Who has a DS650 that has bin conversed to a 1300cc gsxr 4 cylinder. How hard was it and do you like it. what did you have to do to it to do the conversion

 

no one has done this

 

i have seen them befor

 

Well i have seen a couple of guys who have done this but i forget the names, they did seem to work out good though.

 

I just helped my buddy throw a gixxer motor in a ds roller. Its not hard. Just very time consuming. You need to have access to welders, pipe benders and ban saws. Basically a complete shop. Lots of planning and fab work. I would say it took about 200 hours to complete. We took it to armagossa twice and he sold it. It was to ridiculous to ride. The most difficult part was fabbing the extended swing arm and getting proper alignment for the sprockets after flipping the drive so it was on the same side. The bike only weighed 20lbs more than a stock ds when it was done. The ds chassis was fine size wise to accomodate the inline four. He did weld in extra gussets for strength too. The job came out pretty clean.

 

what did you do to the swing arm and what motor did you use and why was it to ridiculous to ride????

 

the guy who built my bombusa said 200 hrs is a safe number. now sand blast the whole thing and power coat it all and reassemble. this is not couting the time to fab a custom gas tank, 12"over alum swing arm ect,ect. mine is very rideable, infact after racing anything in the park i can trail around for hours with my kids little 250ex and have just about the smoothest ride (long swing arm) i have ever experienced. build one you won't regret it.

p.s. yesterday i installed my new set of elka shocks, took it out behind the house and jumped it 3' off the snow banks onto flat ground without bottoming out, she's a rider "SWEET"