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Foots not much lighter here lol Guessing it's from the engine actually being able to breathe now in my case

Boost + cleaning all the EGR and breather scum out of the inlet

In follow up to my last post, just drove from home to Opotiki so about 150k of twisty hilly road. Last time I had no power to overtake and it was a slug on the hills, had closer to 3/4 tank than full left etc. This time it pulled up hill and overtaking and the needle is still on the top of the full mark!!

Took 8 odd hours, but I gave the 1kz in my van a bit of a birthday today, main issue was a leaking rocker cover gasket but since the floor has to come out and the boost pipe had to come off I figured I might as well ditch the EGR, cleaned a good 5mm thick layer of scum out of the intake ports, swapped the intake manifold, TB and boost pipe for ones that I had already cleaned out (+ my TB had a boost leak from fucked spindle seals and a hard/cracked gasket and the small butterfly linkage fell off years ago so was jammed open all the time) Also new glow plugs and a catch can (cheers for that @chris r) along with fresh oil etc etc. Turned out I had at least 3 boost leaks so with them fixed and the ports now back to full size it really goes a lot better than it has in years, back to being able to accelerate up decent hills from 100k rather than just hold 90 if I was lucky haha Rerouted the vac lines to get the small butterfly shutting on shut down, forgot how nice it is having smooth shutdown with these things! 3" exhaust next and if I can track one down I'd love to get my hands on the W2A intercooler set up from a 99-02 Super Custom.

303-312kph top speed for the 99 model, "limited" to 299k from 2000.

Well that goes without saying for American made bikes.

Heat gun no, element on your stove yes.

New piston arrived, still sitting in the package waiting for me to find the enthusiasm to attempt fixing the A50 again. But came across this gem while looking through a few pics at Mum's earlier Where it all started! haha

I noticed that too, $100 difference seems rather OTT!

3" dump to 2.5" at least seems to be the go, if not full 3". Edit: looked at a lot of 1kz exhaust and intercooler designs and dyno sheets etc. I'm going full 3" and a w2a barrel intercooler (or the kinda rare factory w2a set up) when I can find time and motivation to actually do it lol.

Second the vinegar, countdown home brand do a big bottle cheap. Dunno about leaving it for a couple weeks, I've found after a day or 2 the vinegar seems to lose it's grunt so I change it for fresh, another day or 2 and it's ready to be flushed and neutralized with baking soda then sealed (bit of oil heavy 2t mix has worked for me in the past.)

I've used those plugs on a few scooters, they work well! Just don't over squish the crimps

Those Briggs stickered Zenoah engines are a decent engine, was just parts availability that makes them uncommon these days. Bike carb and a small spanny would wake it up once she gets the feel for it! Remote kill is a good idea too

Vin exempt vehicle, just go into AA/VTNZ and ask for an MR2B, fill it out and then chat about the weather etc acting confident like you get a new plate everyday. It 100% has been registered in NZ before 2011, you just don't know the old plate number If they say it needs an inspection point out that that is for anything imported after 2011 so doesn't apply, if they still want to fuck you about go to another AA/VTNZ.

5/16 UNC for MK1, 12mm for MK2. Edit: that's coming from a UK Ford forum, but yeah thinking about it that's too small, the poster there seems to have put the size of the top shock nut for mk1 ha.

1/4" is what the Walbro ones have, think the Mikuni on my Husky is 1/4" too. https://www.walbro.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Walbro_FPC_pump_PS_EN.pdf Running one of them on my green Gyro

Wang a ride on pump at it?

https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/car-parts-accessories/performance/fuel-systems/listing/2906022472

Also it just hasn't got the torque range to pull 5th gear, maxes out 4th at 80-90 at ALL the rpm, change to 5th and it drops off pipe and sits on 65-70. Discovered on a steep downhill it will come on pipe eventually in 5th, but fuck it'll never get there without a big ass hill or a typhoon level tailwind! New piston is almost here, so I'll set it up again and just keep it as a city pester as it's a blast around town. Thinking CG125(?) disc front end and a few other improvements will be a good idea and also have thoughts on building something a bit more serious with my spare rolling frame.

Well that sucked. The forks started bottoming out a little on small bumps, then they stayed down and the front went light, front wheel washed out doing bang on 50k as it's a moped and it can't exceed 50k... Huge thanks to @Tumeke for pulling the bike off me, my leg was tangled in the kickstart. Also massive thanks to @johnnyfive for the punishing CT loaner!

@Mr Vapour

@tortron

Dunno about anyone else, but your pics are all working again now. Think it was just iforce being iforce haha