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Hello, everyone! I was wondering if anyone has information if a late 1980s gsxr front fairing and headlight would fit a 1990s gsxr bike. I really like the look of two separate headlights and how it looks flat in the front.

I have a 1993 gsxr 750 and the front fairing i fell inlove with is the 1988 gsxr
 

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Funny you should ask. I’m in the middle of a retro-mod with my 1992, converting it over to a 1989 body. The thing is, the frame is the same from 1988 to 1992. Thus the conversion is simpler.

The frame changed for 1993 with the addition of water cooling. I don’t know if the steering head is the same from 1992 to 1993.

That’s really the important part as the upper fairing stay needed to mount the 88-89 headlight bucket has to be able to mount to the steering head.

If it will the conversion will be fairly simple. Find a headlight bucket and upper fairing stay, mount it up and then it’s just a matter of getting the matching plastic/fiber glass.

Your side plastics will not match so essentially you’d need the whole body aside from the tail end. The parts are available aftermarket from Airtech
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Good luck with your conversion journey. Mine has only just started but I have all I need to do the conversion….though I will be buying all new body work for a 1989 GSXR750/1100 as my 1992 body requires too much work to convert it over….and I’m going with the solo seat tail end anyway.

My conversion is being documented in the “Builder’s Corner” thread titled “project beginnings” if you wanna see where I’m at
 

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Definitely going to follow! I will hold off on that conversion then because its bigger undertaking than i thought. Probably another option is to create a copy of the front fairing using fiberglass and just get everything to line up.
 

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YellowSub is right. You will need the correct model stay to make the front faring work. I found that even between 89 and 91 things were different enough that modifying tabs or fabricating mounting pints would be necessary to use the tail section.

Fabricating a copy from scratch is gonna take a ton of skill and work. You may be better off to buy a set of track plastics for it and modifying them for the lights.
 
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There is not a great solution for retaining the plastics of the 93 body and melding it with the upper fairing of an 88-89 body.

The thing is, The GSXR changed from 89 to 90 and again from 92 to 93. Of those, the most drastic was the 92 to 93. The frame changed, the engines got water cooling and the body changed from a 5 piece front body to a 3 piece front body.

The head light was mostly the same from 90 to 95. The “capsule” type headlight required more stand off from the steering head tube to fit. The 88-89 head light bucket is flatter and required less clearance.

Suzuki simply made a couple of aluminum brackets that bolt to the steering head tube and the upper fairing stay to create the additional room. Hence, bolting an 88-89 upper stay on a 90-92 frame is plug & play. Even the electrical uses the same connectors etc.

While I’ve worked on a 93, I didn’t do anything extensive enough to comment on whether Suzuki went the same route with regards to the stay-steer tube arrangement or if it is all completely different. I recall it being different but how much so I no longer remember.

If you can sort the stand off issue out, you may be able to just trim the fiber glass upper to mate to the lower seamlessly. The major difference is the 88-89 upper extends down and fairly far back to the at least the front of the valve cover. The 93 plastics have a curved 90 degree-ish cut out that is filled with the side plastics.


You can see what I mean on the pic above. The lower edge of the upper is relatively straight and extends down and back towards the tank.

Compare that to the side plastic of a 93-95 below. Evident from the shape that they will not mate up at their respective edges. However, there is enough room on the 88-89 upper to trim down to mate to the 93-95 sides.
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Not saying you won’t have to fab a filler panel or 2 to make the join look seamless but it’s the best solution I can come up with for you.
 
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