SV 650 Big Bore kits?

Did they ever make a curvey in 1000cc?

if i wanted the thou i'd of bought one. i like the way the 650 handles, the thou's heavier so it wont be the same, im looking for a bit more top end but keeping the caristeristics of the 650, and its always nice to see the guy on the GIXER thou's face when he realizes what he couldnt shake off, just imagine his face when you hammeder past him!!!!!

you wouldnt beat a Gixer Thou matey not on a SV1000 and certainly not on a 650 even with Mods unfortunatly our bikes are not good enough or remotely close enough spec wise to take on the gixer thou, its been voted best super bike again. .. . . . i want one
i was looking in to this too tho,
http://forums.sv650.org/showthread.php?t=85074 and to be honest everyone on here was right, you way as well get the thou or a completely different bike.
i dont plan on ever selling the SV as ive smashed it up 3 times now so i dont think i actually could.
But saying that, i called JHS Racaing and i got a quote to make my SV a 750cc with all parts and labour and new tyres and pretty much souping it up to the eyeballs with complete race parts and suspension would cost £4898.97
so that might be usefull to you.
my mind changed when i saw last years Daytona 675 in my dealer for £5799.00

[fizzwheel]

Originally Posted by liam_j_harris

if i wanted the thou i'd of bought one. i like the way the 650 handles, the thou's heavier so it wont be the same, im looking for a bit more top end but keeping the caristeristics of the 650, and its always nice to see the guy on the GIXER thou's face when he realizes what he couldnt shake off, just imagine his face when you hammeder past him!!!!!

I'm assuming your bikes standard still ? If so IMHO it'd be better to sort out the SV's suspension so that you make the most of what you've got rather than going nuts on an overbore.

Set of Springs and new front oil will sort the front end out. You can sort the rear shock out for reasonable money as well. If you really wanna go for it, look at doing the GSXR front end swap as then you'll get better suspension and better brakes to go with it.

Then if you want a bit more go, race system, K & N or the such like, if you've got a curvey do the cam swap from a pointy that should liberate some extra BHP and again for reasonable money.

Theres more knowledgable people on here than me, have a chat with Northwind, billy, 21quest et all.

Or just do what I did, save your money and buy a bigger bike

Seriously even with an 800CC overbore and a lot of work and cash, you're never going to waste a GSXR1000 or the such like in a staightline, but with the suspension and braking mods, and if you're a competant rider and he / she is not you'll have a lot of fun on twisty B roads.

I dont know your riding or bike history so apologies if this is teaching to suck eggs, or you've been down the bigger bike route already.

[northwind]

Incidentally, an 80bhp SV doesn't actually feel much different to a 67bhp SV (DJ numbers here), you just acclimatise to it. If I ride a standard one back to back with mine it's very obvious, but the rest of the time it just takes days before you get used to it. With mine, where it really feels different is the length of the power peak, the lack of high-rev falloff, and the low-end drivability, rather than the numbers. I stall standard SVs at every set of lights, because I forget you can't drive away at 2500rpm without a load of clutch But day to day I never think "Oh, you can really feel the extra power there" unless I'm chasing another SV.

So, don't tune one in an attempt to get it to rip your arms off, or to make it a different bike, you can't without huge work. But, if you want it to be a better SV, that's when it makes more sense. For me the SV motor's a great piece of work, if I wanted 100bhp I'd get another bike but I don't. If I wanted 90 I'd maybe do a big rebuild on the SV, but I don't see much point. If I could buy a high-spec SV with good suspension and just a little more overall usable power, I'd have just done that, but instead I built one. If you scratch me, underneath you'll find a sneaking suspicion that I should've got an RVF400

If you're racing it all bets are off, but most of us aren't, and don't confuse trackdays with racing... Oneof the biggest mistakes people tuning road bikes do is to look to the track and do what they do, it's not all transferrable or beneficial.

But, like Fizzwheel says, suspension first. I sort of assumed that anyone looking at a bigbore will already have done this, but I think when I was asking JHS for bigbore prices I probably hadn't

i want to get a gixxer 1000 but still keep my sv

Save your money and get one of these



http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/...t/mfbike21.xml

[northwind]

Yup, if there'd been one of those in 2005 I'd have one I suppose there's a fair chance that I still will. That pic of the white one's really unflattering, mind, looks kind of bitty and unfocussed. I'd have the headlight off it, raise the tail (or drop the front, in looks if not in geometry) R1 tail section maybe. CRG Lanesplitter bar-end mirrors to get rid of the ears. I reckon that's going to be huge in europe, that bike. And half of the ones in the UK will get flat Renthals, even if that makes it handle like ****.

Oh yes. Want one.

that would be a lot of fun ill get one of them as my fourth bike

Originally Posted by northwind

Oh yes. Want one.

Me too. I think they look very very cool.