I wonder what the differences were between the GT380 and the GT550 motors. It might be only bigger barrels and pistons on the same bottom end. The Japs did a lot of that in the 70s, even Ducati did it with the 250/350/450 Desmo.
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I wonder what the differences were between the GT380 and the GT550 motors. It might be only bigger barrels and pistons on the same bottom end. The Japs did a lot of that in the 70s, even Ducati did it with the 250/350/450 Desmo.
im pretty sure the 550 s bottom end is bigger physically plus it had a starter motor mounted under the engine and the 380 has asix speed box 550 has 5 speed
the good thing tho is that all the triple suzys use piston sizes similar to the singles
hence the weird capacitys ie 380 being 3 125s and 550 being 3 185s so the later TS pistons should fit up to the water cooled era GT 250 pistons fit a 380 also
...oh and if you are handy with a mill you can fit reed valve blocks and enjoy much more torque better fuel economy plus a reasonable increase in power ..mated with a decent set of period Allspeed spannies and some mild porting she'll likely see about 40hp+
Ok. Donk is on the bench for cleaning and stripping. There is some SERIOUS shit collected under the carbs and airbox. I took off the oil pump and oil line covers to have a look about. This is one dirty girl !!
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Yeuk. When you're ready mate give me a call and I'll give yer crabs the U/S treatment if you want
and other engine bits and pieces....gearbox, barrels, crank, clutch, etc
Sounds good to me Simon old boy. The carbs are propper gopping and will need a full rebuild and new jets etc. Was thinking of soda blasting the barrels. do you think the U/S would be as good or better?
I've just glass bead blasted my RS flatties and they've come up great. U/S cleaning doesn't necessarily make them beautiful but it does make them clean,IE the U/S cleaning doesn't necessarily remove rust, oxidation or imperfections but the glass bead blasting will do most of that.
I'm going to put my carbs back into the U/S cleaner to make sure any errant glass bead is cleaned out
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Okie Dokie, I'll blast them then bring them to your house with a couple of bottles and we can shoot the shit while the cleaner does its thing.
Sounds good to me matey
vapor blasting is where its at boys and girls :-)
Cant wait to hear that triple burble nice one
Most of the small fuel / oil lines are pretty much stuffed, gone brittle over time. Anyone know where I can get some generic tubing to replce them, (Jimmi), without having to track down some OEM stuff from Suzuki?
Note: Maybe I should have measured them before asking stoopid questions, probably readily available.
I'm likely to be putting in an order with these lot soon http://www.allensperformance.com/index.html if you want I can get some tubing from them for you
Let me know if you want me to strip the carbs down for you b4 cleaning.
Been cleaning about 2kg of shit from the block, sump and cooling fins. It's looking a monumental fuck load better already.
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wow... looks surprisingly good considering the amount of shit it was covered in.
That wasn't shit it was preservative. Just like peat bogs :rolleyes: