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Hey. I was wondering how many parts can swap over from a 89 fzr600 to a 93 because the 93 I have needs a lot of work. Thanks

mustangsrmine wrote:Hey. I was wondering how many parts can swap over from a 89 fzr600 to a 93 because the 93 I have needs a lot of work. Thanks

Check the on line parts fiche ?????

mustangsrmine wrote:Hey. I was wondering how many parts can swap over from a 89 fzr600 to a 93 because the 93 I have needs a lot of work. Thanks

It would be best to define "parts". A lot should swap over, but there were some differences between 89 and the other years.

The parts that I need is basically the whole front end, forks, fender, side plastics, front faring with the headlights, gauge cluster, fairing bracket, tail plastics, tail light, and probably more things but I haven't dug much further into it. I am new to rockets actually really new as in I never drove one but picked up a cheap wrecked one the 93.

Why don't you just ride the 89?

The motor blew up on the 89 and internally is junk its a bike that I found for sale as a parts bike so I am trying to make one bike out of two

In what state is the '89 chassis? It may be simpler to get the '89 chassis up to snuff, then swap the engine over.

Well how hard is it to swap the engines around? I have never done it on a bike and this is my first rocket so its even more of a learning curve.

It's not so much HARD, as involved - there is a crap load of stuff to disconnect and get out the way. Fairings, rad, fuel tank, airbox, carbs, exhaust, all the engine wires and all the throttle and choke cables have to be removed / displaced from BOTH bikes, both engines dropped, and the running engine put into the pretty chassis. At this point, you now get to put all the ancilliaries back on again. Yay!

With a friend, a manual, a quiet place to work and a case of beer, the first time you do it will probably be the work of two weekend afternoons.

You won't need much in the way of consumables; you'll need to drain the coolant, but draining the oil of the running engine is up to you. Draining the oil from the damaged engine is probably not a bad idea. The only parts that really need replacing are the exhaust gaskets, 4x 3YF-14613-01-00. The paranoid might want to lay in a supply of exhaust studs and nuts, as these occasionally require extreme measures to remove - 8x 90179-06499-00 (nuts) and 8x 90116-06437-00 (studs).

Have fun!