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12-02-2008, 08:30 AM
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Congratulations RoyalPane!
Year: 2003
Model: Suzuki GSXR
Eng size: 600-Turbo
Pipe: Hand fabricatec
Seat: Chuey's Customs... Leather and dyed alligator over gel seat
Wheels: Billet RC Componants
Accessories/other mods...
Engine = TBR turbo kit, hand fabricated intake plenum, one off hand fabricated exhaust, ported an polished head, TBR mapped and tuned PC III, Upgraded high flow fuel pump, drag race setup engine kill switch and tether.
Body = Full custom paint using PPG and House of Kolor paint, painted backside of all fairings and stock mirrors, hand pinstriped around the graphics with a matching helmet, and full custom undertail with integrated tail light and turn signals, smoked DB windscreen, dual H4 HID conversion, custom upholstered seat using died orange alligator skin and leather, Hotbodies racing flush mount signals, custom orange gauge face, powder coated rear master cylinder, real carbon fiber intake ducts.
Polished = Full frame, swingarm custom fabricated +8”, subframe, front rotors, custom CNC milled clutch and brake levers with painted centers, rear sets, passenger pegs and brackets, exhaust, intake plenum, charge pipe, RC Component Fluid billet wheels and hubs, axel hardware, sprocket specialties 530 chain conversion sprockets, rear wave rotor, brake fluid covers, upper and lower triple trees, strut with powder coated orange spring, all mounting hardware.
Chrome = upper fairing brace, front and rear calipers, kickstand and hardware, gas cap, frame sliders, license place bracket, bar ends, clutch cover, stator cover, front sprocket cover, 530 chain, brake lines, boost gauge bracket, fully adjustable lowering links and oil filter.
I bought this bike bone stock about 4 years ago with the intentions of using it to save money on gas back and forth to college. I chose a 600 because being young that’s all I could afford insurance on. Once I began to do all the small modifications, the addiction took off. Blinkers and a windshield turned into a full exhaust and power commander. Polished levers and bar ends turned into a fully polished frame and swing arm. And riding with guys on bigger 1000’s and busa’s meant I needed something to keep up and so came the turbo kit.
Making a little over 90hp to the wheel from the factory its now upwards of 145hp with a modest 6lbs of boost and pump gas. With the t25 kit, custom intake manifold, upgrades to the fuel pump, different sprockets and a good sticky tire keeping up wasn’t a problem any more.
Once I got to that point it was clear that there was going to be no end in sight and my money saving bike was going to drain my wallet. Being a full time student and having a part time job there was other priorities that had to come first… like food. I ended up looking for cheaper ways and buying used parts, rebuilding broken or discarded parts out of “the box” in the garage that had all the parts taken off other bikes I had worked on for side jobs. And the best resource for any builder on a budget… eBay!
I didn’t have an unlimited budget like most full custom bikes built by shops, and definitely had limited resources when it came to tools and space to work but I made do. MirrorLook Customs played a huge part in getting the bike to where its at with the polish work and the paint job. It’s a solid deep orange with House of Kolor graphics, and then hand pinstriped in yellow around the edges with a helmet to match. The chrome and polish work is second to none and holds up on a bike that sees a lot more than the inside of a trailer.
Click here for more pictures. (http://www.gsxr.com/showpost.php?p=701915&postcount=5)