FireHead

If you are properly motivated you can fix anything. If the crack in the cylinder is weldable, weld it, remachine it, toss a new sleeve in it, and you're done. :thumbsup:

That's sort of what I was thinking. I have "fixed" the rims of aluminum wheels that way from time to time. It's still not a real good fix, like you said it still has a high spot. There really isn't a way to fix it properly besides buying another one. I'm actually surprised that no one chimed in with the classic "heat it up with a torch and beat on it with a hammer" approach. :shoothead:

That is way too long of a swingarm for that motor and rider weight. :thumbsup:

I maybe should have mentioned that I would need to be going to the event inorder to be fair to my company, that is unless I can only get gate passes, in which case, I probably won't just randomly mail them out. If you remind a couple weeks in advance before the event I will check the free stuff pile for y'all. I have never seen Trans Am passes myself, so that's probably out. I personally had a pass last year to the SCCA run-offs, but other than that and the X-Games that's about all for that sort of thing I see. I have no idea about the NHRA events, they are sort of hit and miss as far as what I can get goes. Sometimes we will get hundreds of unused tickets and sometimes we don't get any. Like I said, remind me to look for something specific a couiple weeks prior to the event. :thumbsup:

My personal opinion is that it was just a hillbilly NASCAR thing, where it had pretty much been all they had run forever and changing to some thing new isn't something that goes over well with this series. Beyond that lead is also a lubricant, which means that you can get away with more from your valves and seats as well as your piston bores and rings. It's all bs anyway, I think the most of the fuss came from the media and the advertisers playing it up as something that could cause engines to fail, so that meant all of the executives thought that's what was going to happen. As far as I know the only person of any significance that lost a motor this weekend was Dale Jr. and that was due a rod letting go, which is probably more of a symptom of the state of DEI than anything else, from what I uderstand after talking to my v.p. this morning.

I was assuming we were starting machining with a hardened bar. Cermet insert tooling is fun to play with. :thumbsup:

I keyed in him just wanting to lower it. I think any difference you may see from the Elka link system may be neglibable (IMO). :thumbsup:

Yes, the blades you stick in the carb is what we are talking about. IMO is that this product is something that is designed to direct air flow through the carburetor. The trick is, that you shouldn't need to do that if you have a properly designed intake sytem, engine, and exhaust system (which is the case most of the time in stock form). Where this product provides "performance gains" is when you have a poorly designed or malfunctioning intake tract, engine, or exhaust, or you have modified any of those areas to such and extent that they are outside of their operational limits. It's a bandaid product in summary. Past that, by putting a device like that in your intake tract, you could potentially be reducing your engine performance levels. I say this based on the fact that air flowing over a surface at speed creates a boundary layer, which increases in size as speed increases up to the point of the speed of sound at which point the air will not flow any faster. Thus, to exaggerate a bit, the 2mm thick vanes in your intake tract are now 8mm thick conceptually. While they seem to promote this product as operation on a venturi effect, don't really buy it. On that principle, you would be just as well off sticking a cork with a hole in it in your carburetor. Maybe I'm wrong, as it was said here, I certainly do not own one of these gizmos. I am just speaking from experience (which I should have said earlier), but like I said, if somebody were to explain to me how it actually benefitted a properly tuned and functioning engine, I'd but it. :thumbsup:

If you need to get the cylinders re nik'd, your challenge is going to be how fast you can get them done. Your best bet is to send them to where you bought them from or to a big name engine builder. Sometimes local cycle shops can get it done as well, but in all cases, they are sending out to a thrid party. If you were in WA or CA, I could probably hook you up with a place to get it done. As for the billet bowls, since you're on gas, you may not need them. Making sure your tank vent and fuel lines are properly sized may be enough. If you were on alcohol then the bowls are a must in addition to possibly needing a fuel pump. It's a fairly common occurence to have a fuel supply problem like this in a heavily modified atv or motorcycle. :thumbsup:

That's a nice moose. I am pretty sure you can't bring up a moose in threag about Brooke and not mention a moose knuckle. :yelrotflmao:

I am having a hard time thinking of a way to fix a bent rotor from a Banshee and still have it function properly when you're done with it. I guess it all depends on how badly it was bent.

There's always Pismo in the spring and summer. I love going to Pismo in the summer. It's pretty hard to beat camping on the beach, riding, and surfing without ever having to get in your truck. :thumbsup:

Matt Kenseth (sp?) The same guy that one the Busch race. I think the highest placing car that we had was 10th. I think everyone was just happy that we didn't have any spectacular engine faulures. You wouldn't believe how many were losing sleep over the unleaded fuel change, even within my company. The funny thing was that we had been running an unleaded fuel motor in parallel with a leaded fuel motor with almost all of developmental dyno runs since we started putting together the Cup motor program, and upgrading the truck / Busch motor programs a couple years ago. ::

Interesting, piston ring generally fail more often on the exhaust side of a two stroke engine's piston as it is quite a bit hotter. I wonder why that happend to you?

Wow, I spaced that detail. You are 100% correct, Wiseco pistons are made from a forging while the stock units are made from a casting. The CTE of the material are greatly different in respect to the application, thus the rings are made to different shapes and dimensions (I am not sure how noticeable it is). Good catch! :thumbsup:

Re sleeving is no big deal. If you are wondering why that happened I would be willing to guess that the exhaust port was opened up to wide, the allowing a ring to hang. Thus, you get a result like you seem to have had. :thumbsup:

I am always down to go on a dune trip. The trouble is that I sometimes havbe to work weekends and can rarely ever get any of my buddys to go when I can go. :verymad:

You have to call Alba for the kits as they don't have them on their site. Depending on where you live, you may need the screens and the stickers to be legal. :thumbsup:

If you really want to fix the shocks you can always make a replacement shaft. All it is, is a few simple turning operations, some grinding, and some chrome plating. :thumbsup:

You missed out on a good race. It was a bit chilly, but it seemed like all the fans had a good time. :thumbsup:

I missed seeing the parachute guy go in the stands. Dale Jr. made a good run for a bit until he lost his engine. I am afraid that sort of thing may be something that is going to keep happening to him until DEI gets some of their stuff sorted out in Mooresville. Tony Stewart is cool guy, and quite talented. He's the type of guy that will settle a friendly arguement by wrestling with you. The ex-IRL and Champ car guys do pretty well in the superspeedway races. It was a bit colder than we expected today, which actually turned out to help us some, even though I had to have a sweatshirt on all day. It seemed like everyone was having a rough time with tires and no one really seemed to get a good handle on it. It's nice to be home and be in my own bed. It sounds like I may to commit to the same sort of thing for Vegas. I was really hoping I could just go spectate that race.

If you can explain the principles for how a product like this improves a properly functioning intake tract, then I am all ears. :thumbsup:

Not only are they not worth it, they carry the same stigma with them as the boost bottle. :thumbsup:

The DG pipes are better than stock pipes, but that's about it. I think they just have a bad reputation around here and not too many people used them. I bet you could make someone happy if you tried selling them on eBay. You never know what people will get excited over on there. :thumbsup:

I certainly don't want to dissuade someone from doing work on their bike themselves. I just want to give you the best chance at not screwing something up the firsttime you try it. :thumbsup: