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You don't necessarily need a 5-axis machine to get the job done. If you are willing to do a few more clampings you can get just as nice of product in the end. I have no idea what retail would need to be for what I am working on? I wouldn't be doing this project if the owner of American Metal Supply didn't have a local sprint car racing fetish (I slip him tickets every once in awhile). Each billet for a case half is about $500 retail and If I had to guess the billet for the cynider block is about $1000 retail. Plus, all the other blocks of aluminum and steel for the other parts and fixtures add up real quick. The bar that I am making alot of my crankshaft out of it would cost a normal person about $6000 and you would have to wait one or two years to get it (god damn Aubert & Duval). Is this software something you created in house or is it a MathCad based sort of thing?

I'll try to get on that tonight. I need to see if I can bribe my current secretary at work do this stuff for me.

Blue Sparkle is pretty scarey.

I have been considering trying a set of UNI pods instead of the K&N filters that I am using now. The K&N filter seem to pack full of crap no matter what.

Are you talking about the lake bed right now or the lake bed in general? If you are talking about it in general, I am going to have to call b.s. on that. :ermm:

Are you using stock Banshee pistons.............? I think I should have specified what pistons I was using. I think the you maybe right about the Wiseco Banshee pistosns. The Blaster pistons and YZ pistons are a certainly different. I think I may have made the pistons that are in my red bike the more I think about it. I supposed it will be like opening a Christmas present when that engine fianlly lets go. I am a bit curious as to what the software you wrote does? Is it just an fancy excel sheet or are you actually doing some rudementary simulation? I personally feel that even the newest Cheetah DM cylinders leave a bit to be desired. If I were buying cylinders I think I would be looking to get ahold of something from Twister. Instead, for some reason, I think it will be fun to make my own cylinder block for my triple.

You must have a special filter. I have to dig all kinds of crap out of mine. :ermm:

It will be interesting to see of my truck still passes the emissions test. I think it's been a couple years since I had to have it checked. After I cut down my list of places to live to around four places, would you mind checking them out on a map to make sure I am not moving into a bad neighborhood or setting myself up for an epic commute?

Who's playing at the concert?

I didn't know McMaster sold tie rod ends? I knew they sold heim joints. You're not confusing the two things are you? :ermm:

You most certainly can put a piston more than 3mm out of the bore. I think I am about 5mm out of the bore on my red bike. Depending on the port design of the aftermarket sleeve, you may or may not have to add material to the stock cylinder areas to achieve a workable transfer tunnel and proper port matching. I did not add any material to the cyclinders or the case on my red bike. While I will agree that what I have done was not the best use of my time if it were measured against horsepower made, but I certainly had fun doing it. It is very ignorant to state the stroke and port limitations the way you did on the basis of there being better options out there. If you were to aks me if I would do what I have done with some of my engines over again, I would have to think about it for awhile before I would say no. If I hadn't done that stuff previously, I would never have had enough experience to build my triple now. :geek:

If you find anything on the internet about Titan selling them I would like to see it. There are couple guys that I work with that have threatened to beat me up and take my tires (j/k) and I am sure they would be interested in anything you came up with. :thumbsup:

I agree. :thumbsup:

Instead of splined, do you mean reamed? Ricky Stator or Janssenn sell a nice tie rod end.

If you can resleeve the cylinders yourself, then it might still make economic sense. If not, then you are correct in saying that there are better options out there.

I am trying to move clase to work and I am having shitty luck trying to find a place that is less than 15 miles from work. If I had to drive from the Gresham area, on I84 for a commute, how long do you figure that would take? Does Oregon do any emissions testing?

Checker, Schucks, or Kragen carry the exact product Meat used. It baffles me that is the kind of stuff I remember, when it is near impossible for me to remember my own address or phone number.

A monoque composit axle would be neat, but it would be alot of work. All the bearing and joint areas would need to be made out of anodized aluminum and bonded to the composite axle. To the axle right, I would need to make a good mandrel and have access to an autoclave. I suppose if I found a commercially made composite tube of the right wall thickness and diameter then it wouldn't be so much work. I don't think the neato factor is enough of a motivation for me to get a project like that going.

Of course you are also talking about the same guy that started a thread on how to polish his cylinder base nuts.

I grew up in Washington, so I fully understand the moist nature of the area.

I am curious as to what makes that axle stronger than the JJ&A units? One would think the a fully splined axle like that would not be as strong as a keyed or partially splined axle.

No, it shouldn't make it hard to jet. Not having the hoses connected makes your powervalves not function though, which probably cuts the amount of power you are making by up to half. You would have been better off removing the powervavlves as opposed to just not connecting the hoses.

Who is selling the Titan Bandit style tires? I haven't seen them on the market yet.

Dammit, I looked at the barbecue picture in your signature and got hungry again.

I really don't know anything about them other than what my co-worker tells me or shows me on the internet. Supposedly, the world's largest gathering of Hodaka owners is in New York once a year.