Recent content by MBellRacing

Okay, 2 steps forward, one big step backward. The good news: I rode the bike for the first time in 5 years today, albeit slowly in a parking lot while it coughed and choked its way around for 5 minutes. The bad news: I can't start it reliably. 2 means of doing it, neither work!!! The electric...

Haven't had too much time to work on the bike lately, but I got over to the shop to work the lathe and picked up a part that a friend laser cut for me. The turned part I was working on was a brass fitting adapter to relocate the fuel petcock to behind the carbs. It sits a bit lower than I'd...

Yeah, Bob Guynes was trying to push me that way. I am a huge fan of CV's and generally anything with enough tunability to weed out any lean spots. The old stock carbs were terrible and constantly needed adjustment to be right. In the northern Peninsula here in the Bay Area, I was struggling with...

Thanks, guys. Yeah, it definitely burps and farts a bit until it is warm. Like I said in the video, I think it actually may be TOO rich with the autochokes open. Not much I can do about that except maybe tighten them down more. I've heard of seizing of the needles with these carbs, so I'm not...

Wow! Phenomenal looking bike! Pretty much everything you've done is perfect. Love it. Can't wait to see a video of it running with that big meg.

Update video. Fixed the brake light, tested the autochoke, dialed in some wiring stuff. In the video, that rise to 3000rpm was the bike, not me. I didn't touch the throttle until later, and it was obvious. I believe that the chokes actually made it TOO rich which artificually dropped the revs...

A while back I decided to attempt something really stupid and do an EFI conversion on a 1962 CB77 Superhawk. I failed miserably. After a couple years of trying to get the antiquated ECU and poor quality components to work, I finally gave up, and the bike sat in the corner of a shop with barely...

Sorry I never responded to this! To be honest, I'm not sure. I'm fairly confident it will be the same pot, but I will check with the wizard (my electrical engineer father) and get back to you on it. Also, if anyone is interested, there are a number of companies now selling H1, H2, H4, etc LED...

1. Not sure. To be honest, I've been quite busy and haven't had much time to get the fuel injection system working enough to ride it. I'll try to get back at it soon. 2. I did it with a hole saw, which wasn't all that great, so I finished up the hole with a dremmel. The shell was metal.

The bars are welded to the tapered bosses I had machined. The bosses have a shoulder that grabs the top of the fork tapers and set screws keep them from rotating.

I have thought about it. I was thinking about using some contacts I now have and making ready-made LED headlights in standard motorcycle sizes-- 6", 6.5", 7", etc. Not sure on the price, but it wouldn't make sense to make it too expensive. Non-DOT headlights seem to be around $50. Maybe around...

Good news! Ugly Option (that's her name, by the way... long story) officially can idle all on it's own! I spent the last 2-3 days wiring up everything, debugging it all, and then finally today, I started it. It didn't fire right away. I had to open up the idle air screws a bit and add about 30%...

Glad to see a few people trying out the setup! I have just ordered another full set of everything, except this time I'll try it with the 1000mA driver. I have a feeling that the life of the emitters will be drastically decreased, but I want to see how it does. I figure it's not all that much...

First couple days back home and a couple good days of work on the bike. Firstly, I got around to making the exhaust system. Took my megaphone hot rod header mufflers and welded a straight tube to the front of each of them, ensuring best I could that they were coaxial. I then cut a slit down the...

Real quick update. Spent the day buying bolts, unfortunately, the only ones I found were for my center stand. It seems the vibration from riding knocked one nut completely off, leaving a crooked bolt to hold on one side. Even the other nut had loosened. I test fit my freshly painted VR sensor...