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looking for cover, contact breaker part# 11381-01d10

Started by clucas, May 19, 2022, 03:55:40 PM

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clucas

need the cover and emblem for right side of gs500e

ShowBizWolf

Where are you located in the world? Are you looking for new or used?
Superbike bars, '04 GSXR headlight & cowl, DRZ signals, 1/2" fork brace, 'Busa fender, stainless exhaust & brake lines, belly pan, LED dash & brake bulbs, 140/80 rear hoop, F tail lens, SV650 shock, Bandit400 hugger, aluminum heel guards & pegs, fork preload adjusters, .75 SonicSprings, heated grips

The Buddha

I do believe Clucas is in the US, but also a works at a motorcycle performance shop.

Anyway Clucas - The stock ignition cover is a total piece of garbage. There have been people here (yours truly and Chuck81 I think) who have made them. Mine was boxy and angular very industrial looking. Chuck made a much more stock like nicer and cleaner one. Look for it, he may have em, or its 5" aluminum round that's machined up for it. You may be able to make it if you have access to a lathe.

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clucas

I forgot I posted this but I bought an oem part on ebay. I wish I would have read your response first lol. I might have to take you up on that offer in a couple of weeks. Also I live in the U.S and I work at powersportsnation in Nebraska. We don't build any 4 stroke bike engines but I'm able to order parts for them from a few of our distributors. We rebuild mostly atv and utv engines. Alot of guys there ride though and I've been wanting to get into riding for a long time and I love the gs500 so far. The last guy didn't take the best care of it but I'm getting ready to do a carb rebuild and I bought a stock airbox because it had a k&n filter on it. I got new carb boots and a new clutch basket, springs, disc's, and a clutch cable I'm putting on this weekend. I haven't done alot of mechanical work except for engines and internal and external transmissions so I have some questions for sure. I've changed the front and rear sprocket and put a new chain on and cleaned up the bike pretty good and it seems to run good besides the vacuum leak and the suspension bottoms out ALOT lol

Bluesmudge

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Sounds like you are on the right track! That part and many others should still be available through Suzuki.

For the suspension, the GS500 was always under sprung for many people. If you weigh under 160 lbs its fine but above that its worth putting in stiffer fork springs from Sonic or Racetech and swapping the rear shock (R6 shock if you are 160 - 200 lbs) or Katana 600/750 shock if you are 190 + lbs. Search the forum, there is lots of info on suspension.

ShowBizWolf

Superbike bars, '04 GSXR headlight & cowl, DRZ signals, 1/2" fork brace, 'Busa fender, stainless exhaust & brake lines, belly pan, LED dash & brake bulbs, 140/80 rear hoop, F tail lens, SV650 shock, Bandit400 hugger, aluminum heel guards & pegs, fork preload adjusters, .75 SonicSprings, heated grips

clucas

Thanks yall I appreciate it and I'll check out the wiki for sure

The Buddha

IMHO, after 10 yrs and numerous fiddlings with the Kat FE I installed on mine, and I have run progressives before on several bikes including a GS, the KatFE vs stock forks modified is day and night. The Kat FE is so far far far superior. Those springs in stock forks are overly stiff and chattery, you lose some feel under braking as well. But of course you lose a lot of that sag and dive which is good, but IMHO not enough value for the $$ especially if you have access to a machine and welding shop.

Now it does need its share of light machining and some very very creative bracket making. I am running the stock GS ignition cylinder in the stock location and it works as a steering lock. I am running the stock gauges with them mounted in the stock grommets in the stock location. I am running the stock GS headlight in the stock location with custom made triangles mounted on stock ears. I made aluminum 7/8th handle tubes ~1" longer so the brake banjo wont hit the dash.
I still have a few little things to do. Like the brake splitter needs a spacer so it can be bolted onto the underside of the triple, and some small tweaks.
Now the closest to this on a GS has been my first GS that had lindemann reworked forks and that bike already had clipon's (89).
Effectively the Kat FE gives you clipon's and a beefy fork. that is soft and compliant good feel while still being stiff enough to reduce flex and the twin brakes yea much better under braking and they also wear far far far far less (of course there is 2 of em, so need to replace = you're out 2X the $$ but you may need to replace it 1/8th as much. If you open the GS caliper with say 10K miles you'd find 90% of the wear is on the static pad. AKA that's where its constantly rubbing against the rotor. On a DOP kat caliper there's no static pad. And there's 2 of those.
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Bluesmudge

Alternatively, if you can find or make an adapter for a 4 piston caliper you can swap that in without changing anything else and get a lot of the brake feel that the GS is missing. The stock caliper just feels "on" or "off." It doesn't give good feedback to the rider.

I'm sure the Kat front end is even better but for a lot less work you get a pretty good front end with springs, fork oil, and a Hayabusa caliper.

The Buddha

Busa calipers are radials not axial, not sure if any of them were axial. Maybe the first gen ??
You're better off trying to adapt a pre 96 GSXR750 caliper or a katana caliper. You need bolts running parallel to the axle (I think its called axial) not perpendicular. The axial ones can be adapted with a milling machine if you have access to one of those.
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