You don’t need to touch the engine, stop being frivolous, they go for tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of miles. Just make sure the clutch and cam-chain tensioner is good, but I doubt you need to worry about this with so little miles. Same goes for valves. The K5 engine is a peach!
You’d get a better feeling by changing the chain, sprockets, cush drives, etc. Stuff that is a lot cheaper.
Also by the time you’ve added up the cost of all those new bearings, seals etc. I reckon you’ll find you’ve suddenly got an awful lot less budget to spend on the motor than you think… :w00t:
Jay the reason why I thought about looking at the engine now was because I’m likely to use the bike on track a lot after the work is complete and just thought better to start from a clean sheet, but you’re right about the motor on these bikes going on and on…
My clutch is no good though…It’s still doing that burr burr thing randomly when I do a hard take off from the lights…
Do you think I need an after market slipper clutch?
The juddering clutch doesn’t require an upgrade. It just needs adjusting. It’s a very simple affair. I wouldn’t think about spending money on the clutch, besides worn part replacement.
I had it adjusted twice, and then after that it would happen every now and then, but not to the extent where it would affect the launch.
Yeah it’s probably the best GSX-R 1K…I think it’s a bike I’ll keep…If I don’t kill it first…Hit a pot hole today while banked over in a corner and almost had the front tuck :w00t:
If you really want to tear the motor down, just blueprint it - you will notice the difference and it should improve reliability, especially with Suzuki’s tolerances…
and she will purrr for a long time…