit them, I then noticed the 1250 Bandit one is offset which would help people like me have my cake and eat it too.

enjoy,
Cheers Andrew.

 

[GSX1100 dreamn]

Soooo...
Bandit suspension from donor bike onto Kat conversion, so far so good.
Have been tossing up about the speedo drive.
Mechanical drive front axle as per Kat,
Front sprocket pickup electronic as per Bandit.
Decided to try the Bandit setup below.

Then a dummy run on the spare 750 motor,

And that was it,
Pulled my 1100 apart to drill and tap its front sprocket shaft and nope, nothing, using the same drill bits blunt straight up. New drill bit (cause I,m a crap drill sharpener) and blunt too. The 750 drilled and tapped like a hot knife in butter.
So I am wondering are the 1100 shafts hardened compared to the 750 ???
Cue scratching head and a glass of wine(s).
Cheers Andrew.

 

[GSX1100 dreamn]

Happy with the rear wheel alignment.

Chain run next.
Cheers Andrew.

 

[GSX1100 dreamn]

Made some progress with the speedo trigger. This setup allows me to run the Bandit style of dash.

Used a ball bearing (seen below) to help center the trigger.

Cheers Andrew.

 

[GSX1100 dreamn]

These are my 3 choices.
I have this one (below) from the donor bike, be it from the faired version.

And these other 2.

Cheers Andrew.

 

[GSX1100 dreamn]

And maybe this one.

 

[GSX1100 dreamn]

A bit more progress
Mounted the trigger.

And yet to mount the pickup

A bit of an illusion plenty of clearance to the pump tank

Lets see what shakes loose.
Cheers Andrew.

 

[GSX1100 dreamn]

Bracket and pickup mounted
If it stays in place I'll connect the bandit dash to see if it works
Bracket and pickup

With the tank spaced out to clear the pickup

And all back together to take me to work tonight

Cheers Andrew.

 

[posplayr]

This may center the rear wheel on the frame centerline, but it does not align the rear wheel with the same plane. Normally you align the front wheel with the rear wheel (using swing arm fork adjustment opposite chain)after centering the rear.

https://www.thegsresources.com/_for...-of-wheel-alignment&highlight=wheel+alignment

Happy with the rear wheel alignment.

Chain run next.
Cheers Andrew.

 

[GSX1100 dreamn]

A good point from another forum member was with the SFV650 Gladius dash is that it comes from a 2cyl bike a conceivably the tacho output from my 4cyl ECU my not be compatable with the 2cyl dash tacho.
So playing it safe I am back to 3 choices for now. And I did a mock up of sorts.

Cheers Andrew.

 

[GSX1100 dreamn]

Well that answers that question the electronic speedo works.
https://youtu.be/5Uq0xReoEuQ
Just need to mount the dash for now.
Cheers Andrew