hi, i am wanting to up grade my gs 500f 2006s rotors. what would be a good upgrade?
Brake Rotors?
It depends what the point of the upgrade is, if its performance then your just wasting money. A good set of pads is far better than a "new" rotor. Unless your rotor is warped, severely grooved, or below minimum thickness your just wasting your money.
If its for looks, then just get a fancy EBC Contour rotor and call it good. ITs going to cost you like $270 or something crazy, but it looks cool. :dunno_black:
my reasoning for upgrading the brakes is not for looks, but for performance, i am in the process of doing a custom turbo setup and i am needing to upgrade both suspension and brakes.
i am very very familiar with the performance aspect of things and by far familiar with turbos but this is my first in bringing this knowledge into a bike, and a gs500 for that matter. that is why i am looking for your guys help that have experience wiith these bikes as to where i can get these parts. and if i cant find them then i will fabricate what i need to. thanks guys
best upgrade are a set of Katana 600 forks with a dual brake setup. Otherwise good set of EBC HH pads is about the best you can do on the stock setup. You could goto a Nissin 4 pot caliper and make a bracket to attach it to the stock GS forks.
In my opinion, a turbo motorcycle is a really bad idea. They tried it in the 80's and ditched the effort fairly quickly as the power delivery is way way too peaky for use on a motorcycle. Some other have done turbo GS's, but I rarely see them stick around with them for a while.
Good Luck though!
thanks for all of the ideas, only one last question, is the Katana 600 change over a matter of changing out tubes or is it a full triple tree swap? & what year would i need to get?
Easiest way is to, as stated, upgrade the whole front end...but I'll note that the stock brakes on the GS500 will far outperform the engine's wildest dreams of potential.
Quote from: Montague on December 16, 2008, 07:01:39 AM
thanks for all of the ideas, only one last question, is the Katana 600 change over a matter of changing out tubes or is it a full triple tree swap? & what year would i need to get?
Check the Wiki:
http://cgi.stanford.edu/~sanjayd/gs500/Upgrades/FrontForks (http://cgi.stanford.edu/~sanjayd/gs500/Upgrades/FrontForks)