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How to "fit an R6 shock into a slabside GSXR" - Submitted by Damige (via BigRedBus from Old Skool Suzuki)

Since rear-ends are the hot topic of the moment I thought I would share my experiences of putting an R6 shock in my 1100 Slabby. Here's a pic of the R6 unit bottom eye. And here it is stripped, I left the bearing race in for reasons that I will explain later - the two rubber seals from the R6 shock need to be kept. Here are the parts I used for the conversion. the two metal spacers from the slabby shock, and the bottom bearing from the standard slabby unit. Also the rubber seals from the R6 shock. The top mount of the R6 shock goes straight in the 1100 frame as this pic shows. I had a spare 1100 linkage I used to measure how much to grind off the R6 shock. ("had" because it's now promised to Brian). About 2 or 3mm either side. And here's the reason I left the bearing race in - it happens to be the exact width needed to grind down the bottom eye. So leaving it in works as a handy guide. Once the bottom eye is ground down to size, you can press out the bearing race. The race needs to be ground down now, to make a spacer for the bottom bearing from the slabby shock, as it's smaller than the eye in the R6 unit. Grind it down so that it's the exact width of the bearing from the slabby shock (no wider, or the seals won't fit). Here's the R6 bearing race pressed back into the bottom eye, note the space either side to allow the seals to fit. I assembled all the parts and it now fits my 1100 frame like a glove