Upgrade to enjoy this feature!
Vital MX fantasy is free to play, but Premium users receive great benefits. Premium benefits include:
- View and download rider stats
- Pick trends
- Create a private league
- And more!
Only $10 for all 2026 SX, MX, and SMX series.
I had a busy day today! Ready for the Plus 50 class.
The Shop
Luxon 4-Post Bar Mounts
$189.95 - $239.95
DeCal Works Huge Plastic Inventory of UFO and Polisport kits.
Before:
After:
If you want to really trick out the 84 RM, lower the radiators as far as possible, install a tank from the 84125, back in 84/85 all the team bikes ran this setup. In the engine at the top of the intake you can drill 8mm holes into the back boost port and have the head trenched to match the flow across the cylinder head, crank up the timing a few degrees and this engine will run with anything, they can be real rockets.
If interested I may still have some photos from one of Mark Barnett's bike I acquired while working at Suzuki.
I think in later years they actually went to the 2 ring piston, you may be able to go that route now. Been a while since I had this equipment.
The crankshaft had a lot of attention, was not the normal gun metal color, I would assume it was balanced to a specific rpm alignment was perfect.
Mr. RA Suzuki himself, Ed Tashjian (SP?) out of SoCal did this and the bike looked extremely trick. Ed's a regular poster on FullFloater.com on FB.
He's discussed this swap there and is a super nice guy about giving advice. Also, I think there have been other threads here which have talked about this?
Dirt Bike magazine did a whole series of tests on hopping up the 84, they ran a bigger carb, tried I believe an ignition from an RM60 and the head from an '82.
Those are cool bikes, as an old Suzuki guy I'm really look forward to updates on your project!
Did you really build the blue wheels and complete bike in one day? The blue wheels look good on that old bike too.
Post a reply to: Weekend project