rear shock change

[Nobbylad]

Originally Posted by DaveP

I was always under the impression that a shock of a gsxr would be an upgrade for me on my sv.... but looking at this list below then only one or two would benifit my needs.... basically if i want to stiffen the ride up from the stock sv shock i need to select something below the 2nd gen shock...

Or am i getting something totally wrong. Sorry if this sounds dumb but i am still learning with all this stuff.


YEAR MOTORCYCLE LENGTH SPRING
===== ========= ===== =====

01-03 GSXR600 325.5mm 325#

96-99 GSXR750 345mm 375#

97-00 GSXR600 375mm 375#

00-03 GSXR750 325mm 400#

04 GSXR750 332.5mm 408#

04 GSXR600 332.5mm 425#

01-02 GSXR1000 329.5mm 430#

03-04 SV650 330mm 430# <<<==== stock 2nd gen...

05 GSX-R 1000 332.5mm 450#

03-04 GSXR1000 332.5mm 480#

99-02 SV650 337mm 510# <<<====stock 1st gen

04-07 ZX10R 338mm 540#

03-04 ZX6R(636) 340mm 540#

99-03 GSXR1300(Busa) 330mm 700#



Dave

Any more additions to the list i.e. GSXR1000 K8/9 etc?

Originally Posted by xXBADGERXx

All in all it should take you about an hour to hour and a half to do

Are those animal hours?

I've been fitting a K4 750 Gixer shock to my K4 SV tonight and after 3.5 hours I'm still not finished. Granted I did have all the rear shock linkage off to clean and re-grease the bearings. The pain in the backside bit is removing the undertray so that you can make a decent job of trimming it to clear the new shock. Now all that remains to be done is to figure out how to support the battery to stop it resting on the shock reservoir and then how to get the seat re-fitted now that the battery sits higher up. Has anyone had to cut plastic from the underside of the seat? Battery could go on it's side I suppose, but the ECU would need resiting then.

[Bibio]

Originally Posted by madness

Are those animal hours?

Now all that remains to be done is to figure out how to support the battery to stop it resting on the shock reservoir

Has anyone had to cut plastic from the underside of the seat?

scavenge a bit of polystyrene. local chippy (fish box) building site (cavity insulation) kitchen fitter/joiner (appliance packaging) or a bit of 3 by 2 and shape it.

no. you just need to cut down the foam block...

[CheGuevara]

Originally Posted by Nobbylad

Any more additions to the list i.e. GSXR1000 K8/9 etc?

Here's my personal list. Highlighted bits were just me narrowing down my best options (for a pointy) with regards to maintaining similar length and an appropriate rate. I decided on, and used the 05/06 ZX6RR shock (I'm 6'4" and ~240lbs + gear) -which seems to work well.

Originally Posted by madness

Are those animal hours?

I've been fitting a K4 750 Gixer shock to my K4 SV tonight and after 3.5 hours I'm still not finished.

I`m a time served fitter mate so I tend to be a tad quicker than most on getting stuff apart and putting it safe so that it goes back together in order , I`ve started jobs for mates and then sent them off to put the kettle on and they have come back with cups of Tea and the exclamation "Bloody Hell mate you got that off quick"

[_Stretchie_]

On this note, does anyone know of where to get reconditioned units??

I'm after getting a cheap as chips shock for the CBR400. I know you can swap them for a CBR600 shock which would give you a remote reservoir but then you have to cut a notch from the shock linkage to access one of the adjusters and move the coolant bottle up past the headstock racing styleee to accomodate for the remote adjuster.

But thought that someone must do a nice aftermarket shock for the CBR that just slots straight in. So I want a camels conkers shock for about £50

; )

can you upgrade a curvy with one of these listed shock without having to cut back the battery box?

[northwind]

I don't think so. Well, some people have done outlandish relocations, bending the box downwards instead, but it's really not a better solution. But don't worry, the cut is really pretty trivial

Finished my installation, apart from reconnecting the battery. I made an aluminium strap which goes under the battery and holds it a few millimetres above the shocks reservoir. The strap is pop-rivetted to the subframe. The battery now sits high enough to not only require the foam block to be removed from the underside of the seat, but I also had to hacksaw the two rectangular lumps off the bottom of the seat.
Hopefully should get out for a test ride over the next couple of days.

Don't really fancy cutting it about to fit a new shock!
Any alternative?