Track Stories 08

[RacingJake]

About 95% done with a 64" WB

She's at 1395cc's again so it should be fun. From what I can tell we will only have one motorcycle class so the box might be coming off for awhile.

 

[Baatfam]

Alrighty....let's get ready to rumble...

I need to get my pipes re-cerachromed and send in my slider basket for a rebuild....
Then it's T&T time come April.....\\/

'08....should be great!

Bob T.

 

[lecroy]

Jumping the gun just a little? It's 2007 still. I got the new ebay cases tore down, cleaned up and shipped out today to be bored. They looked pretty good other than I had to pull the lower studs and they were put in with some tremendous torque and adhesive. Strong enough that I actually snapped one stud when removing them. Not a big deal but was surprized.

Got the Wearables pre-filter. Pretty nice part. Looks like it seals good and should help keep the filter clean.

One of the kids cars took a crap over my vacation so we tore into the engine. Ford 3.0 V6 with single cam. Head was cracked. Went to the junk yard, got two heads, both were cracked. Had junkyard remove two more heads from a motor. One was cracked and one was good. Very thin casting and all were cracked on the same valve, same cylinder, same spot. All were over 100K miles, but come on. Weak design.

 

[RacingJake]

Yeap Xmas is over so it's time to get back to racing \\/

I just got to bolt the bottle in and buy one of those big car type run/off switch and I'll be ready to rumble too!!

 

[RacingJake]

Up to 99% now, got the battery switch hooked up.

Just got to hook up my kill switch string to my new gloves now :lol:

Can't really tell there's a bigger battery and a 2.5 lb bottle in there ??

 

[Baatfam]

Posted in the 2WheelSpeed forum at Dragbike.com:

Dan and I are taking next year off from 2Wheelspeed,we just need a break,we are not saying bye bye,just taking a year off from promoting,we will be racing.Byron will be running the following classes this year dragbike,street bike,same format,super stock same format,shoot-out,same fomat,say good bye to pro-400,hot street,e class harley.Byron is talking about 4 weekends, pay-outs should be similar. What will you be missing,2008 t-shirt,pig roast,which we still could have if anyone takes charge and organizes it,dvd,which I bet someone will do anyway.Thanks to everyone that has supported us.Now I can park away from the tower and relax alittle.

Well now what?
Pro400 gone and I was doing well with that.
I don't want to try and set the bike up for bottom bulbing...I've tried before and it didn't go well.

Right now I'm thinking box racing at RT66 and maybe make a few box races further away....
I can use those four weekends to do some much needed work on the house...:?

I'm just afraid this could kill the series....Ah well, nothin' last forever...

 

[lecroy]

Come and join us up at Martin in the car class. A little far to drive, but the track is very nice.

 

[Baatfam]

Come and join us up at Martin in the car class. A little far to drive, but the track is very nice.

Something to consider....

Martin is nice! We were there for the bracket finals last fall and really liked the place....

 

[lecroy]

I am not yet 100% sure about top and mod classes, but it seems that is the talk so you may be able to keep your box. Always good to see some new faces.

 

[lecroy]

It was in the 60's today. Could have taken the bikes out if they would have dried the track for us. Where is the snow?

We are having a small get together this weekend. We finally got some videos of the kid during his class. I'll see about posting them once I make a copy.

 

[lecroy]

We all got to see the videos from Frank's class last night. I ripped the final pass of the kid. A little hook to the left but not too bad.

http://videos.streetfire.net/video/c4def6a7-1859-4089-b036-9a2200e2d575.htm

 

[rosco15]

Man thats awesome. I would love to do that. Hell just to run in the 8's would be awesome.

 

[lecroy]

Many of the guys in the class had not been in the 8's before the class. All of them ran at least in the 8's during the last pass. Their weight was the biggest problem, and not riding streight.


The DVD had everyone's runs on it. I used DVD Decrypter to get it to the hard drive. Then used Videora to make it into MP4. Then used MP4cam2AVI to get it back into AVI. MovieMaker wouldn't read the AVI file and used the KLMcodec package to get the codecs for it.
Read it all into MovieMaker. Then chopped it up and spit it back out. Wonder why things are so crappy, now you know. Is there an easier way to edit DVD video directly? Help!!!!

 

[rosco15]

With the off time I've been getting myself into a bit of trouble. Not enough going on in the garage maybe?

What do you think. Sticker or the real thing?
http://rccracing.com/s1.jpg

 

[lecroy]

Real thing

 

[RacingJake]

I'd figure it would of been a Dragbike :wink:

 

[lecroy]

I took the red motor apart yesterday and got the other new cases out of the paint booth. Ended up just doing black. Ended up just using them but left all the studs in the red cases. Plan to weld the red ones and keep them as a spare set.

This is how it ended up..

Stock 1100 cases. Cleaned, machined and painted.
Rebuilt the starter motor with new brushes.
Dyna SP4000 pickup and rotor. Plan to stay with MSD for the ignition.
Ward oil pickup and stock pan.
New oil pump and gears, 750 ratio.
Orient Express / R&D transmission rebuilt by FBG with billet output, 2nd and 3rd. New HD bearings and springs. Full race cut, no auto.
New forks and moly rods.
APE lower/ upper stud kit.
1100 big end crank, built by Pearson with new 493 rods, new MTC gear, all new bearings and full weld.
MTC billet clutch basket with SC gear. 1100 ratio.
MTC multi-stage lockup.
FBG plates.
Star clutch cover.
APE custom made tool steel wrist pins.
MTC 8:1 pistons, 1428cc w/ teflon buttons.
Cometic head gasket and spacer.
MTC block, O ringed
1100 head, FBG installed some larger SS valves, titainium keepers, PS springs with 70/65 lbs seat pressure In/Ex. Topped it all off with some port work.
APE cam sprockets.
APE chain tensioner.
Web cams.
Ward top end oiler with Mr. Turbo oil pickup.
All the bearings and seals are also new.

 

[RacingJake]

Nice Mark, so how much boost this year ??

 

[lecroy]

Not sure. I learned a lot last year about the tuneup and was trying to conserve $$$ while I figured it all out. I left the cams out of the motor to keep the load off the springs. Keeping my fingers crossed that this motor can sit out for a few years... Part of the reason it had to come apart was to make some of the changes that were done to the other motor. A lot to learn.

I was dropping the boost at the end of last year year. These motors will make maybe 100HP without boost. That's why my 60's are so poor (1.27-1.30). Figure 7-8 HP / PSI of boost. Never had one on a dyno, but these are Terry's numbers. I calc. HP based on weight, weather and E/T with my logger and it seems close. I reduced the boost 8PSI from the prior year but gained 0.25 off the E/T. Huge change. A lot of this was getting the clutch, gearing and shift points figured out. Plus a little driver improvement. LOL I have a few more things I want to try to see if it helps before I turn it back up.

My goal this year is the same as last year, get it into the 7's. Last runs I was all the way down to 10 PSI and running 8.50s. So I still think 25 PSI will get me there.

 

[madjack57754]

I don't know if you guys have seen this before but Mike Berry makes these for the ProStock bike guys. Uses Milwaukee 18V cordless drill batteries. I bought his old Trac Dynamics Chassis bike last summer and it came with the 14.4 volt battery set up. I reworked an e-bay bought charging station for my funnybike laydown chassis and now use the cordless drill batteries in both bikes. Fast and easy to swap batteries, and you can pick up everything you need pretty reasonable used in the pawn shops of fleebay. I have a double battery charging station in the pits so I have fresh batteries ready at all times. This is the slick setup as far as I'm concerned. No more hooking up a battery charger between rounds