1996 GS500 Basket Case Build into a GS600R

[jacob92icu]

Yea man, hurry up and finish this darn thing slow poke.

But really though, i want to see it finished.

[Donnie]

Now I think I know what my next project will be .... Just need a donor bike to start with. A Susuki 600 r motor in a Gs500f frame could be alot of fun... 

[cbrfxr67]

thanks for asking Show,...I did a couple 4 wheelers and then got distracted by another project similar to steez's Low expectation teaser,....doh

[iamhiding]

fuuuuucking hell... love my gs, love my cbr f3. what a swap! personally id have looked at using a big twin like a vtr, trx or tl motor, maybe even ventured into the realms of v4 with a vfr 750 motor (something I've been considering actually) rather than completely lose the twin sound / characteristics with an inline 4. yeah i think the thread resurrection is excusable here! just WAAAAW! shame a lot of the pics don't work anymore. think this just took 1st place in my interesting gs build list over the carbon tanked / supercharged one that never got finished over on customfigters.

any idea if this beastie is still going, its been further built or what the story is?

the early blade engine is swappable into the f2/f3 frame so i don't see why its not feasible in a gs frame. i don't think its a great swap on the 600 frame as all you end up with is a heavier blade... but yeah it should work on a gs frame lolz

[cbrfxr67]

hola iam,.....it's just sitting in the garage under a bike cover.  I haven't given up on it.  I started building a chevelle and put all bikes (sacrilege i know!) on the backburner.  When I get this turd chevelle rolling I want to get back on it and finish it.  Shep finished his in flying style before I was even close.  I kept having carb problems with the 600 set up and figured why stop, why not try to make the 929 engine with fi fit.  Got all that done and wiring quagmired me and KZ, and then chevelle so, uhm yea.  No excuses right!  Well thanks for zombiethread resurrection,...

[iamhiding]

hola iam,.....it's just sitting in the garage under a bike cover.  I haven't given up on it.  I started building a chevelle and put all bikes (sacrilege i know!) on the backburner.  When I get this turd chevelle rolling I want to get back on it and finish it.  Shep finished his in flying style before I was even close.  I kept having carb problems with the 600 set up and figured why stop, why not try to make the 929 engine with fi fit.  Got all that done and wiring quagmired me and KZ, and then chevelle so, uhm yea.  No excuses right!  Well thanks for zombiethread resurrection,...

hey hey cbr! you sir are epic! haha glad to hear it and yourself are still around. must be some sleeper... was going to ask how it was to ride but you won't ''really'' know if the carbs weren't quite right, those motors are epic in the cbr though, i'll be putting 38mm blade carbs into the f3 build sometime next year and I'm already running a 929 front end actually, the 330mm disks are nuts.

so... wait, you've actually squeezed the 929 engine in already? that is maaaaadness. i think some pics might be in order when you've got some spare time

[cbrfxr67]

Shep is epic ,....he got his rolling and going.  I just got a big puttering paperweight.  heheh    Still though i learned alot and had fun doing it.  The 929 engine is already in there.  I was routing wiring and complaining about the tail last as far as I remember.  Talking about it makes me want to start messing with it again. No no must finish chevelle first.

[Daeouse]

I'm absurdly late to this topic, and I wish the old pics still worked!!! The one completed pic with the 600 engine looked amazing! Can you post up some of those pics up again? Pretty please? With bacon sprinkles on top?

[cbrfxr67]

I saved some of Shep's pictures somewhere.  I have to figure out where I put them.

[iamhiding]

you're both a couple of nutters if you ask me haha I'm actually so pumped about this, its an utterly ridiculous swap.

have to ask are you planning on keeping it sleeperish in stock trim or are you going to get a decent set of forks and swingarm on it and make something mega?

[cbrfxr67]

I think it'll just come out however it comes out.  Definitely not stock looking.  I was thinking last night while welding on the floor pans that I can really do a better job fabbing on the bike since I have better tools to use.  My wife actually offered 'her' side of the garage and to leave her car outside so I could kickstart the project again. 

[steezin_and_wheezin]

Haha sounds like my furnace. Too many irons in there!! Stoked to see there's still hope to have her up and running. I'll have to dig back through and catch up. All I have to say is, bring back that sled headlight!! Loved the look of it

Good luck on the Chevelle, I'm currently swapping out my old subaru with a WRX power and drive train(like we didn't already have 7000 projects to be had). You have a project thread somewhere for your car?

[cbrfxr67]

Nothing on Chevelle steez.  Just working on it when I can.  My son went and bought a vstar 1100 and I took it out yesterday.  Took me hours to fall asleep last night fiddling ideas on the bike back n forth on the strings of my pea brain.  Dam it was fun to go ride. 

[Shepa]

Nothing much on this side of the Atlantic either.
The front end mod's been postponed once again  due to an cafe racer sideproject for a friend, but that's another story.

Just a couple of pics from couple o' days ago:

[cbrfxr67]

 

[Shepa]

Got the new muffler for 43€ at AliExpress, so why not take the picture of it, right?



And... installed a CBR600 rear shock.
You can't see it, but it's there, and I must say, way better than SV650's.



The photos are in B/W cause the bike's way too dirty for colour, LOL.

And... got myself a GoPro Hero4 Session, so hopefuly, I'll make some clips eventualy, at least for the project's 5th year anniversary.



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[cbrfxr67]

oooh ahhhhh 

[cbrfxr67]

[cbrfxr67]

[steezin_and_wheezin]

Happiness Level = A dancing Ron Swanson