Hi,
I have been riding for 40+ years but just bought a 1989 CBR 600 for my son and my next project. It is our first water cooled bike and it has a blown head gasket. However, it does start, and clutch and transmission appear to be ok.

I can change the head gasket, but am considering changing to an F2 or F3 engine since they seem to have better parts availability. I'm sure that I can fab the motor monts, but I'm not sure about the compatibility of the electronics and carburetors between the F1 and later engines.

I did a search and did not see much about swapping the later engines into the F1 frame so there may be problems that folks have experienced in the past.

I have already seen a lot of information on the forum and look forward to future information. There seems to a a lot of knowledgable folks here.

 

Welcome to the fourm, lots of people that are very helpful on here, post up pics of the project when ya can and good luck with it

 

welcome to CBRF

please post up pics of that project. this is something a lot of people benefit from.

 

Welcome aboard Fairlane62!

Yeah, the gasket change isn't too difficult.

My recommendation would be to fix the 89's engine & have it to ride. Meanwhile, research & gather parts for the engine swap if that's something you really want to get into & determine its viability/cost effectiveness.

If you do the engine swap, you'll have to swap to the F2/F3 wiring harness & adapt it to the 89's components.

As said, a mod write-up would be great...if you get to that point.

 

Sorry for the late response, I am traveling and have limited computer access. Thanks for the responses. I didn't see any threads on head gasket change, so I will download the manual so I can see what needs to be done with the cam chain during the head removal process to assure that I maintain cam timing.

 

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