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good to meet you too @Kiwibirdman bummer your son got knocked out early on in the night, but good to see him racing again after only doing the 1st round of night speed. after fixing the voltage regulator i went to a local car and bike show in Frankton, won a $150 fuel voucher as a spot prize. win win. made the most of the free fuel and went for a quick blat over the divy towards Raglan. got the oil nice and hot and dropped it out once i got home to doing a filter and oil change. i had been pretty lazy about changing the filter due to having to take the headers off to get it out and should have done this a long time ago. but trusty Suzuki and low servicing needs just got the better of me. while doing this in typical fashion my daughter was right next to me lending me a hand. Look dad with some laughter i really wanted to tip some water down the funnel for a good old laugh. new filter came with a new o ring for the seal, gave it little to no attention and slapped that one and back in she went back to teaching a small human logical stuff about motors, we read the owners manual and checked how much oil it'd take after doing a filter and she insisted she needed to do the poring of the oil and doing the cap up. now ready for round 7 of night speed drag wars. it was a bloody great night for bikes. we must have had shy of 40 bikes racing if not more. While doing practice runs, i lined up against @MostlySuzukis and managed to win the race against him for the 1st time, but in the finals, he got his vengeance and won, putting him into the final round and coming 2nd for the night. i am number 24, Marnix (mostly suzuki) is 26 During test runs, I ran my personal best of 11.832 with a reaction of 0.007, putting a false hope that I was going to run close to this during the night. In reality, I should have set my dail in time around 11.9 or 11.95 as the night got muggier and air temps became warmer. None the less, I came 3rd equal with our mate Ben on his Yamaha Fazer and got in 10 runs for the night, putting me a 62 runs down the drag strip since 1st of November, a few yellow slips amongst the stack. a good photo from the night and marnixs final round It'd been a week or so since and i finally found out news that i didn't get the higher role i applied for at work and i probably didn't take it that well. so default settings is to go for a thrash on my bike and take my frustration out on that. so hit up marnix yet again and said dw about about the cost of gas i got you covered for this ride. over the divy to raglan for an ice cream and shit yarns on the way back we had little traffic going over the divy. found my muffler, peg and boot through the corners the muffler made some pretty sparks and covered marnix in them, i even managed to catch a glimpse of them out of my one mirror haha bikes been going really well and time to do a plug check to see the condition of them, had this pesky stone down in there stopping me from getting one plug out. and the plugs are looking healthy so time for another thrash over the divy tire getting nice and hot got a new top speed of 211kph and its really starting to struggle to get any more after 190kph. so must be lack of hp been 100hp ish or gear rations and falling off its peak performance around that speed against the wind so i've sold the beetle, adapter plate and got some other crap to sell and saving my cashies to try get a bike that'd be around 150hp stock or more, and i will probably just get a re-tune on that or just start racing that stock which will give me more time to modify this bike into something a bit sillier. i have another stock manifold that i wouldn't mind cutting up and slapping a turbo on for fun. anyway, last round of night speed drag wars on the 25th and 1st and 2nd position are just racing each other in points, where marnix is currently in 3rd and has another 5 other people including myself that could knock him out. its been a great season for fun, learning the bike and been able to try something different.

I'm practically a auto electrician now. Not really, but I had a mate pop over and he was saying that if the voltage regulator is a 3 phase one you can just replace it with any 3 phase voltage regulator. So i rang the local bike wreckers and he was in the shop. Shot down to have a catch up and show him what I was dealing with. He said yup, looked in a few boxes and pulled out a sv650 regulator. 5 wires and chucked it on the bench and showed me how to test them while testing it. Proceeded to test mine and explain to me more and how it's fucked. That experience it self was worth the 75 dollars. Quick trip to super cheap to get some plugs. As long as they go any three phase wire to any other three phase wire that part is fine, red to red and black to black its fine. So a dodgy crimp and some soldering. installed with a minor movement of some wires so they didn't get squashed. And all done. Getting some good voltage again and back together again.

Round 6 of Night Speed Drag Wars. What a round for myself, I went through scrutineering and rode my bike around to the pits, where I went to start it up and check a few things. Well, we aren't starting. Battery completely flat! After almost 300kms of riding, it seems either the voltage regulator or either stator isn't working. A quick phone call to @Roman and @flyingbrick, and they bought a jumper pack to help and a multi meter up, which confirmed no voltage. First test run, 12.4. Very close to my personal pb of 12.2. The second run was 12.3, third was 12.6, and i was fast asleep on the line. A few people were going for another run, so I qued up before giving my dial in time, and I ran a 12.05. New pb so put my dail in as 11.95. Round one was against Shaun on his Harley. Believe it or not, i broke out at 11.919 a new pb but knocked out early. After a while, I thought I'd try to do a grudge race and try to get another pb. My battery decided not go at all. So I watched the rest of the bike races, resulting in Ben coming 1st for the second time for this season. A push start for me, lights turned off i followed @MostlySuzukis with his mate Aaron beside me and Ben following me we got on our way and before I knew it we were home. I've spoken to a fellow gsx1100 rider here locally in nz and asked if he's got spare parts. This is his turbo powered 1428cc 300hp gsx1100 that does 8.8 second quarter mile at 152mph Hopefully, he can have a dig around and check his parts. Round 7 is in 3 weeks' time. I'd really like to get a new pb and get a few more runs under the belt with the trumpets on.

I have done a couple smaller rides and clocked up a fewr 100 kms now. Todays ride on the bike was good, felt great and weather was beautiful. Pulled the tank off and ripped the spark plugs out to check condition on them and I'm happy too report back that they look pretty good still. Going off chats and typical Google searches it seems like it's still good condition and it's not lean or rich. Floating around in the middle. Night speed drag wars tomorrow night and I'm excited to see if my ¼ mile times change.

well well well. we got there in the end. oldschool drag day came around and went pretty fast. i ended up doing 18 runs that day and pushed and pushed the bike continuously. to the point i thought i hot seized it. turns out the battery just went flat thankfully. was great to have the family along and race a bunch of different cars and clint on his bike. start the day off with some fouling plugs luckily mum was coming up a bit later and stopped in at boyds to grab some new ones for me. had some cool races bike was running really bad here and you can see me one arm down just chilling my daughter was excited i was racing a fire truck and just a couple of good ones happy daughter watching me race and i think @Roman dave took this photo here is a wad of passes 10/10 day and Jesus it was hot in my leathers. no wonder why all the p roders ride in shorts and a shirt. i painted the little suzuki on the side casing of the engine to match the other side after @flyingbrick couldn't let his ocd pass it up and point it out to me. did the most normal thing and went shopping for finger nail polish xmas eve. so many different reds counter lady asked if it was a late xmas present for my partner. i laughed and said no, i just needed to paint something red. came away with that. and i feel like that looks pretty good you can kind of see it here in this image. i was planning on heading down to battle of the streets in whanganui, and after a bunch of thinking and chatting. i ended up splurging out of a radar before heading away on the bikes that weekend. but due to the forecast we didn't get away to battle of the streets. but i did get to the mt on the bike. ended up taking the bike for a hoon on the 1st of Jan as i had some time up my sleeve before work i think. ended up down at whakamaru. Bumped into @datlow while i was there ended up giving the plugs a clean hit them with a vapor blast try bring them to life. then went for a ride to raglan and cased the sun before it completely disappeared then i went drag racing with a couple of mates they do wheelies and i cant alright i got to go do some work. ill be back in about 5 mins

one day this will happen

it'd be great for a new page

lets see if i can get these done and then my update before i have to go do any work

its going to be a few yet then

shit me side ways

its looking like a bunch at this rate

so it could be heaps

but then again i just do really long posts

shouldn't be to many

lets see how many of these i have to do

must be time for a new page

Quit joking around and get it done @datlow and come on some bike rides.

Hey @10Speed are you still floating around in here.

Yup, BRM dyno. Don't know who else would have a rolling road and be interested in doing a dyno tune for the bike locally.

Cheers for that, I had since swapped the filters back on already. Plan is to chuck a 02 sensor in the pipe and monitor it and do some plug chops when I get some free time to do some testing. Hit up a guy to do some tuning on a dyno and it was $500-$700 and a week which isn't really that bad, just not in the budget. Yeah between the 17 inch set up and the 16 inch set up is 6mm difference of over all height with the 16 inch set up been taller. with the shocks been shorter I'd say I've lost height over all and created more rake. When @Kimjon was measuring the trail it seemed very similar to the og set up.

Went for a ride with the trumpets on and it felt great. And i stopped in to see dad. 1st time he had probably seen the bike in 20 years. Over all went well and was a good ride. Later in the week we went to night speed drag wars. I had some shit test runs and got nocked out 1st round. So had plenty of time to look at other bikes and think about modifications. Enough time to start doing some research, research on limit straps and followed up with some chats with @MostlySuzukis about how to make them with out spending 100s of dollars. I spoke to @flyingbrick about them and asked if we could make some spacers to help make these limit straps. Quick trip to his and used the lathe. He already has these spacers made so I just had to make the hole a bit bigger in the middle. Then I searched the net for hours trying to find some 25mm anchor plates locally, to which @Raizer found some from nzkw which would have worked. But I was after some even more local as i wanted the job done. Ended up buying some 5mm plate after not finding any local. Got to it. These now bolt through the forks to the brake calipers on either side. I had bought a cheap camlock tie down from supercheap auto and cut the tie down off and used some webbing I had here. Sewed a loop in the end This is how it works. Managing to get about 70mm of compression on the front. Before hand And after. Not bad, $25 for the tie down, steel and hardware. Fuel and time on the other hand.... The experience was worth it and it'll be great to see if it makes a impact on drag racing.

Got bored the other night and went looking on Aliexpress for random things that might be of use to me. $16 later Don't think I could have them posted for that let alone 3d printed in nz. Off with these Quick modification on the outer one. Like a glove Time to duplicate this on the other side Job done Happy with that.

So continuing on with the saga. No one really had any cam bolts in stock including a wrecker locally. As I suspected. I made a call to a wrecker out passed Waingaro hot pools and he said he might have a gsxf650/600 i could rip parts off if they worked and I had put up a post on a local fb page and a guy said he had a bandit1250 with spare bolts, so on the way out to Waingaro i stopped in to check the 1250 bolts he had. 10mm to long but I grabbed them anyway along side some dowel pins I was short of and some spares. continued on to the other wreckers and this is what he had for me. Limited tools and borrowed tools from him we cracked into the job. 20 new/second hand cam bolts the right length for $10 and 6 that were too long from the other guy and I think we were ready. Made a trip to malcolms house and the longer ones were able to be shortened with enough thread on them. He used a left hand thread drill bit to get the broken stud out earlier that afternoon. Made a plan to pop around the following night at 730 to finish it off. To which I turned up at 725 and the cam cover was going on and most of the hard work was already done. So I slapped the rest of it together and we had it running and out the door at 9pm Night speed drag wars here we come! Friday came around and we left Hamilton just after 4pm getting to meremere just on 5pm, qued up for tech and paid our fees and our 1st test runs were made at 630pm My first run felt good. Really good to get it out of the way and kill the nerves. 12:557 @ 111.05 might with a reaction time of 0.160 Very happy with that for my first run ever. My second run was 12.7 and the bike bogged a bunch after leaving the line. I'm number 024 for reference. Third test pass and I was asleep on the tree. Old mate on the Harley red lit haha. We then went into dyo and I set mine at 12:38 thinking if I broke out at that I'd be happy to loose breaking out. First round of dyo I won Second round I won 3rd round I had a by Fourth round I broke out massively and went 12:20 Over all coming 4th position in the bikes. Absolutely stoked for my first night/event of drag racing on a bike. Was really great to see the drag scene alive and thriving last night and cool to see this 39 and a half year old bike still able to get out there and do it while been competitive as well. Got to remember as the night gets later my bike will run faster with colder air so I'll have to button off at the end of the strip so I don't break out as bad. Got home and 12:40 am and my trip planner registered that I done 180kms for the night from home. 10/10 will bang again. Next round is on the 15th of November. Stay tuned for more yarns.

that didn't take long. its been a minute since i done an update, so lets unload whats been going on in classic motorcycle world. got a family photo like my dad did years ago. went for a few rides between and then it was time to do cold kiwi. all packed up headed down with @flyingbrick @MostlySuzukis and a mate called pete. myself and marnix cheated a bit and had our gear and tent taken down to ohakuni the week before hand, but set up camp went for a ride around the local region went up the mountain with a couple of the guys we were camping with had word there was a storm coming with some crazy high winds so we tied the tent to the bikes. probably should have tied my bike to the other side as i woke up to the tent inside out and on me at 230am and woke marnix who was on the other side of the tent. the got winds of 100kph and other bikes fell over during the night. cc in @flyingbrick we packed up and headed home after the miserable night and stopped off on our way home at some spots and made it home to a happy daughter a good clean later spotless and lubed chain we are up and riding again. this time to the Hamilton motorcycle club night not long after that i decided id ride it to work, fouled a plug and got pissed off so changed out all four plugs. while doing that (during work hours) i left a lead off and thought the bike was completely fucked. i was pissed off to say the less during the time that i thought it was fucked. some more riding, this time to kawhia. another month passed now and club night was on again, quick ride out to raglan before hand during these last couple of rides the clutch was slipping at say 140kph and 160kph really bad. so i got some new clutches which i found locally and this was my next task. a few free minutes and a daughter wanting to work on grandad garys motorbike we were all go. oil all drained and wiggles magic wand to help i don't know what i'm doing at this stage, but i'm following my noes quick count up looks about right. clutches now soaking in new oil and time to put it all back together borrowed a torque wrench from a mate and made sure i didn't over torque these clutch bolts back together with a half fearing cause @flyingbrick is a sicko and really likes it like this quick ride to raglan to test the new clutches patted a random dog while i was pondering life but when i got home, i checked the oil and after a couple of rides this bike was still burning oil like no tomorrow. so time has come and the valve stem seals are now to be done on the trailer and off to dads best friends house who has kindly offered to help out and has some really good knowledge of motors and engineering we got into it and stripped the rest down till we came across needing a few different modifed tools. so we stopped, malcolm modified some tools and we caught up today to carry on. but during that time i put on my big boy pants and sat my full license for my motorcycle. took my small honda monkey over to Revs motorcycle center in paeroa went for a bit of a hoon while i was over there and yes i passed my full license but back to today. Malcolm made this handy air compression thing to full the combustion chamber up with air and hold the valves up while we took the springs off to reach the valve stem seals it was originally a spark plug of mine. he also had to modify his tool to press down the springs cams off and into it (well went over timing and a few other things) here we can see his tool that has been modified over the years watch the next video with volume off or down, the air compressor was still getting up to psi. and check out how toast this were. we were on a roll! had a good rhythm going and got them all done. cams back into place and started to put all the bolts back in that held the cam in place. when out of nowhere, one decided to snap under no tension at all. putting a end to the day pretty fast! i can get new bolts which is alright. ill try locally and see if i can get them fast. but for some weird reason we were missing a couple of dowels too. so ill get a couple of them and we should be good to go again. been that dad modified this bike and mucked around with it heaps back in the day, these bolts are a bit rough and i can understand them been fatigued just look at the top of the bolt. anyway, that's us up to date now here is a photo of when malcolms 38 ford was in nz hot rod magazine back in may 1992 with his supercharged 327 small block chev bored to a 331 in it. and a small glimpse into his shed for max barrie points

cant remember how many pages posts it was to a page but cant be to many more