GregT

Changing the cams direction of rotation is only the start - and probably the easiest bit. Plus it's probably one of the ones affected by the recall. Honda haven't come up with a fix for the bolt breaking yet. The head gets stuck in the gearbox and locks everything up solid - which can and often does break the cases.

You appear to have dodged a bullet. 2018 and later goldwing engines have developed a fault and there's a recall. Two faults actually. Late fuel pump rotor disintegrates/swells up and seizes. And a LH thread torque to yeild bolt in the gearbox breaks and locks everything solid. Late 6 speed and semi auto boxes. Info on the goldwing forum.

You've opened Pandora's box here. Once you get into 2 stroke tuning you can go down some serious wormholes. Find A Graham Bell's 2 stroke tuning on line - there are free sites with it. Download it and read it. It's basic by current standards but it'll do you. Rebore as small as possible. Leaves some life in the barrel - and you aren't moving port edges very much.

While you're faffing around in the passenger side, lube the bloody cables to the bonnet and boot releases. they were so stiff on ours it was a right pain. And i believe the next owner actually broke one of the levers. Like the door catch, shit die cast pot metal.

There's a few sheet metal places in ChCh who would roll them up for you. Might even be worth asking the metal spinners too.

As promised. I'd think the pressure plate spacers would be the thickness of the extra friction plate plus the plain steel plus maybe .020-.040in. It'd be a case of mocking it up on the bench to see if the release mech fits or if the bellhousing needs spacing.

I've got quite a good drawing of how it's done in one of Phil Irving's books. I'll photograph it and post it tomorrow. Basically you space the pressure plate out about half an inch or less and fit a second friction plate - with the bosses thinned on both. And a plain steel plate driven by the pressure plate spacers goes in between. i was told that a circular saw blade is a good starting point for the plain plate.

If you're limited for space and a better pressure plate, what about twin-plating it ? Same pressure more torque capacity.

How'd the body hold up Sam ?

Put it on farm reg and stay within a 50km radius of home. Or not.

What is it about boxes in these things ? Guy down the road from the old place had one - Ford V6 and manual box. I walked into the local engineering firm one morning and he was stripping the gearbox on their bench. He'd got to the point where he couldn't get the mainshaft nut undone as the shaft was moving in the vice - with soft jaws at least. i have no idea where it came from - I suspect I was channeling the old man - i looked at it and asked if he had a spare driveshaft U joint. Yes, at home. Get it, put the splined end in it and the joint in the bloody vice. Chuckles all round and thanks Greg. A week later and he was crashing through the box outside my gate again.

When I was living out in Canty country I was amazed at some of the camber fuckups and alignment disasters you'd see on the open road. Helped that most of the roads were straight and flat. Followed a latish Commodore one evening and when she pulled over to answer a phone call - unusual in itself - I stopped to talk to her. Right rear had about 10deg negative and was pointing at the left front. Told her to get her husband to look at it pronto. No thanks of course. Truck and trailers you'd see with the back end of the trailer on the verge and the cab out on the centerline.

So you want something big enough to take down Bart ? I'd start the kids grooming Oscar now as either of those breeds will be regular hard work.

I can't help thinking I should point the Simpson family at a good cat groomer - and shout Oscar a good groom. Both Oscar and Bart would be happier.

Yeah, that's common sense. If it's drain down, there's always the option of a tap. And a large warning notice.

No idea if it's relevant to these engines but the first thing you do on a Ducati single is rebuild the oil pump. Bronze bushes with no seals so wear lets oil piss out and fill the side case. In your case I'd assume it's drain down from the tank ?

They're torquers, not huge HP makers. I'd imagine around 90hp at the wheels with what Alex has done to it.

Well done. Sounds typical Honda as you'd expect.

Piece of 7/8 tube sticking out and 3 of these would work.

They need the reality pointing out to them. It's sell to you or scrap it in a couple of years. X1/9's aren't going to suddenly crop up everywhere as projects. My limited experience with them wasn't good either.

google Car parts Canterbury. they have a site - and a small office in Hornby/sockburn Active on Bidbuddy - which i know nothing about.

Last time I was in contact with the wrecker in ChCh who has two shells, most of the interior was still in one. The problem with this wrecker is that their physical presence is tiny with the stock elsewhere and parts brought in to office by arrangement. No looking at the wrecks. I found them not very co-operative either.

For a bike this size and weight in my experience with pre82 racebikes you're looking for a trail figure between 88 and 98mm Less than that is unstable, greater is heavy steering. That's with modern 17in front on a 3.5in rim.

Kawasaki triples have less offset than the OE suzuki. Add in the larger tyre OD and i'd reckon trail's gone up quite a bit.

Seen worse. The chain itself would have kept things aligned. Looking at the front end, I suspect you're going to wind up with a very stable bike. The head angle plus the offset on the ZX triple clamps have given you a lot of trail. More suitable for drags than circuit use. As stock they steered very well on track but you've dialled in more trail which will make it feel heavy. We'll see.