My '83 KZ550 is lowered and stretched. I stretched the swingarm exactly 6" and that made the new chain length 120 links. I had to cut the back fender to clear the tire, so I cut it even with the bottom of the tail piece, so you can't even see it under there. To lower the bike, I removed the shocks from the back and made simple struts out of steel. I welded them on, but a lot of people just bolt them in place of the shocks. Anyone can do that mod with a hacksaw and a drill. So that gave me a much lower ride height in the back. To lower it on the front end, I just took the caps off of the top of the shocks and let the gas out of them. This made the front end much lower. The handle bar is just a simple straight drag bar I got for 20 bucks. I took off the turn signals and replaced them with the modern aftermarket mini LED style lights for 26 bucks. I had to replace the flasher to work with the LEDs and that was about 5 bucks. I painted the wheels black and I cut off the mufflers and added slash-cut tips. The muffler shop charged me 20 bucks for that. Then I wrapped the headers with header wrap. That was about 30 bucks. I took the air cleaner box off and replaced it with 4 chrome high-flow racing air filters. I had to re-jet the carbs because of the increased air flow resulting from the mufflers and air filters being removed. I went from stock 92 jets to 130 jets, and that cost about 15 bucks. It still runs a little lean, so I can even go bigger, but I like the way it pops and ...
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