Continuing with the upgrades, I bought myself some early Christmas presents from Cappellini Moto (http://www.cappellinimoto.it/?language=en). I bought a refurbished oil pump with an oversized piston to make sure the oil flows well. I also bought an oil filter kit that adds an actual oil filter to the bike and has an outlet for an external oil line. It mounts into the side cover where the original oil "filter" is.
Since I was planning to run an external oil line to the head, I needed a way to connect the line to the cam covers. I saw that Franco had some covers with fittings already installed. THEN, I saw he had covers with the fittings installed AND a needle bearing conversion installed. I always thought the cams spinning in the solid cam cover bushings was kind of a goofy design, so I sprung for the covers with the needle bearings installed.
To complete the needle bearing conversion, the ends of the cams have to be turned down to fit into the bearing sleeves. For this I turned to Mr. E over at Mr. E Machines and his vintage lathe. He made quick work of my cams and they now fit into the bearings perfectly.
To complete the oil filter install, one of the oil passages needed to be blocked off and rerouted. Mr. E tapped some threads into the current oil passage and installed a set screw to close it off. Then he used his overly-complicated drill press to make a new hole per Cappellini's instructions.
Finally, since I will be running an external oil line to the head, I needed to block off the stock oil passages that run up the two cylinder head bolts. To do this, we again tapped threads into the oil passages we wanted to block and installed set screws with a generous helping of red loctite.
The two passages at the base of the cylinder get blocked in the upper crankcase.
Then the two oil passages in the head that lead from the head bolt tunnel to the cam cover well get blocked. This ensures oil does not go down into the old oil passage and sit there and cook.