Recent content by Powderfinger

+1 on the tumbler, a little simple green and water and it cleans while you are doing something else. Take them out and dry them and then fog with some WD40. And it works great on old bike parts.

GT550 for sale south of Pittsburgh, looks like a good winter project. http://pittsburgh.craigslist.org/mcy/5846911190.html

Sounds like you have your plug wires swapped around, 1 and 4 should be on one coil and 2 and 3 on the other.

I would consider selling this, it is an RD250 with XS650 forks, swingarm and wheels. I bought it just like this a couple months ago. No title, located about an hour SE of Pittsburgh. I will probably keep the RD motor and the bars but it came with four R5 motors so you could have a couple of them.

You can use 80 on flat, easy to sand areas and it will save time but in harder to sand areas like pockets around bolt heads and such it is easy to make scratches that are hard to get out. Forget Home Depot for sand paper, go to an auto parts store or body supply shop and get 3m paper made for...

Thanks KSwiss, Those motors were done with mainly wet sanding by hand. Start with about 150 or 220 grit and sand through all oxidation and defects then use 320, 400, 600, etc. until you get it to the shine you want then buff depending on desired finish. The first step with the coarse paper is...

I would look for a late 70's spoked front wheel from a GS750, It would be a 19 I guess, you could lace the hub to an 18 if you wanted. Then shorten the forks. Or just get a whole front end from the 70's GS750. That should bolt right on and give you dual brakes.

How many of those choppers with aftermarket V twins take or pass an emission test? We don't have the tests here anyway. Stuff like this is usually sold as closed course. What the buyer does with it is up to them and their local and state laws. I don't see how it's different than building a...

Yeah, there are any number of four stroke engines out of modern bikes that perform great and people build bikes with them. As far as multi cylinder two strokes though, it's not something the big manufacturers are going to do again. There are certainly old motors out there if you want one to...

You can go about as wild as you want with Banshee stuff. Even start with billet cases. There are lots of stock cores around for those though. I was thinking more like RZ, TZ, Kaw triples, Honda 250R, If someone made turnkey RZ500 motors guys would find things to mount them to.

Why do you want a 16" front wheel?

There are some iconic two stroke motors that I think people would buy quality reproductions of to put into a frame/chassis they already had or built. They would be much less involved to build and still bring $$$$.

When you take them apart to clean them write down the sizes of all your jets so you know where you are starting. Make sure your floats are set to the proper height and exactly the same. You will need to bench synch them with the idle screws, after that is done always make certain you adjust each...

They should work great once you get them jetted. I would clean them really good, put them on and see what they do then go from there.

Yeah, Mikuni's are the way to go. What size did you get?