DSS swingarm options

Rudemouthsky · January 08, 2014, 10:18:15 AM

Can it be cut down safely? Would it create a bad form of bias? Is this a stupid question?

SpikeC · January 08, 2014, 10:51:36 AM

Are you looking for rear wheel steering?

Rudemouthsky · January 08, 2014, 11:02:27 AM

Yeah I sorta figured it was a dumb question

I just hate the look of the DSS and would like to change it.

Duck-Stew · January 08, 2014, 03:45:19 PM

Nope... But I did cut, lengthen & fill one with lead once!

cokey · January 09, 2014, 01:05:07 PM

get one made out of ti so it can be smaller with same strength? allthough i know certian aspects of Ti make it a bad choice due to different stresses? also its expensive..

memper · January 09, 2014, 04:41:35 PM

SC swingers are nice. Prolly nice and rare too

Slide Panda · January 10, 2014, 05:51:32 AM

Quote from: Buck Naked on January 08, 2014, 11:02:27 AM
I just hate the look of the DSS and would like to change it.

Someone got industrious and had a new one CNC milled out of a huge hunk of billet... but if I recall the costs was rather horrific. The block of metal was the better part of a grand before it ever was touched by tooling.

Rudemouthsky · January 10, 2014, 06:28:12 AM

Quote from: memper on January 09, 2014, 04:41:35 PM
SC swingers are nice. Prolly nice and rare too

How difficult of a mod would that be? Stew?

caperix · January 10, 2014, 07:34:52 AM

What about a SS swingarm with the shock mount on the vertical valvecover? I cant remember if it was NCR or another company that sold the mount. The swing arm looks a bit better & loosing the linkage would prob. drop some weight.

silas · January 10, 2014, 09:05:12 AM

How about an SSS from an S4 !
Or a JMC braced swinger ($$, nice alum piece but heavy, w a geometry changing eccentric adjuster) A friend had one on an SS yrs ago.
Apparently quite a few people have done the S4 SSS on M900's ...machining engine cases a lot

Rudemouthsky · January 10, 2014, 10:49:27 AM

Quote from: caperix on January 10, 2014, 07:34:52 AM
What about a SS swingarm with the shock mount on the vertical valvecover? I cant remember if it was NCR or another company that sold the mount. The swing arm looks a bit better & loosing the linkage would prob. drop some weight.

That's come up a few times here and on the other Duc boards. Apparently requires drilling the cases and quite a bit of other fabrication and $$.

Dub Luv used an SS swinger on an S2R frame I believe...looks like all it required was the valve cover mount.

Duck-Stew · January 10, 2014, 11:37:57 AM

Quote from: Buck Naked on January 10, 2014, 06:28:12 AM
How difficult of a mod would that be? Stew?

Upper shock-mounts are going to be an issue.

Travman · January 10, 2014, 12:00:59 PM

Powdercoat the swingarm black and any ugly you saw before goes away.

Travman · January 10, 2014, 12:10:53 PM

I always loved this swingarm. I can't remember who made it.

Slide Panda · January 10, 2014, 12:17:52 PM

Quote from: silas on January 10, 2014, 09:05:12 AM
How about an SSS from an S4 !

S4R? The S4 also has the DSS in question

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