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Got some GSX-R brakes, just need the brackets now

Originally Posted by Flamin_Squirrel

Got some GSX-R brakes, just need the brackets now

I've got a set, not fitting them as selling the SV.

PM me if interested, I've got the calipers and a set of HEL braided hoses with all the banjos and washers if needed.

Well I've just discovered that there's an extra lug on the pointy for a speedo cable retaining bolt. Ergo, they wont fit on an SV650 K3 or onwards.

Well, I'm ****ed off.

Originally Posted by Flamin_Squirrel

Well I've just discovered that there's an extra lug on the pointy for a speedo cable retaining bolt. Ergo, they wont fit on an SV650 K3 or onwards.

Well, I'm p*ssed off.

Cut it off with a dremel.

If you need to reattach at a lter date use some JB Weld paste which will hold it.

Its not a load bearing bolt hole and only holds a cable flat. You could cut it neatly to allow you to use caliper adaptors, and so when re attched with OEM calipers no-one would now.

Would SRAD brake calipers work as well? I'm having a hard time to find some good 01-03 GSX-R calipers, but I did find some SRAD calipers. I know that the mounting points are 90mm apart from eachother instead of 62mm.

Originally Posted by Knaapie

Would SRAD brake calipers work as well? I'm having a hard time to find some good 01-03 GSX-R calipers, but I did find some SRAD calipers. I know that the mounting points are 90mm apart from eachother instead of 62mm.

If you make them yourself: YES

I bought some of a CBR600 K3 and will (try) to make them myself, if I have time...

Ok, thanks! So you've got some black Nissin calipers? Or did you buy the gold ones from a RR?

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They are, but the standard forks can't even deal with the standard 2-pots. The limiting factor on a standard SV's brakes is the suspension, not the brakes, IMO- the excessive dive and braking instability reduces the bike's ability to use the braking power. But with an appropriately sprung and damped front end, it'll be different.

(though then I'd like to point out that the cost of rebuilding a standard SV front end to a decent quality, and then these brackets, and the calipers, will most likely be more than a GSXR front end swap)[/quote]agreed main problem with the brakes on a sv is the suspension also fitting larger calipers to the curvy model and running them in trackdays will bend the forks they are just not capable of handling larger calipers

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Originally Posted by mart

also fitting larger calipers to the curvy model and running them in trackdays will bend the forks they are just not capable of handling larger calipers

I'm so sure that this isn't the case that I'm prepared to bet a whole scottish pound note on it... Total power's not the issue, you get no mure actual brute braking force from GSXR calipers than you do with SV bits (when they work). SV calipers will lock any tyre in the dry, the limit of braking force is traction not brakes. It's what you can do with it, and how it delivers it, that makes all the difference.

i just agreed with your comment about the sv suspenshion and brake calipers with a note that running a bike set up for trackdays/racing which would include having dot/slick tires on in combination with larger 4 pot calipers which like it or not have a different force and action will distort the crapy forks that were fitted to the curvy models remember two pistons pushing equily on the disc not two pistons pulling the caliper to the disc agreed that the sv calipers have the same instant bite but would then fade were as the gsxr calipers would continue to gather power