Motor Build Thoughts.

[scottieducati]

Kind of horrifying how a simple motor build can spiral out of control into the several thousands of dollars.....

....discuss.

[Rambunctous]

Try a tz 250. Even better a rs125. Bang it out between practices.

[KawiSmurf]

...simple motor build...

Oxymoron?

[Jim]

because you touch yourself at night

[Rambunctous]

The old days it was simple. Plane the heads and port and polish. Maybe a blueprint and balance for some free horsepower and more reliablity. If you had bucks a ignition and then a cam and bigger carb. Now you get a chip.

[SSearchVT]

From the old Fram oil filter ads - You can pay me now, or pay me later. It also depends on how much work you do yourself.

Besides - if you didn't spend it on bikes where would it go? Hookers and blow? You'd still be broke.

[butcher bergs]

Seems straightforward to me.

Take engine apart, pack as much money in there as you can, reassemble and torque bolts per manufacturer's specs.

[Wishbone]

Seems straightforward to me.

Take engine apart, pack as much money in there as you can, reassemble and torque bolts per manufacturer's specs.

Son of a

I knew I was doing it wrong.

What works best, coins, bills or plastic?

[Pittenger5]

I find it easy. Pull motor, drop off at tricky mikes, dont let dog eat me while Im there, return in a month with blank check, put back in bike.

[Sheppo]

what's even more funny is once you 'build' said motor.. most of the time you've built the reliability right out of it.

[Tricky Mike]

I find it easy. Pull motor, drop off at tricky mikes, dont let dog eat me while Im there, return in a month with blank check, put back in bike.

A month? Don't rush me. Fuck's sake.

[Rambunctous]

What do you do to it besides change the oil and clean it and tell to go slow for the first 2000 miles?

[butcher bergs]

Son of a

I knew I was doing it wrong.

What works best, coins, bills or plastic?

You can fit more money in there if it's all in greenbacks. You wanna pack it in there as tightly as possible and really try to avoid using anything less than 50's.

Plastic tends to break down over time and coins are too heavy.

[Degsy]

what's even more funny is once you 'build' said motor.. most of the time you've built the reliability right out of it.

Which is exactly why I spend my time sending "you're out of your mind" textx to scottie. I should program a function key on my bberry with "You're out of your mind Scottie"

[DuncanMoto]

Scottie... you need some help. maybe MAA (motorcycle addicts anonymous)

[DesmoTull]

Wirelessly posted (BlackBerry8330/4.5.0.77 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 VendorID/105)

Didn't you live under the same roof as I when I "attempted" to rebuild a Ducati? ???

[csmutty]

Scottie... you need some help. maybe MAA (motorcycle addicts anonymous)

AA is fer quitters.

[scottieducati]

That's why this is a Honda.

And MAA is for quitters.

A little 400 can't possibly match what I sunk into my 848, so I figger....

Bah what the hell.

[scottieducati]

Nothing to see here.....

1mm Over, High Comp Pistons (4) $553
Cylinder Boring and Coating $500 ??
Cylinder Head Porting $400 ??
5-Angle Valve Job $300 ??
Balance Crank, Rods and Pistons $500 ??
Transmission under-cut $250 ??
Engine clean + restore $??
Cryo Treatment $ ??
Engine rebuild kit (gaskets + bearings) $250

Do de doo...

[obsolete]

Are the stock rods a big failing point?

[Qfactor]

Tear it down a 4-stroke to rebuild it as a 2-stroke...

works everytime.

Q

[scottieducati]

hahahhaa, that's what degs' said I was crazy about.

Likely going to cryo the stockers and call it a day, shouldn't be that big a deal considering this isn't a "big bore" motor.

Are the stock rods a big failing point?

[scottieducati]

I love 2 smokes.... someone DID put an RGV500 motor in an NC-30 frame once....

hmmm...

Tear it down a 4-stroke to rebuild it as a 2-stroke...

works everytime.

Q

[butcher bergs]

Nothing to see here.....

1mm Over, High Comp Pistons (4) $553
Carrillo H-Beam Steel Rods (4) $1,200
Cylinder Boring and Coating $500 ??
Cylinder Head Porting $400 ??
5-Angle Valve Job $300 ??
Balance Crank, Rods and Pistons $500 ??
Transmission under-cut $250 ??
Engine clean + restore $??
Cryo Treatment $ ??
Engine rebuild kit (gaskets + bearings) $250

Do de doo...

You don't wanna learn how to ride the thing first before going forward with all this?

[Qfactor]

You don't wanna learn how to ride first?

fixed it for ya, bergs

Q