What's going on in your garage? Part II

[Tom MLC]

Lot's of big plans for all my scooters.

The red hot rod gets a Kerker header scored on ebay, carb rebuild & jetting, and a 530 chain conversion. For looks she gets a fairing on the front end and a custom seat.

The GS1100 gets a head gasket replaced, valve job maybe, V&H pipes, carb job. Maybe I'll paint the fairing to match the bike.

The new toy, '78 GS1000C will be returned to stock as much as possible. The custom seat goes to the red hot rod. The V&H goes to the 1100. I have a very good stock seat, and a beautiful set of stock pipes. She will also need side covers, but that's about it.

Then I gotta start ebaying all the other stuff to fund my projects.

 

[BentRod]

Not so much the garage as just under a tarp in the drive way

my GS400L project. she runs but she's no where near legal (What, you need wheels??? and BRAKES??)

my other, although definately not in my garage, winter project of mine, is an engineering Concrete Toboggan. Thats 300lbs of specialy mixed concrete (mainly portland cemment) and 7071 aluminum, carrying 5 mildly intoxicated Canadian engineering students down a blue run at a ski hill. This year the Great North Concrete Toboggan Race, GNCTR, will be in Manatoba.

If you are interested at all, check out http://www.eng.mcmaster.ca/toboggan/
there should be at least a few pictures up of last year's toboggan.


Yes, we are ALL completely loopy

 

[Tom MLC]

my other, although definately not in my garage, winter project of mine, is an engineering Concrete Toboggan. Thats 300lbs of specialy mixed concrete (mainly portland cemment) and 7071 aluminum, carrying 5 mildly intoxicated Canadian engineering students down a blue run at a ski hill. This year the Great North Concrete Toboggan Race, GNCTR, will be in Manatoba.

Yes, we are ALL completely loopy

Sound like the Canadian version of "HEY YA'LL, WATCH THIS!"

Sounds like fun!\\/

 

[RacingJake]

Sounds like fun \\/ I guess it doesn't have any brakes??? or at least until you hit something really big????

 

[rosco15]

Jake what are you doing for a basket. Get your parts together yet?

 

[RacingJake]

Hey Ryan Merry Xmas to you and Mark too!!!

Scotty was nice enough to send me his old basket. Thanks Scotty!!!

I got everything need to put it back together but Grandma's in town so it's on the back burner. I found another crack in one of my MTC pistons??? don't know what's up with that, may try another brand cause they seem alittle weak in the skirt area.

This year I'm going bar less with a 180 shinko tire and no delay box either. Should be alot different from the past and when I hit on the NOS will see if i can still ride it :-k

We got a guy that ride a ZX14 and I want to see if I can hang with him on the nos, should be alot of fun.

 

[Busafied]

I updated my website. There is now a link to all of the pictures of the AirBorn's coating. It turned out very nice, maybe a little too nice for my bike. I would recommend them. Took about 1 week to do this job.

I just checked the link out to your site, and read further into the post and saw the pics.
They look great!

Now I just have to get the time and do some mods to mine, before I send them out-

thanks,
Ron

 

[BentRod]

Gnctr

Gnctr

ya we have brakes... its part of the competition to stop as fast as possible. normal speed at the bottom is about 65km/h +/-5km/h and you stop as fast as possible.. not unusual to see a guy shoot out the front.

and ya, it's more like, "Hey! you know what would be really funny?"

its right in there with sitting in a recycling bin, getting pulled by a pick up truck on the end of a rope around the student ghetto

 

[lecroy]

Welcome from the great white north, or green north I guess. We have a little snow up here.

I was visiting my mother and took a look in her garage to see what all I had left behind. I try to clean out a little more evey time I visit, then comes eBay. This time I uncovered some very cool parts. Does anyone remember Martek? I had found the coils way back and sold them on eBay but found the ignition for it this time. This setup was way ahead of its time. Using photo diodes in the 70's for a pickup. I could not find the actual rotor for it.

Glad you were able to look at the AirBorn pictures I posted. They did a great job considering what they had to work with. We had the kids pipes plated last year by HPC and they turned out very dull in comparison. Not saying that the actual performance of the two coatings would be any different. One just looks nicer. In my case, I really don't care. The bike won't win best of show anywhere.

Ryan, still thinking about the drain holes. Not sure I buy into it doing anything for you. I would guess, based on my own experience, that it would do more harm than good. The reason I write this is because every time I pull the covers off, the dust seems to be collected in this chamber. The stock design almost seems to act as a filter for the dust. I would rather it hang up there than in the oil system. We use solid input shafts, or plug the pee holes on the Suzuki's so the sliders run dry.

Jake, good to hear that Scotty came through for you. I tore down the $500 junker last week. It was all stock and the clutch is in usable condition. I will hang onto it if you break another. Was half expecting to see the next post after Ryan's to be Scotty blasting him for yet another post about the clutch. LOL LOL. I have not seen any posts from him after his new engine took a dive. Hope it wasn't too major of a breakdown.

An old friend of mine from grade school passed away while I am home visiting. When I got out of high school I left the area to further my education. When I returned I bought the first GS1100ESD. I took the bike to a local parts store and when I came out, there was this 900 sitting right next to the GS. On my fuel tank someone had wrote Suzuki's are slow, or something to the like. I did way too much street racing in those days and started asking who owned the dark blue Kaw. It was easy to find because the guy who owned it painted the header like barber poles, white and red. I found out it was my old friend Dave. I remember him doing all kinds of crazy things to that 900. Lots of motor mods, but also some very strange paint schemes. He was always painting the headers. After the MadMax movie came out he just had to do the circle with the line through it. We both started going to the drag races and had a lot of good times. He was the type that would do anything for you and try to help anyway he could. I used to be a big gun nut. I loved shooting high power CF (center fire). I remember once talking about trying to make a plastic bullet that would burn off the marks as it was fired. Dave worked at a plastics company and we made some prototype bullets that I loaded. These things were a hoot to shoot. They never went through the target nice and clean. Some would tumble. Some would explode in the chamber. One time I dropped over to Dave's house and he has the new Van Halen record that has that all too cool drum solo in the beginning. He cranks it up (sounding like a fueler) and then hands me some white looking rubber things. Here he had made a mold to made his own spark plug boots and made some custom ones from white rubber. I still have these in my tool box. Dave got married and I guess I just never grew up so we lost touch with one another.

God Speed Dave

 

[rosco15]

I finally started going crazy in the garage. I need to change the crank to one with an 1100 gear and am switching to a slider for next year. I'm also working on a way to add an air cylinder to the slider and ride it back. Would like bigger cams, but don't know how the money will hold out.

The motor is out, I just need to split the cases and pull the crank out. I had switched to a dry block setup with a top end oiler with the plug removed. I had some galling with the wrist pins last time I took it apart. The wrist pins, small end of the rods, pistons, block, cams, rockers all look great. Very happy with the dry block setup. I'm going to put it back together the same way.

I shipped a new crank core to Stan at GRC a couple weeks ago. he called yesterday to say it was done already. Gave him a CC and I should have it by next week. Welded ,balanced, and trued. new rod bearings, new left end, new #6, new straight cut 1100 gear. It's amazing how fast you can put a grand into a crank.

Thanks to lecroy I've added a third button, power by sower, to the left handlebar. That makes 3 over there. Launch, Shift, and Ride back Slider. All wired up and ready to go. Also an air cylinder and regulator on the panel under the seat for the slider. Just need some plugs to get that finished. I get my plugs from a guy that used to run a local bike shop. He won't tell me where he gets them so I'm at his mercy.

The fairing on the bike has been cracking in a couple places. It's one of those plastic maier fairings. I'm thinking rather than try and repair it I should replace it. I'm thinking about going to something more aerodynamic. Maybe this one from Beasley.
http://www.beasleycomposites.com/images/Drag_Bike_images/Suzuki/440.gif

 

[lecroy]

It's amazing how fast you can put a grand into a crank.

http://www.beasleycomposites.com/images/Drag_Bike_images/Suzuki/440.gif

I am with you on the crank. Pearson did four 493 rods on that last one for around a grand. Too bad those I-beam rods did not work out for you.

The fairing looks a lot nicer than the original. I think it would add to the looks of the bike. Maybe a little less drag too?

So, I'm not the only one gulling pins. The last set from MTC seem to be holding up just fine. I really slopped on the assembly lube last time and followed Terry's long drawn out break-in proceedures. I also changed oils. I am not so sure that they were not being damaged by a little pre-ignition. I need to ship my last crank off yet. This should answer the gulling question for me.

 

[rosco15]

 

[lecroy]

Looks too darn nice all poilished up and all. Where did that nice new 1100 gear come from? I was looking on your site to see if I could find more pictures of Gardner's welds. Did he just change the gear on your 750 geared crank, or was this a whole tear down job?

Came across this while looking around. Now this is a simple way to mod one. Any idea why they used two tubes on the stock pickup?

I shipped the case off to be machined. We have one other sent out and I guess one other one showed up. They are going to cut them all at the same time so I should have it back week after next. Waiting to hear on my last crank and if they can save it or not. So I'm on hold.

The new nitrous tank is still sitting here. We have more time in phone calls than the tank was worth. This will be the last purchase I make from NOS.

 

[RacingJake]

I'd tried that last year and had some problems with oil pressure at launch. So I drop my pan and turned it back toward the front and still had pressure at launch. Maybe my problem was that it didn't seal right or better yet the oil was just shooting past the tube's before the vacuum had a chance to pick it up ???

Pointing it forward the oil can flow right in the tube, but having the tubes facing the rear the oil can't change direction (180 degrees) during launch????

 

[rosco15]

That is a whole new crank with a new gear. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with the other crank with the 750 gear yet. It looks like the day I put it in. I'm not sure about the two tubes. Thats another one of those things I just picked up and started doing as I build my own motors. I do run the 750 gears on the oil pump.

I'll try and get some weld pics for you.

 

[lecroy]

I'd tried that last year and had some problems with oil pressure at launch.

You still have a pressure light?

Did you pinch off the side tube like Ryan's, move the tube like me, or just leave it all open(stock)? Even if you left it stock, seems strange that it would stave this way and not when you pointed it forward.

 

[lecroy]

That is a whole new crank with a new gear.

No wonder it looks so nice. All new rods, bearings and gear then? What rods did you go with?

We run the same gears, but it doesn't seem like this would be the probem Jake is seeing.

 

[RacingJake]

You still have a pressure light?

Did you pinch off the side tube like Ryan's, move the tube like me, or just leave it all open(stock)? Even if you left it stock, seems strange that it would stave this way and not when you pointed it forward.

I just used one of the idiot lite's from the gauge cluster and super glue the rubber housing to my shift light, works good and it was free.

No mods to the pickup tubes, I just turned it around until the bolts holes line up. Maybe the oil was flowing in one tube and out the other. With it pointed to the rear sometimes the oil light would come on right before the 60ft line. It was alittle strange and not normal for me so I changed it back and never had the lite come back on afterwards.

 

[rosco15]

Sorry, same rods. New left end, new #6, new rod bearings, new 1100 SC gear. here are 2 pics of the welds on each end. Easiest to take a pic of.

http://rccracing.com/Picture 1976.jpg

http://rccracing.com/Picture 1977.jpg

 

[rosco15]

Stopped at Beasley Fiberglass today and had the owner show me a bunch of their fairings. I decided to go with my original though and picked up the Koening pro-mod style fairing. Did some test fitting today. I think painted red it should look pretty sweet. I think the final mount should be tipped forward just a hair more than in this pic.