SUZUKI 500 FANS – THE T500/5 COBRA The SUZUKI COBRA THE BIKE WHICH COULDN’T BE BUILT! The bike which couldn’t be built – the Suzuki 500cc Dual Stroke”. So went the proud boast of the Suzuki advertisements of the late 60’s. For a buying public conditioned to two-stroke BSA Bantams and Villiers engined motorcycles, the …
SUZUKI 500 FANS – T500 and GT500 The road machines – the T500 and the GT500 THE MIGHTY SUZUKI TITAN THE BRUTE WITHOUT BULK! The Suzuki Titan was a shot in the arm for lovers of fast and loud motorcycles who could overcome the blanket dislike of two-strokes that was common at the time. As …
Getting into racing a Suzuki 500 The start of something big TITAN RACING – POST CLASSIC ON A BUDGET The Suzuki 500 twin in its various guises as a Cobra, Titan or GT500 serves as a useful basis for the construction of a very competitive post classic road racing machine. The classic and post-classic racing …
SUZUKI 500 FANATICS The factory racers – the TR500 – Air-cooled and water-cooled 1971 Daytona TR500The TR500 found its origins in… Boulogne, France. Pierre Bonnet was the French Suzuki distributor and the works team indeed was based there for their first serious onslaught on the Grand Prix world in 1962. By 1967 Jacques Roca, a …
The Cobra or T500/5 – 1967/69 T500II – 1969/70 T500III – 1970 T500R – 1971 T500J – 1972 T500K – 1973 T500L – 1974 (pic thanks to Don Leeson T500M – 1975, correctly identified thanks to Don Leeson GT500A – 1976 GT500B – 1977
Suzuki GT/T500 engine tune-up and maintenance details Carburetor Carburetor specs T500III, R T500J T500K, L, M, GT500A, B Carburetor VM32SC VM32SC VM32SC Main jet 150 150 97.5 Needle jet P-5 P-5 (right) P-4 (left) P-4 Needle (last no. indicates needle clip position counting from top groove 5FP8-3 5FP8-3 5FP17-3 Pilot jet 30 30 30 Throttle …
Suzuki GT/T500 torque settings Item Quantity kg cm lb ft Front axle nut 1 650 47 Fork lower triple clamp fixing bolt 2 200 14 Steering stem head fitting bolt 3 250 18 Handlebar clamp bolt 4 130 9.5 Spark plug 2 200 14 Cylinder head nuts long 8 350 25 Cylinder head bolts short …
SUZUKI 500 FANATICS PEI Troubleshooting I’m no expert on electrics, but I get a lot of questions on GT500 electronic ignitions. I’ve found it hard to find anything on GT500 PEI systems. These pages are about the GT250N or X7 PEI. I imagine that they are very similar. Ignition system – no …
Suzuki T500 gearbox oil level modification The most requested page in Suzuki 500 history! The following pics demonstrate how the lower crankcase on a pre-1973 T500 needs to be modified to increase the amount of gearbox oil that actually stays in the gearbox. This is what will happen if you don’t keep your gearbox level …
Some old shots of Muzza’s Titan racers Muzza Titan 500 No. 189 to the left, away in a cloud of Silkolene Genuine CR750 Honda alloy tank (worth a mint) and a Bromlech 2 into 1 pipe with a Femsa racing ignition, went well and was great to ride. Pulled like a train. Brain Ferguson …
Hottting up the T500 with Ron Grant Willie Hardin from the US Suzuki Racing Team checks the tuning on a T500 Titan Page 2 Ron Grant shares his tuning secrets Over the past few years a multitude of Suzuki 500s have been sold to a vast cross section of riders, the majority of which were …
Muzza’s T500 Project Bike A new project to lay around the shed for years no doubt. Anyway let’s see what happens. Firstly, what seat shall I use? Ducati? Universal? Suzi TR500? Classic Yamaha?
Getting a head (or two) by Glen Morgan from New Zealand The stock T500 head is actually a good design for its purpose, but it is a compromise between production costs and performance. The stock head is a shallow section of a hemisphere on top of a low perpendicular wall. Its advantages are that it …
Eric Kalamaja’s Suzuki 500 Date: Sat, 17 May 1997 From: “Eric F. Kalamaja” <sundialm@iag.net> Reply-To: sundialm@iag.net Organization: Sundial Moto Sports Subject: Another T500 Photo</sundialm@iag.net> Hello Murray, Here is one from Daytona 96 3 days after I crashed it at Roebling Road, Savannah, Georgia at 110 miles an hour in practice after one of the british bikes blew …
SUZUKI 500 FANATICS Chris Bradley builds a T500 racer Chris Bradley built a race 500 from a heap of T500 parts. His experience was published in Classic Motorcycle Mechanics in their February 1999 issue. Chris is still living off the proceeds from writing that article and plans a trip into the heart of …
A few pics of the 1974 T500 I built a few years ago. Sadly now sold. It was basically in good condition when I bought it as an American import. All of the chrome was in good condition and it mostly needed only a good clean. Engine was really good, even the piston rings were not …
Andrew Holley’s Suzuki 500 Early History: The bike was bought new by my brother in 1971 as a T500J, after losing his drivers licence for the usual teenage stupidity, he sold it and then I bought it back in Jan 1975. Straight away it gained expansion chambers and clip ons plus home made rearsets. In …
Kiwi Glen Morgan has subjected the process of building expansion chambers for the 500 Suzuki to close scrutiny. Read on …. By Glen Morgan In the process of working on my own T500 project I’ve met a few others with similar intentions. The exhaust system seems to have presented a problem for a few people. …
Flexi Flyer: T-500 Vintage Roadracer Project – text by Kris Bernstein Applying state of the art technology to new equipment results in varying degrees of improvement. Applying similar technology to old equipment gives it a new’lease on life. Such is the case in preparing a vintage roadracer, as in this example the Suzuki T-500 Titan. …
T500 Suzuki racing tips courtesy Allan Greening 1. Don’t grind transfer ports. Just work out how much you want to raise the port and machine that amount off the top of: the barrel and add a spacer under the barrel the same amount. You now find that the exhaust port does not need so much …
T500 Suzuki racing tips courtesy Rob Greenhill (in response to Chris Bradley sending Rob the race prep tips from this web site) Dear Chris Many thanks for the paperwork, it’s very interesting, especially the info, on the factory racers, which extends our knowledge a bit. Mr.Barnard’s ideas on race preparation generally agree with what we …
Suzuki 500 across the Nullarbor in 1973 From Perth to Canberra – over 2,500 miles, including unsealed roads across the vast, dry and empty Nullarbor Plain (from latin “null arbor” ie no trees) Titan Suzukis on the vast and empty Nullarbor Plain (before the road was sealed) Southern Cross Bullabulling Lake Lefroy Fraser Range Cocklebiddy …
I had forgotten I even had these pictures of me riding the Woodley framed TR500 replica at Wanneroo Raceway in Western Australia (pre digital cameras and rare that pictures were taken). cheers Muzza Copyright reserved: Murray Barnard 1997
TR500 Suzuki water-cooled. Seen at Suzuka 25 May 1997 Photos from Suzuka Race Circuit courtesy Toshihiko Suzuki of Lump Proof Japan Classic Racing Motorcycles “My name is Clive Strugnell, from South Africa. From 1973 to 1986 I used run the Suzuki racing team in South Africa. I was also the marketing and PR manager for …
Some of these were originally posted back in mid-90s so quality is pretty poor unfortunately. 1967/68 T500-I Cobra 1968/69 T500-II 1970 T500-III 1971 T500R 1972 T500J 1973 T500K 1974 T500TT 1974 T500L 1975 T500M 1975 GT500A 1976 GT500B