Popular Post 64valiant Posted October 28, 2024 Author Popular Post Posted October 28, 2024 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 13 Quote
Popular Post 64valiant Posted November 2, 2024 Author Popular Post Posted November 2, 2024 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. 26 2 Quote
Popular Post 64valiant Posted November 29, 2024 Author Popular Post Posted November 29, 2024 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. 10 3 Quote
64valiant Posted December 10, 2024 Author Posted December 10, 2024 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. 5 Quote
GregT Posted December 10, 2024 Posted December 10, 2024 If you still had the 16in front it may have made the bike unstable at the top end. The 17 front has given you some more trail which equals stability. At some point the CV carbs have been rejetted for the pods. Running without is roughly equal to #10 smaller in mainjet size. I'd do a few precautionary plug chops. I've done enough 1100 heads to be wary of running for long periods without filters. Race engines, fine. Road, not so much. Edit - Probably not what you wanted to hear. But damage the head or hole a piston and it gets very spendy very fast. And good heads are rocking horse poo. 3 Quote
64valiant Posted December 10, 2024 Author Posted December 10, 2024 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. 3 Quote
440bbm Posted December 10, 2024 Posted December 10, 2024 who was the dyno tuner greg? not ol mate in paeroa? 1 Quote
64valiant Posted December 11, 2024 Author Posted December 11, 2024 7 hours ago, 440bbm said: who was the dyno tuner greg? not ol mate in paeroa? 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. Quote
440bbm Posted December 11, 2024 Posted December 11, 2024 id be a bit hesitant tbh. i used him for reflashing the trident ecu with the UK tune and tidying it up a little after the runs to get the mixtures better. ALOT of very mixed reviews for carb tuning and anything to do with race bikes he has alot of mixed results. alot of people hate him and wouldnt advise to go there.. So just be careful mate. 1 Quote
64valiant Posted February 23 Author Posted February 23 but then again i just do really long posts Quote
64valiant Posted February 23 Author Posted February 23 lets see if i can get these done and then my update before i have to go do any work Quote
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