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The first Hopeless Class entry was another Suzuki, an RE5 Rotary, in the first Iron Butt Rally, in 1984. Running an oddball motorcycle powered by an engine practically nobody had ever heard of.


The Original 750cc TwoStroke The Suzuki GT750 "Le Mans"

The GT750 engine features horizontally split crankcase halves which support the massive, four-main-bearing crankshaft. The crank has throws spaced 120 deg. apart, giving the same number of firing impulses as an in-line six-cylinder four-stroke.. In a further effort to make the GT750 as quiet as possible, Suzuki incorporated an air filter.


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The Suzuki GT750 offered a noticeably different take on the Honda CB750's formula. And the liquid-cooled two-stroke engine is just the start.. like the contemporary H2, the GT750 has a three-cylinder engine. However, the GT750's 738cc two-stroke three-cylinder engine has one notable difference: liquid cooling. That made the Suzuki GT750.


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Big, heavy, comfortable, economical and extremely smooth, the GT750 is capable of high 13-sec. standing start quarter-miles, effortless high speed cruising, hairline steering and tremendous braking. It's a Superbike in every sense of the word. The most interesting feature of the GT750 is the engine, and more particularly the method used to cool it.


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The strength of the Suzuki GT750 is its smooth, powerful engine. While Honda and Kawasaki released full-throttle superbikes focused on performance, Suzuki prioritized smooth acceleration and riding refinement. The main claim to fame for the GT750's engine is Suzuki's decision to abandon air-cooled engines in favor of a liquid cooling system.


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The Suzuki GT750 was unveiled to fanfares at the 1971 Tokyo show. The new model was Suzuki's answer to the Honda CB750, and the Kawasaki H2, but was very different to both.. Clearly, Suzuki wanted this flagship machine to represent the Suzuki Motor Company in the best light possible. The engine firing impulses corresponds to that of a 6-cyl.


Suzuki GT750 Engine overhaul Man cave & MC Restoration

The GT750 was the first Japanese serial manufactured motorcycle with a liquid-cooled engine. It was a unique engine construction in its day and today considered one of the classic Suzukis, loved by its owners. Known as the Le Mans in America, it received soon a nickname "Water Buffalo", and other nicknames in other countries.


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The Suzuki GT750, also known as the Water Buffalo or Kettle, has a unique place in the history of 1970s Japanese motorcycles, with its water-cooled two-strok.


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Suzuki GT750 engine restoration

Launched as Suzuki's flagship superbike on the show circuit in 1971, the GT750 wasn't a fire-breathing monster like the Kawasaki Mach IV/H2 triple, but instead proved to be a pleasant touring bike, comfortable to ride, with a roomy seat and a handy grab rail.


Suzuki GT750 engine restoration

Suzuki developed the GT750, known as the Le Mans in the USA and Canada, by adding a cylinder to the parallel twin two-stroke Suzuki T500, and water-cooling the resulting inline-3 cylinder engine. The distinctive lack of heat fins on the engine gave rise to a number of unusual nicknames for the GT750 in different parts of the world.


A Field Guide to the Suzuki GT750

The real difference between this Suzuki and the other motorcycles of the day was it's liquid cooling. The Suzuki GT750 was the first mass production Japanese motorcycle with a liquid-cooled engine, and Suzuki was the first motorcycle company to apply liquid cooling to a serial production bike since the Scott two-strokes of the 1920s and '30s.


GT750 3 cylinder two stroke engine close up

Introduced in 1971, the Suzuki GT750 Le Mans — affectionately known as the "Water Buffalo" or "Kettle"- was the first liquid-cooled production motorcycle from Japan, a 739cc, three-cylinder two-stroke street machine that boasted 67 horsepower at 6500 rpm.


1975 Suzuki GT/GS750 Project

Welcome to the Suzuki GT750 Kettle Club Website. it also marked the 50th year of the launch of Suzuki's 2-stroke flagship at the Tokyo Motor show in October 1970. Suzuki boldly revealed Japan's first serial manufactured, water-cooled 750 to a motorcycling world still reeling from the launch of Honda's ground-breaking CB750/4..


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Suzuki ran two parallel assembly lines for the GT750. Although frame and engine numbers began at 10001, they soon got out of sequence due to quality control, where crankcases were scrapped and the next number substituted. Close-up of Wayne Waddington's 1975 M model. Steve Thompson's stable so far. From left J (1972), K (1973) and A (1976.


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The final configuration was a 738cc, two-stroke triple that made around 67 horsepower at 6,500 rpm. Was it a superbike, though? Not exactly. The Suzuki GT750 was introduced in 1971—and like.

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