Great craftsman ship

[lopee]

I saw this article and thought how cool! real engineering marvel. I believe it said he got it up to 650cc.

http://www.sportrider.com/bikes/146_0110_suzuki_gs500/index.html

[jeremy_nash]

I saw that page yesterday when doing a google search for gs500 race

[O.C.D.]

Read that a while back.  Heck of a nice build!!!  I would love to see that one in person!

[The Buddha]

Cedric Smith, that thread has been around since the late 90's. He also had given up racing it prolly in the early 00's.
That bike used to break cranks before he got it to that 580 displacement and he had some sort of ferrari Formula 1 pistons from 96 or 97 which was the only way it stopped breaking cranks.
BTW he had it up to 680 cc and was insanely quick when it stayed together.
Cool.
Buddha.

[gregvhen]

next time you say "crafstman ship" it better have something to do with craftsman tools.  Im sorry we were looking for "what is crafstmanship?"

[jrains89]

Cedric Smith, that thread has been around since the late 90's. He also had given up racing it prolly in the early 00's.
That bike used to break cranks before he got it to that 580 displacement and he had some sort of ferrari Formula 1 pistons from 96 or 97 which was the only way it stopped breaking cranks.
BTW he had it up to 680 cc and was insanely quick when it stayed together.
Cool.
Buddha.

You could have just read the article... He used Cosworth 85mm pistons, and "Smith 'got tired of throwing cranks at the thing.' Not to mention the cases previous crank failures occasionally took with them. Smith turned to Moldex for a billet steel crank with bigger diameter journals. Since the fluid damper was paid for, he mounted it to the monster crank. Now, he's managed more than four seasons without a failure."

[The Buddha]

That may be what the aritcle says. I hear what I know from a friend who has met cedric smith and worked as a fire marshal assigned to Cedric's pit on a few ocassions. BTW the bike was called CSXR (Cedric Smith Experimental Racer) as per Cedric smith.

He was running ferrari pistons - maybe cosworth made those - doubt it though.

Cool.
Buddha.