My first ever street bike was one of these. Very smooth as far as two strokes go, especially when compared to my brothers RD 350.Feels like I'm just about off of my two-stroke bullpucky for now but here's another Suzuki, this time a GT550 Indy.
Great tanks on these and I've always loved the ram air cooling tin, but I have to wonder how well what I presume is still the 3-into-4 exhaust works, clean as it looks, without the crossover tubes.
They do have crossover tubes of sorts, but it's in the headers.
I distinctly remember seeing them closer to the head (perhaps US spec) and so I assumed that one didn't have them. I wonder what the logic was for having them closer to the head or closer to the expansion chambers. Then again I may just be misremembering, as I haven't seen one probably since I had an oil burner myself...close to 30 years ago.
Could be US spec. I know mine was like that because I stripped it down several times to decarbonise it, hone the bores and re-ring it.
Man decoking sucked. My Bridgestone never ran particularly well and probably could have done with more of a rebuild but breaking it down wasn't fun.
Sure looks to have none.Man decoking sucked. My Bridgestone never ran particularly well and probably could have done with more of a rebuild but breaking it down wasn't fun.
I'm probably going to spend more time on this because I vividly picture the combination of the ram air tin and higher crossovers. Looking for examples to affirm my recollection I did find this one that--unless I'm totally blind--lacks any kind of provision for equalizing gas pressure.
Limited as my knowledge of it all is, it does seem to be preferable to have it all happen closer to the ports so gases can have a longer run to the expansion chambers without disruption. I also think it may not be horrible to not have any equalization if the expansion chambers are tuned properly--which was one of those things that was so intriguing about the Suzuki Sebring and Indy 3-into-4s with the center port flowing into two smaller pipes.
