As the title goes, lots of projects...
building this turbo bike, kawasaki turbo motor taken out to 810 with forged wiseco pistons, manual camchain tensioner and a garrett T3 turbo, this is what the plenum was for in the alloy welding thread I started :-
I promised lots of people it would be finished this year, but Ive just accepted a new contract that takes me away from my workshop for 3 months solid.
My "standard" gpz turbo, lots of modifications that are hopefully undetectable to the untrained (wifes) eye as Im supposed to be not modifying this one as it was such a clean example of a original bike. Im taking it to the dyno and expecing about 140hp at the rear wheel so the cat may be out the bag shortly concerning lots of parts I needed for the resto... The exaust system is the easiest to spot job on it, once that shiney tailpiece was a alloy downspout on our house guttering so I span it up on the lathe to clean it, turned a endcap and welded it in place, and the rest of the exaust was homemade too. It will always be a project, since Im always in the process of modifying yet another part or designing the next tweak. At the moment its in pieces getting a bigger diameter charge transfer pipe and a O2 meter. Its needed for security and to make the engine last longer if she reads this, honest..
This is my other beastie, it was once a 1977 gs750. I fabricated the frame apart from the headstock and front frame loop (keeping them all important numbers..) and pretty much everything has been changed or modified over the years, each piece undergoing evolution as it were. It went through stages of big carbs, turbo + fuel injection and today she stands like this, Id say about 70% through the current rework. But I did get a bit carried away. Its difficult to see from the shot, but wedged in where the airbox once lived is a SC12 supercharger from a MR2SC Toyota, with all custom fabricated manifolds. This feeds a air-air intercooler taken from a landrover up front, which feeds a custom fabricated intake manifold, in fact this is what the current job is. The drive is taken from the left side of the engine, with custom end cases, and uses a intermediate shaft to narrow the drive so I dont have to ride with my knee out, like I see in so many other s/c bikes. The inner drive also drives a gsx-r alternator as the top idler pulley on the belt run to give it a decent length/radius so it can stand 12000rpm lunacy.
Again fuel injected, using a megasquirt homebuilt fuel computer this time round. Ive taken the motor out to 838, but Im probally going to take it to 911cc because I can get low compression forged pistons easier in that diameter. For power, I doubt it will make anything like either of the turbo's but I dont really care, we've come a long way baby through the good times and the bad as the song goes.
Im sure when I pretty it up after the work itll be nice, Ive been told by two magazines to get in touch with pics when its shiney once again...
Besides that I have a xt500 supermotard thats a wip, but no pics, and Im reworking a nova/sterling but throwing away the beetle chassis and fabricating a tubular spaceframe myself. Engine is a RV8 3.9 (but always looking for a 4.6 for the right money ) with a 6-71 blower to go on top (its too big for the 3.9 hence wanting to go to a 4.6) mating to a renault un1 transaxle. I have ideas to make it lpg only as lpg is 120+ octane.. Oh and Im restoring a vw bay window camper for my wife.
We have some normal vehicles too thankfully. I even take my wifes mondeo to the garage for them to fix mostly...
building this turbo bike, kawasaki turbo motor taken out to 810 with forged wiseco pistons, manual camchain tensioner and a garrett T3 turbo, this is what the plenum was for in the alloy welding thread I started :-
I promised lots of people it would be finished this year, but Ive just accepted a new contract that takes me away from my workshop for 3 months solid.
My "standard" gpz turbo, lots of modifications that are hopefully undetectable to the untrained (wifes) eye as Im supposed to be not modifying this one as it was such a clean example of a original bike. Im taking it to the dyno and expecing about 140hp at the rear wheel so the cat may be out the bag shortly concerning lots of parts I needed for the resto... The exaust system is the easiest to spot job on it, once that shiney tailpiece was a alloy downspout on our house guttering so I span it up on the lathe to clean it, turned a endcap and welded it in place, and the rest of the exaust was homemade too. It will always be a project, since Im always in the process of modifying yet another part or designing the next tweak. At the moment its in pieces getting a bigger diameter charge transfer pipe and a O2 meter. Its needed for security and to make the engine last longer if she reads this, honest..
This is my other beastie, it was once a 1977 gs750. I fabricated the frame apart from the headstock and front frame loop (keeping them all important numbers..) and pretty much everything has been changed or modified over the years, each piece undergoing evolution as it were. It went through stages of big carbs, turbo + fuel injection and today she stands like this, Id say about 70% through the current rework. But I did get a bit carried away. Its difficult to see from the shot, but wedged in where the airbox once lived is a SC12 supercharger from a MR2SC Toyota, with all custom fabricated manifolds. This feeds a air-air intercooler taken from a landrover up front, which feeds a custom fabricated intake manifold, in fact this is what the current job is. The drive is taken from the left side of the engine, with custom end cases, and uses a intermediate shaft to narrow the drive so I dont have to ride with my knee out, like I see in so many other s/c bikes. The inner drive also drives a gsx-r alternator as the top idler pulley on the belt run to give it a decent length/radius so it can stand 12000rpm lunacy.
Again fuel injected, using a megasquirt homebuilt fuel computer this time round. Ive taken the motor out to 838, but Im probally going to take it to 911cc because I can get low compression forged pistons easier in that diameter. For power, I doubt it will make anything like either of the turbo's but I dont really care, we've come a long way baby through the good times and the bad as the song goes.
Im sure when I pretty it up after the work itll be nice, Ive been told by two magazines to get in touch with pics when its shiney once again...
Besides that I have a xt500 supermotard thats a wip, but no pics, and Im reworking a nova/sterling but throwing away the beetle chassis and fabricating a tubular spaceframe myself. Engine is a RV8 3.9 (but always looking for a 4.6 for the right money ) with a 6-71 blower to go on top (its too big for the 3.9 hence wanting to go to a 4.6) mating to a renault un1 transaxle. I have ideas to make it lpg only as lpg is 120+ octane.. Oh and Im restoring a vw bay window camper for my wife.
We have some normal vehicles too thankfully. I even take my wifes mondeo to the garage for them to fix mostly...