davidimurray

Hello Everyone

For various reasons my SV hasn't seen much use the past few years and has had to live outside. Now i've moved house and work has settled down I'm planning to give the bike a good clean up / upgrade this winter.

I won't go into all the boring details but I am going to do a suspension upgrade. GSXR rear shock is sat on the shelf in the garage ready to be installed so now it's time to decide what to do to the front.

Current thinking is to go for Debrix emulators (gutted I missed the group buy!) but I have a few questions I was wondering if the forum could help me with :-

1) Are new front springs required for the emulator. And if not how much of a difference will new ones make? Racetech says 0.9 for my 13 1/2 stone

2) What fork oil / weight is reccomended for the the setup with emulators?

3) What height should the oil be filled to with this the emulator setup.

4) As far as I can understand from reading all the posts, steps required for installation are :-
a) emulators to be screwed down 2.5 turns
b) ring to be made to hold emulators central (I have a pointy)
c) trim down spacer by height of emulator body
d) drill out lower damping rod holes to 10mm
e) plug upper rebound holes
Any steps i've missed?

Thanks for the help.

Cheers

Dave