fzr or katana front end

the motors in and I was hoping to do a front and rear end conversion I have an 88 fzr 1000 parts bike as well as a 96 katana 750 .I am not really sure which way to go here but thought someone may have some input on which would be the better swap.Its a z1 with 1075 kit ,ported head ,z5 cams and 29 smoothbores.sounds killer.My buddy Mitch Howe did the motor and Mike Law from raceworks did the boring,any input would be surely appreciated,here is a pic..

sorry I have a hard time resizing pics,here is a pic of my 78 street bike as well. 1015 wiesco,gs1100 swinger,29mm smoothbores, dyna,gsxr rear.

nice.
either front end would work.the fzr may be closer right outta the box tho.because it was probably closer in weight than the kat.

here is a pic of a kz we done a front end conversion using a 700 katana front end.

ya that looks good,is that the swinger off the kat as well?

yessir.

i believe it was a 92/93 model.

leon

was it a bearing swap for the front and if I recall the swinger was a straight swap,correct me if I'm wrong,and thanks for the info.

i swapped the kz stem in to the katana triple.
i believe steel said that you can do a bearing swap.
i am a fan of the stem swap so that you just buy stock replacement bearings,races and seals and you don't have to remember what goofy bearings you used to make your schtuff work.

leon

ok, cool now I just got to figure out which swap to do and not get side tracked on other project bikes,lol.I think kawtoy did an fzr swap maybe he is around too.cheers

531blackbanshee wrote: i swapped the kz stem in to the katana triple.
i believe steel said that you can do a bearing swap.
i am a fan of the stem swap so that you just buy stock replacement bearings,races and seals and you don't have to remember what goofy bearings you used to make your schtuff work.

leon

I can't help it if I'm lazy!, I just blame it on the medications

Question do u think I can do this same swap for my 84 kz700?

Kevin

Revboyz wrote: Question do u think I can do this same swap for my 84 kz700?

Kevin

I did the 2000 Katana 750 swap using conversion bearings on a 1980 KZ750E, and it's probaly the same as your 700.

My lathe only cuts SAE threads, not metric, so I have been doing the conversion bearing swap. I have a set of metric transposing gears and the required banjo on order and they should be done the end of this month, so maybe I'll start making stems for my projects

do you have any advice on the gearing,with the kat swap?