Gixxus Christ!

Comfy bikes. The 600 has decent grunt and you won't be disappointed as long as you don't expect supersport performance from it. Gsxr cams will wake the motor up and it's a very simple swap. Doesn't benefit much from jets or air box mods. Reliable as a hammer.

Being a bandit owner, I'll accept that.

@Isaac's Papa, how is it that you bash the Kat 600 for being slow and heavy, and then call the bandit 600 a cool bike, despite it using a nearly identical motor but being slower and heavier?

Not much signal going on inside this panel, mostly on/off switches for different pumps and exhaust fans. There is a PID controller that fires an electric heating element through an SSR, but the signal is just 12vdc pwm, not much to interfere with. Also, thread jack complete.

i would ride this. i wont buy one, but id ride it.

Don't ask, don't tell army guy approves.

I've added like 5 things since this photo was taken. You're welcome to come redo it.

You need to come down and look at the panel wiring inside the brewing controller I built. You'll end up in the after school special rape shower position.

I have also considered making one out of a filing cabinet. Saw a video of one and it was damn cool... https://www.youtube.com/shared?ci=XZQf_B42KsA

I have a rub I use for baby backs that's pretty damn delicious. I usually cook them in the crock pot at home, which does a superb job, or bundle them in tons of foil and cook with indirect heat from a campfire while camping...They cut with a plastic knife and you could shake the meat off the bone. I wanna see what I can do with a smoker.

I've read that you don't get the same flavor or the smoke ring with electric.

ive been shopping smokers lately. looking to get something small and electric. had also thought of building my own, as im pretty familiar with building temp controlled electronics (built an electric brewery last fall)...but for what the element, thermocouple and controller would cost, i can buy one out of the box. I like electric because i dont want to futz with charcoal and propane, small because my wife doesn't eat pork or beef, which is what i plan on smoking. who can point me in the right direction? i've looked at a few different ones on amazon with 4 star overall ratings, but the one-star ratings on all of them are horrible and describe very poor build quality and design issues. rather than rely on the word of internet strangers i'll never meet, i'd rather go with internet strangers i might meet one day, or have met before.

That was incredible. Thank you blue-eyed baby Jesus!

Phone can't play file. Help me out here..

Those look handy.

i got some bikes for sale @TimTheAzn. come see me.

Talks down air cooled Suzuki bike in one thread while admitting to being infatuated with air cooled pasta strainer in this thread....

if it's blowing out the overflow tank then I would see if you can diagnose the cap. maybe a replacement isnt too expensive. maybe you know someone with a bike that uses the same cap? it's worth eliminating from the list of possibilities and it's probably the cheapest fix.

good commuter bike. while heavy, the frames are rigid. the motors are damn near bomb-proof, and if you want more power an old school gsxr750 motor is a direct swap except for the oil pan iirc. they are ugly as fuck, i can't dispute that. I do have a special place in my heart for the suzuki S.A.C.C.S. engines, having a bandit 1200 myself. you can also build a pretty cool street fighter out of them, r1 shock is a direct swap, hayabusa front end swap takes minimal effort. I wouldn't buy one personally unless it was an 1100, those looked a little better and were as fast as the gsxr1100 of the day.

I like the original better. I have very little hands on experience with these bikes, so I have no clue how impossible it is to access the plugs, stat housing or rad cap. Pressure testing can probably be done at AutoZone if they have the right adaptor.

how hard is it to pull a spark plug out and read it? if you're running lean enough to overheat the bike in ten minutes in 60* weather your plugs should show it. thermostat opening? how hard is it to pull the thermostat out of the bike? dropping it in boiling water will tell you if it's shot or not, tho your stat might fail open instead of closed, which would present a different set of symptoms. pressure test the radiator cap. liquid cooling is awesome until a single component fails, then it's a shit-show.

Ibanez makes a solid entry level guitar. I used to play shows and record on a slightly above entry level Ibanez bass. Good action, good tone. Take it to a good guitar tech and have them set the action and intonation for you, it will make a difference.

Unsure if I want to lift just the hearth or the hearth and firebox. We don't use the fireplace, wife is convinced we will have a chimney fire and die. Was thinking leveling concrete would work, but I have most of an 80# bag of high strength concrete already, I guess I could just make the form level and screed across it to give myself a good level base. Open to any other suggestions.

Did you even read the post? Out of money.

I will never wake up from my home improvement nightmare. Long story short, we have a fireplace in our living room. We ripped out the carpet to put laminate over the old shitty hardwood. It was FUBAR. We put in a subfloor to try and get it flat. Still FUBAR. So we wave the white flag and get carpet installed. The subfloor is now above the hearth of the fireplace. Entire fireplace including the hearth is done in cobblestone. Wife wants the hearth above the carpet. Do I form and pour? What then? Wtf do I do? Pics to follow.