Thanks. Very helpful.
I was in the US this week and for some reason GTAM gets blocked by a lot of ISP's because of a "security risk". It was even blocked in the Air Canada Lounge. I couldn't reply
I have a RZ350 frame with a FZ600 swingarm that's been lying in the garage for a few years. I'm going to dust it off as a winter project. I wanted to do a Suzuki VJ22 suspension swap but by the time you ad everything up the total comes to around £2000 + shipping from the UK. Its a little rich for my blood so I started to look for something else
The ninja forks will swap in with just a spacer and a bearing conversion.
Based on the 226mm above, I'll have to remove about 3mm from the ninja rear spacers at both sides to fit in the swingarm. of course I'll need to get the sprockets aligned as well.
So why do this? It didn't come with forks and its almost impossible to get a good used set from an RZ, plus the 17 wheels provide a better choice of rubber, a primary reason why they do the VJ22 swap in the UK. I know the Ninja fork is not the best but its better that the RZ and I can add some racetech emulators and springs, and the single brake disk is as good as the twin disks on the RZ.
The trail will end up at about 94mm the RZ was ~97mm from the factory so it should still be quite stable
I've seen a lot of conversions with 120 fronts and 160 rears. They look really big for the bike and I think the 110/140 combo will be a nice compromise.
Thanks Again
Edit: Both axles are the same diameter so no fooling around with bearings or swingarm machining