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Everything posted by Kimjon
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Yes, yes I have. 50cc ported and polished kids motoX bike engine adapted to a scrub bar. I went big, using every trick I know to get the most power out of stock parts. I cut up an old yz125 expansion chamber and scaled it down using random bits from my round tube box. Machined up adapters upon adapters, to make all the parts work together and boom...here we are. It's running sweet. A tad rich, but that's easy to fix. Needs a fuel tank, then it'll be slaying weeds like a boss!
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For not that many hours, I'm calling it one of my most satisfying projects. I've got a nicer benchtop, some matching matt black 52 decals, the missing lefthand Vespa badge and a black beach umbrella on order. That should tidy it up. There's a chilli bin inside to keep drinks cold. I'm calling it a win.
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Slapped the door handles on, then got my wife to push me around in circles on the driveway...living the dream.
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Here's an original for comparison. Remembering I've chopped the roof, and changed the A pillars and a bit of other stuff, so it's not quite apples with apples. But its got the overall look so I'm stoked. This project has had massive scope creep from "get it going, leave it rusty" to what it is now.
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Yeah boi! Two doors!! Two fucking doors!!! It was wildly ambitious to take this on given I'm learning by doing. But here we are, two doors done.
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Number 2 (actually number 3...but we don't talk about the first door and the days of my life I won't get back). This one took only an hour to make, as I had the template and the knowledge from the last 1 (2...grrrr).
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So I totally fucked my first door i made above. I didn't realize that bead roller dies need to be swapped around when going from working on the outside, to working on the inside. And that 3 side go one way, then 4th needs opposite dies, or that working on things upside-down needs opposite dies...lots of learning. Plus add in a small throat of 485mm and limiting factors and yeah...you get the idea. But...I got it right the second time. Well, it's not perfect, definitely some room for improvement. But its going on, and I'll now be focusing on the other door now.
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Test fit. Not bad...not bad at all. Now I need to call in another set of hand to bead roll the inner stepped down section and window frame. Hopefully this doesn't buckle the panel and turn it into scrap! One again, I've rake all practical steps by rolling the panel in the English wheel pre stretching it...so fingers crossed.