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+10cm swing arm New rims Hubs and brakes Loom Check

That agenda looks sweet, so much structure. Although I don't feel it has really captured the essence of the Swap Meet weekend which includes fair amounts of standing around doing fuck all / why are we still here and not going somewhere / the hosts of the thing we just looked at are wondering why we are still loitering here and not fucking off already. And speaking of Essence, that's the name of the cafe for Day 3 activities... Day 3: Sunday, 3rd August 10:00 – 12:00 Farewell Breakfast at [Local Café Name]

Point of interest, "Russell, drive shaft specialists, Andromeda crescent east tamaki" found the company you mentioned. But actually using their name; "Driveshaft Specialists Nz Ltd" brings up a load of fucking garbage including 800 people in hard hats and a six story crane. Search engines are completely poisoned

awesome thanks

Russell, drive shaft specialists, Andromeda crescent east tamaki is who I usually recommend He's reasonably priced and does good work.

Normally I'd just throw this in tech spam but thought I might get more responses here Google has failed me, I want the contact details of a local company staffed by human beings who can talk to me in english and assemble a driveshaft. Northland would be perfect, auckland good enough The Internet keeps directing me to globocorp engineering ltd with 800 people in hard hats and a six story crane in the background

Nice work man, top fuckin notch.

Yep definitely a g54.

Christ you just triggered a memory. In my apprenticeship the factory owner had a flash ski boat and he wouldnt even let us look at it. I dont mean lifting up the engine hatch or anything. Literally in it's direction. So when us dickhead kids walked past we had to face the other direction and sort of crab walk. What a cunt

The longest gap between fuel stops is 156kms. In 2024, I did the whole trip without running out. (Unlike this year, when I ran out twice)

No idea sorry mate. I know i polished the fucking thing at least 5 times during my apprenticeship though.

Well just learned if you blow an intercooler pipe off after the MAF turbo moves so much air through the system the injectors go max duty cycle and foul the plugs near instantly...... I rolled 1.5ks home and made it up drive and couldn't push brakes hard enough to not go into fence so handbrake to rescue! I may need to extend some pipework so I can get everything pushed in nice again, pretty sure I rushed the installation of the maf too maybe left a clamp loose. Goes great though!

Fuck did i have some issues getting it running. On the plus side I now know what every single wire on the ecu plug does, and that it's properly connected and working, as well as 90% of the entire cars looms. One i got the thing to actually run i thought the sensible thing to do would be take it for a drive. It's still running like a dog but I drove it anyway. Fuck it's choice, even though I've only driven it 10ks in a fucking cyclone I can already feel how amazing the thing is. I'M HAVING A BEER WHO'S WITH ME!!!!!!

What's the distance between fuel stops on this gig?

Do you know if they were the same company as the west island?

Ordered tyres for this. As its mainly going to be on road, I decided against knobblie s as wet white lines are not a good mix with knobblies. I have a pair of shinko 402s coming. Although its a dirt bike, these tyres will be good on road.

No worries. regarding the gearbox comment, was more meaning it is actually a g54 not something else with a different ratio. If you are certain its correct, then all good. just that it doesnt seem that 'short' in the ratio.

Thanks heaps for sacrificing some of your time to do the calcs for me @440bbm. I really appreciate it. I took the gearbox ratios straight out of my HiAce workshop manual, but that doesn't necessarliy mean that the detail is correct. I think your ideal of fitting a cheapie tacho is a good one, so I'll start working on that and will report back with some figures. Thanks again. Thanks also to @CUL8R for the links to the calculators.

Yep nz made savage. Old boss had a 16ish foot one with a 115 yammie. Went hard as a ski boat.

Bookmarked! I loved my little 4agze aw11 back in the 90s so looking forward to seeing more on this. Also - that little blue thing with the engine in the correct place. Tell us more please.

I havent torn off the floor but I assume it's all glass with ply/timber stringers. It says it is a Savage 350. It may be a NZ brand as it looks very similar to a Savage Bosun which every man and his dog owned in Straya but there are differences.

I have this nifty little Johnny in the wings which I quite like. Came from a one owner Barry who mentioned that he used the shit out of it but only in fresh water which seems to be true looking under the cover. Both barrels have 90+psi so I'm calling it good.

sweet boat! solid glass? what make?

OK, sweet. Doesn't matter that you don't have an RPM counter, just makes it harder to verify the change to what you want with actual numbers. What gear do you use for around town at 50kms and obviously you're in 5th for 100. Here is your current setup. I have used 4th gear @ 50kph : 5th gear @100kph: So if we go to a 3.9 final drive ratio: 50 kph in 4th: 100kph in 5th: So if we go to 3.7 final drive ratio: 50 kph in 4th: 100kph in 5th: OK. There you can see the differences at nominal speeds. But what about 1st gear you say? I'm not going to do a @Roman spec graph for you which would be alot easier for your veiwing pleasure but the basics are this: 1st gear, 4.1 Final drive: 8kph = 1132 rpm 16kph = 2264 rpm 1st gear, 3.9 Final drive: 8kph = 1077 rpm 16kph =2154 rpm 1st gear, 3.7 Final drive: 8kph =1022 rpm 16kph =2043 rpm This would be easier, if I did an RPM to kph speed for you to see easier but because I'm lazy and cbf starting again, you can think about this the long way around it. But as it seems: 1st gear @ 20/21kph is the roughly similar revs at 100 kph with 4.1 ratio (2943 rpm ) 1st gear @ 20/21kph is 2800rpm with 3.9 ratio 1st gear @ 20/21kph is 2656rpm with 3.7 ratio Alot of funny numbers there. What I would do at this point, would be a cheap shitty RPM gauge that you can put in temporarily to see whats what. I question that you may be feeling like the revs are higher than you think which is not uncommon when you're sitting on top of the motor, not behind a firewall and alot further forward ( quieter ). The average becomes around 150 RPM in any gear in 0.2 change of final drive ratio. This also doesn't allow for wanting to change gears at different speeds with those without knowing what your RPM is in any gear/speed. Feels like dropping to a 3.9 may not be enough, but someone with more experience with your motor may be able to answer is the 3.7 going to make the motor suffer from torque. I'm almost about to question are yoou sure the gearbox is correct as the numbers don't look scary bad. TL;Dr - Not that certain I have actually answered anything or helped.

Cool bike, I like how the carb slide looks bigger then the piston...