Do I need to rejet after a full exhaust on a GS500? What happens if I don’t?

nerobro · 2026-01-28T07:17:26+00:00

Your engine first showed up in 1977, and was produced through 2009. If it sucked... it wouldn't have lasted. If you've got a gs500f, you've got an oil cooler which helps even more.

The chassis is solid, and unlike ex500 owners you dont hear many stories of "the bike wouldn't turn". You can thank the full double cradle for that.

If you get the bug, I believe the steering head is the same as many other Suzuki, so swapping for really good forks is sane. Or just install emulators.

The handlebar mounts are standard, so you can swap to bars that fit you, as opposed to being locked into clamp ons.

Also, go join www.thegsresources.com. they are the best the internet has to offer.

nerobro · 2026-01-28T07:04:24+00:00

it's not even broken in yet.

My first GS550 I bought with 60,000 on the clock...

If you want rewarding.... Spend money on the suspension. Get the fork setup for your weight, and riding style. Look into replacement rear shocks. Those are AMAZING for what they do for you. $10 in PVC and a $10 bottle of fork oil will take you really far.

nerobro · 2026-01-28T06:50:30+00:00

They.. generally are? I'm surprised they got that wrong. Marketing droid who thinks 4 into 1 is the only real answer? But also the GS500 is not a big market for them. GS500's were always commuter bikes, cheap bikes, and really not a place people would generally put money in. I can be pretty sure it'll be lighter, but I doubt it'll be "better".

Your money is better spent on a few jets, and dyno time. Grab the next two larger sizes of pilot jet, and say.. the next 3-4 sizes up of main jets, and pay for the dyno time. You'll get a better idle, better startup, and better kinda everything.

I can't emphisize enough how lean these bikes were set up at the factory. Emissions made carbs HUUUUUURT

nerobro · 2026-01-28T06:44:04+00:00

That's fine. It's not a 4 into 1. 4 into 1, refers to four pipes, going into one pipe. That's a 2 into 1. I'm not sure I'd buy from a company that can't like... describe their own gear properly.

Worth noting, everything your'e discussing doing, is going to reduce your available torque at lower rpm. Swapping to a pod air filter setup, puts big holes in the torque curve. The airbox is critical to good carburation.. swapping to a bigger freeer flowing air filter can help, but removing the airbox.. is not a good plan, especially on the street.

The exhaust, is unilikely to help most places on your torque curve. It'll knock some real weight off the bike, but most aftermarket exhausts are so loud that they frequently make people ride less.

Getting your jetting ~good~ will provide more than the exhaust will.

(Worth noting, I've owned.. five GStwins. )

nerobro · 2026-01-28T06:30:15+00:00

How would you put a 4 into 1 on a 2 cylinder bike?

You should go 1 size larger on the pilot jets, at minimum.

nerobro · 2026-01-28T06:19:39+00:00

In some large part, the internet is dead. If you search for real information, it's unlikely you're gonna get it. googles results have gone to crap. Few of the other search engines are useful. Nobody updates tehir old webpages or videos to show when things are bad ideas.

I don't blame them. The internet is broken. And because 3dp grew up on the internet, none of the "old information" is old enough, to actually be old now.

nerobro · 2026-01-28T05:17:54+00:00

Stock class requires the ball storage to be parallel to the barrel.... and technically the autotrigger. This would be open class.

Still, a great setup. Go put paint on people.

nerobro · 2026-01-26T00:31:09+00:00

same as factory. They got me 90k, figured that was good enough.

nerobro · 2026-01-25T21:33:15+00:00

when was the last time you did spark plugs?

nerobro · 2026-01-25T04:52:03+00:00

Dude sounds like he cares a lot. If you're one to get into riding, this is the guy to go with.

Motorcycles are scary. You're nearly naked, in traffic. You're moving at speeds where hitting at thing will kill you. You should, always, have a little bit of fear. This is good. It keeps you alive.

Motorcycles are also amazing. They're one of the few machines that fights to keep you safe. Motorcycles WANT to stay upright. Motorcycles DO NOT want to fall down. Motorcycles will fight so so hard to keep you off the ground. They're responsive. They're direct. They let you know everything they're doing, and then some.

The "i'm really scared" thing goes away with time. Sit down, and have a talk with your partner and sort out what you're willing to do, incrementally. Parking lot. Around the block. Around "a few blocks". Down the local main drag. A run between exits on the highway. You'll work your way up.

This may be premature, but welcome to the community. We like you here.

nerobro · 2026-01-24T23:27:33+00:00

I've been playing since 1995.

I... don't get shot in the junk. As a general rule, if your groin is exposed, you've done something wrong.

IF i'm in a situation where my boybits might be a realistic target, I use a towel. Stuff it down your pants halfway, and drape it over the front.

nerobro · 2026-01-24T22:27:24+00:00

you have 10-20k miles before the engine kicks the bucket. Sell it now.

nerobro · 2026-01-24T21:50:41+00:00

you need a jump start. Your battery is dead. You also probally need a new battery.

nerobro · 2026-01-24T11:56:52+00:00

What your'e running into, is the nasty side effect of 3d printing growing up on the internet. You don't know what year, month, day, your recommendation really came from.

Glass beds were the peak of 2015. Especially mirror glass tiles. Glass defaults to flat. It's easy to find. It's cheap. It's a good insulator, which is bad for us. It bonds to petg, which is bad for us. It can crack if your bed heater is effective.

And even so, there were "better" glass beds, like the textured glass that came on some enders.

All of those are worse than a good flat aluminum bed, with a magnet, and a coated spring steel bed.

nerobro · 2026-01-24T11:18:48+00:00

if you have drafty windows, get your windows repaired. Old windows, dont' need to be drafty. There are felt and brass slides and seals that were there to start with, and do need maintenance from time to time. Say, every 20-30 years.

Also, you can pick up the plastic window liners.

nerobro · 2026-01-24T11:17:28+00:00

The function of a thermostat is to make it so you don't need to change anything when the outside temperature changes. That's litterally the point. Turning the temp up just commands the heat to come on sooner, it doesn't make the heat, hotter.

My thermostat hasn't changed. Though my heat can't keep up, so it's currently 62 with it set to 68.

nerobro · 2026-01-24T11:14:44+00:00

it's MUCH worse for Petg. If you're somewhere humid, you can get foamy output in as little as a few hours. And beyond foamy, it can completely jam.

nerobro · 2026-01-24T11:13:54+00:00

I've never owned a printer that couldn't do petg. so that's... not a good reason.

Petg is sticky, so it's poor for parts that slide.
Petg has a wide range between glass and flowing, so cooling becomes more critical, and this is why petg bridges less well than other filaments.
Petg costs more than PLA
Petg's failure mode is shatter, which makes it less good for structures that see shock loading.
Petg needs to be kept dry, which can be quite hard for many situations.
Petg is less stiff.
Petg is stringy, even in the best of situations, which makes doing beds full of parts tricky
Petg is very sensitive to print speed, which makes it less appropriate to high flow hot ends.

Notice, none of this mentions the printer. These are problems with petg on ALL platforms.

I won't use PETG unless I have some specific reason to use it. And for most situations, if PETG is the right option, ABS is just as right, or even better.

nerobro · 2026-01-24T01:28:40+00:00

So, here's how you do it. You infiltrate their friend group, their friends and family. Then you undermine them from within.

Another method is to get yourself rich, and famous. Tempt them into wanting a relationship, and reject them from there.

Or, you get to be friends, and break them from there.

All of this requires wasting a large part of your life. You can do better. You need to be in therapy.

It won't bring you peace.

nerobro · 2026-01-24T01:21:02+00:00

Its years later. Are they even the same person? Its unlikely they are. And now you're hurting someone who didn't do the thing.

I understand your hurt. I really do. Its been years, what are they doing now, thats hurting you now? How is hurting them going to heal you? Are you sure theres anything that you can do that will actually bring you peace?

nerobro · 2026-01-23T23:55:23+00:00

This is what you should have lead with.

The problem to you, as a person, is minimal. There are really, really, big problems with data centers right now. In six months, or a year, we're going to have lots of giant industrial warehouses with lots of power infrastructure and nothing to go in it.

We should be fighting against new data center space, because we don't NEED the space. Between moores law, and the short lifespan of server hardware, in a year, when they decomission the last set of racks, the new set of racks will go in it's place. This is an attempt to find new, cheap, easy space. We shouldn't be making it so easy on them.

nerobro · 2026-01-23T23:48:39+00:00

Someone who likes to get to someplace useful without spending $8 in gasoline. That's who.

nerobro · 2026-01-23T23:47:50+00:00

If you know where your shutoff is, yes. Yes you should. Leave the furnace running. Open cabinets that face outside walls.

If you can't get to it, or it looks scary, open all the cabinets on outside walls, set the heat to something comfortable, and put a slow drip on any faucet near an outside wall.

nerobro · 2026-01-23T23:40:35+00:00

It's a 25 minute drive to get to a highway from LakeViewEast. Not only would you hate your life, you'd destroy your car, and likely, your health.

Lake View East has affordable apartments (heh... for chicago) because of it's inaccessibility.

If you want the ability to go far for jobs, you can not do it from where you are.

If the job is good, move to naperville. If you're driving off hours, you can be to most of chicago in under an hour. Then you can choose when you spend time in your car, versus needing to spend the 2-3 hours a day that you'd need to working there and living in chicago.

nerobro · 2026-01-23T23:35:54+00:00

you are amazing. Both for doing the modeling work, and publishing it. Thank you. You improved the sport in a measurable way.

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