Unfortunately the way I have decided to run the water system on the LR1 means that the standard Hayabusa water inlet is not only a different diameter to my pump but points in exactly the wrong direction! However, when I asked about any modifications to the water system when running a dry sump I was told to just remove the thermostat and constantly run the pump.Now, perhaps the easiest thing to do would have been to do just that, remove the thermostat and use a 180 degree samco pipe and then a reducer. But that would have been too easy for me! So I decided to just make a new fixture, but to use the original seal, as if its works for them there’s no reason it wont work for me! (I hope).
So I turned up a fitting, which I promptly forgot to take a picture of before putting it onto the rotary table, but hopefully you can see the ‘rib’ I added on the bottom of the fixture as seen in the pic above, to stop the pipe slipping off. But in an effort to lose weight, make it look nicer and most importantly fit, I had to remove some of the external meat but to leave on the mounting tags…So onto the rotary table. However out rotary table is a two man lift, but after that was sorted Iremoved the required material and hey presto a nice new straight fitting instead of the angled one that is standard on the busa. You would have thought that Suzuki would have designed it to fit an LR1 in their wisdom!!!! LOL
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