Send me a PM if you need help with the pictures.

Room for some negotiation?

 

Really enjoy my 2007 GSXR600 with the 2011 GSXR750 motor in it on the track

 

 

You could be a redneck if.............

I can see some potential there.

 

They are hidden in back yard out of sight (two are in the garage now) I'm stripping the decent parts off the third and getting rid of the rest of it. I have seen some places that have car wrecks all over the front lawn.
I assume a redneck is something like a bogan down here.

 

 

I am sure you are right but here in North Carolina we have to have a sofa on the front porch too. We have power sliding windows in the back glass of our pickup trucks so we can throw the beer cans and bottles into the bed. Toyota when they built the full size Tundra truck made the whole rear window drop down(power of course) because you might might get too drunk and miss that little window in the Ram, Ford, Chevy and GMC. I don't drink but it is fun to watch.

 

I got he first of the three running today, took a bit but it runs.

 

I spent to last two days sorting the wiring on the one that is destined for the track, removed every wire it won't need. Lights etc. Sorted it to a point where all I need connects and works. Turns over great! Next step was to drain the oil and fit the second set of rebuilt CVK's. (can assemble 4 x CVK with my eyes closed but have to ask questions here about twin SU's)
Drop the oil and green water comes out before the chocolate coloured oil.

Brush that engine off for now, I have a good sounding runner in the other bike, just move it over to this frame and good to go after I sort the brakes, suspension and all the rest.

This bike stuff comes naturally. Cars a different story, I know it is the same logic but not the same.

Same, same but different. If you know what I mean. I have been working as many years on both but bikes just seem easy, with cars I have to stop and think and ask questions. Once the job is done on a car I look back and think "that was just like doing a bike".

 

Hey Clarke, I remember the countless hundreds of carbs I've rebuilt on bike over the years. (yeah I can do them with my eyes closed too) Some of the ones I liked best, were the late 70's Kawasaki 900, and 1000's the non CV carbs. I espcially loved setting them with a 4 tube mercury synchronizer. When I was first introduced to the mercury tube synchronizer, it had lines on it about 3/4 of an inch apart. I was told all you had to do was get all 4 within the 2 lines, and it was good. Well being the Hot Rodder I'am at heart. I thought if that's good enough,what would happen if I could get them all virtually dead even. It should be better? Man was I right! when you got them that close, the throttle response was scary, how good it was. The CV carbs kinda took that away, but they are much more forgiving in tunability. If I could make the money working on Bikes i do working on School Buses, I'd definitely would be working on bikes. They are a whole lot more fun to test drive!

JTS

 

Greece is an ideal place to ride a 2wheeler as the weather most of the year is good.
Apart from my Lambrettas, I always enjoy riding my Triumph Bonneville 865cc EFI '08 and my Harley Davidson FortyEight 1200cc '14
I sold my Norton Commando Roadster '72 earlier this year.

 

Great work on the carbs o1xjr.
Stripped mine right down and cleaned them spotless. Got a stage 1 hybrid Dynojet jet kit in now.
Are you making a new loom?

 

Done, put it back in to check I had it turning over and had spark before stripping the bike to start the build. Keeping the running engine in the other bike for now so I can tune and balance the carbys with my new gauge set.

 

Nice work on the loom.
Ive found an auto electrician to look at mine because he will find the fault easily. It won't turn on the button, apart from that all the electrics work. I can't keep replacing parts and if might be a broken wire in the old loom. So it will be sorted soon.

 

I think I have ordered all the parts I will need without leaving my trusty XP lap top.

#1 The track bike, dead engine about to be displaced. Going to add forks etc from the donor.



#2 The test bed, it has the good engine so test and tune happens here. Engine going to be moved to #1. Destined to become track bike #2 when the two spare engines are built into one by Murray Scoble (Muz52) of Peninsula Jag Engine Centre. He's taking on the build as a fun project. (never touched a motorcycle engine before but he weaved magic on my XJ6).
Extractors blasted and painted in "cast" colour.



#3 the donor bike, Just siting out back being pillaged for parts.

 

A mate has set of 40 y/o mercury synchronizers I could use but they are a bit dodgy at best. These should do the trick.
They arrived today, another plastic box to go in the cupboard with the other things you buy and seldom use.

 

Yeah Clarke, those will do the job. Looks like a pretty complete set. The only advantage in using the Mercury tube synchronizer was the dead set accuracy. The guages if good quality will do nicely. Gauges back in the 70's were of the cheapo depot variety, for the most part. The ones with good gauges cost more then the Mercury tube unit so I never bought the good ones. I too have lots of boxes, of seldom used, test equip, pullers, expanders, and various other "Special Tools". But they're dang handy when you need them.

 

You can never have too many tools. We have local small supermarkets called ALDI and they have special deals every week or twice a week which includes a while range of workshop tools. I quite often succumb to that temptation. I haven't abandoned temptation for a compressor and tool sets yet.
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Now my current bike is almost there I'm already looking at new project bikes.
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I think I have all Aldi air tools, Tap & die sets, etc. I can't walk past without checking out what thy have. Paddock stand for $30, sweet.
New one arriving in a couple of days, as you say Busa, never too many tools.

 

Here in the USA "Aldi" is a food store. We have Harbor Freight tool stores, they offer the Chinese, Cheapo Depot stuff. to the actual good, and better tools. You won't find Craftsman, or SnapOn. But if you watch what you buy. You can get some great tools, for not a lot of cash.