DR650 Big Bore 790cc Kit

DR650 96′ to current

Suzuki DR650 790cc Big Bore Kit by Procycle USA.

The 790cc Big Bore Kit includes:

• Custom made, forged 9.5:1 piston with rings, wrist pin and circlips.
• Custom made multi layer steel head gasket, OEM metal base gasket, tensioner gasket, cam bolt lock plate.
• Big bore cylinder sleeve.

With more grunt than a wild boar, increased capacity making the bike easier to ride in all conditions, continued DR reliability with riders clocking over a hundred thousand miles on these kits.

ProCycle 790cc Kit

Of all the modifications we have made to the DR motor, we get some of our best results from bumping up the displacement. As the saying goes, ‘there is no replacement for displacement’. Our first big-bore kit took the displacement from the stock 650cc to 725cc. We really liked that motor and it got us to thinking, if a 725 was that good, what would an even bigger motor be like? So back in July of 2010 we began work on an even larger displacement kit, the big 780. For 2012 it’s grown a little bit more to 790cc.

The first question was how big do we go? Our first goal was to make sure that the motor continued to be totally reliable. To keep the sleeve thick enough to remove any durability issues, we figured that a bore of approximately 110mm was what we wanted.

We checked with CP Pistons and they had a 110mm piston blank already engineered and ready to go. All they had to do was revise the final machining to match the specifications and revisions we wanted for the DR and they were ready. This piston has several benefits over the piston in our 725cc kit. The first is that the squish area has been increased allowing for much better combustion efficiency.

We determined that the 790 motor should have a true 9.5:1 compression which means it will tolerate lower octane gasoline and will run a little leaner with no detonation problems. Note: stock engines we have measured actually came in a 8.7:1 compression. That’s a long way from the factory specification so a true CR of 9.5 is a nice boost while still remaining well in the safe zone. The dished piston dome allows a big increase in valve to piston clearance.

With a big piston in hand, we called up our favorite sleeve manufacturer, Northwest Sleeve, and they made us a new custom ductile iron sleeve. You can’t just bore out the stock sleeve to accept the big piston in this kit. Once you have your motor disassembled, you need to take your current cylinder to a shop that can machine the cylinder and drop in the new sleeve, then bore the resleeved cylinder to fit the new piston.

All in all, the installation is very straight forward and not difficult. You are only required to remove the top end, have the new sleeve installed and then put it all back together. Figure a couple of hours to tear it down and a couple more to get it back together. There is no need to remove the motor from the frame, split the cases or do any machining to the cases.

Now you probably want to know how well it works. First of all, we wouldn’t sell it if it didn’t meet our expectations. Check out the dyno comparison.

 

ABA’s take – Suzuki produced 750 and 800 singles way back in the late eighties and early nineties called the Suzuki Big even raced them in events such as the Paris to Dakar Rally so not if this is something new.
Have a 790 kit in my XF650 Freewind from nearly ten years ago ( writeup in our Mal’s Bike Diary blog pages ) however as a collector bike does very little klms. One young Australian rider who pedals his hard however has over 166 thousand klms on his 790 kit and also in the US many bikes with large amounts of miles. Bikes run smoother and just sooooo much nicer and easier to ride, loads more power short shift through that gearbox just grunts away and wants to pull wheelies at will. Our cafe racer/scrambler/motard owner group love em, ideal as a track bike or rounding up sports bikes through the tight stuff. As an adventure bike just gobbles up big miles with ease.

If time ever permits and we get our project DR done ( Nova have sponsored the new WR gearbox, our big sister store Procycle the 790 kit and good friend Alex at Skinny’s Garage in Brisbane is handling the major mechanicals ) we’ll have it dyno’d due to Procycle’s attached images are old from the 780 period, stay tuned !

 

NOTE from Mike Baker Procycle USA – When Jeff made that graph about twelve years ago using our own dyno it was mostly to show the difference in the 725 kit and the 780 at the time.

This is from the forums from Jeff, “The stock/725/780 dyno chart really should only be looked at as a ‘general information’ comparison. Those graphs were made with 3 different motorcycles and done several years apart. The individual runs were pulled from our archive of hundreds of dyno runs and selected to fit together in one graphic and be good representations of 3 different builds. The intent was to show some examples of what is possible and how much stronger the 780 is over the 725. Again, that chart should be looked at as a COMPARISON not as some sort of ‘this is exactly what you will get’ documentation.

CUSTOMER REVIEW –

Well,  Just collected the DR this morning

Big Valves installed in the head

Head custom ported to suit build

Balanced Crank

Had your 790 kit installed & 190cam already installed

Nova WR type A gear box

It seem to flatten out at 140km now it pulls to 180km and we backed off

Bike is not new so had to replace the clutch as it slipped with all that extra power plus heavy springs on the way.

This bike with all the work done is unreal. smooth, powerful and sits on 130km easy

the gear box is super smooth and the wide ratio is right on..

I was going to buy a T700 but now no need

thanks for all you help

Dan

SECOND EMAIL –

Hi Mal,

The 790 kit plus the cam and the Carb….

It goes like a shower of shit ! It’s unreal mate…

Pulls wheel stands in 3rd everywhere. The Mechanic at Brisbane Yamaha did all the work and tuning and its runs perfect.

Any way just some feed back very very happy with the outcome

Thanks mate regards Dan