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Post by aeroxbud on Sept 12, 2019 14:21:54 GMT -5
They do look very bright. Not always a good thing though, if you dazzle traffic coming the other way.
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Post by chehystpewpur on Sept 12, 2019 18:44:10 GMT -5
nah they have no dazzle to them other than being very pretty. its why i went with the real projector rather than the old fleabay ones that had a 360 degree output.
these ones are for lhd vehicles so they have a small tick going up and to the right at a 45* angle for reading road signs. all dot approved and no modification to the projector housing its self. they only look like they are pointed high in most pictures due to being on the side stand with oversized tires so the right side is up pretty high while the left is low. when standing up they are very flat with the left light being pointed down slightly more than the right like headlights are supposed to be. the whole housing is pointed so the highest light is still pointing slightly down and the highest point is about 3-4 feet at a distance. i made the whole housing adjustable so i could adjust and dial the lights in but havent needed to readjust since the initial aiming. but the option is there if it ever becomes an issue. the housing is also in there pretty solidly so the lights dont bounce all over the place like alot of car headlights do i was worried from the weight of the projectors but they are pretty balanced in the headlight housing but slightly front heavy so if they bounce they bounce down. it was my first true projector retrofit so i wanted to do it right and most likely went overboard in some areas but the end result was more than worth it so i cant say it was a waste of time.
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Post by chehystpewpur on Sept 13, 2019 20:31:59 GMT -5
well i took that thing all over the place again today and it started gargling again. looks like i deff need to source some pilot jets again. granted i took it out when it was on off raining and my air filter got soaked but thats good it solidified that i do still have a pilot jetting issue so i can stop worrying. even in the rain this thing pulled like a freight train so the main is very close at the 100 that i stuck in it before the ride. as the rain went away and i ran more errands it cleared up some and pulled better. had to run down and see a friend thats out of town so i decided i already rode it enough today so why not ride some more. ran her hard all the way down and it did good. no over heating and was cruising at 55-60 for almost 10 miles straight before i started catching lights coming into the next town. it actually got a little too cool in the stop and go running but i can safely lean it out some more and will have a good color reading on the plug tomorrow to see if i want the 98 main or the 95 that i have. stopped and put some gas in it on the way home and decided why not try some 91 octane instead of the 93 ive been running and it ran a little better. so the main is deff still too big and 93 may be a touch higher than i should run in it but most stations around here have 89 or 93 sigh. dont really want to run 89 as this kit calls for higher.
on my last stoplight before i got to my friends i had to wait to turn and gave it some beans around the corner but hit a small bump right when the pipe hit and the front end came off the ground and hovered for a few seconds before i let off looks like the front end is going to be a little too light when its all dialed in. its looking like i may have a wheelie machine if i go down to 12:1 gears and i will not be swapping my stack gears back in for any reason. it will be unsafe to drive if i do that though im sure it would be a blast. i got some love from some bikers in my running along with some cars so that was fun and i almost got pulled over but everyone at the intersection was showing me some love so he just shook his head laughing and turned back around and went the other way friday the 13th is always my lucky day. then some guy on a 150 or larger came around and started messing with me and i was going to leave him alone but he was trying so hard to get me to play so i humored him once we got into the 55 zone again. lets just say he found out real quick why i didnt play before. he had a good launch but by 20 mph i was gone. i let him catch up while he still had it pinned and i proceeded to lay more waste to him his stopped going around 60-65 and i had alot left. all in all its shaping up well and will have earned this paint job i want to give it this winter while its parked. i just wish i could get this cvt to act right. something is off on this real clutch and i need to get to the bottom of it. maybe i just need a diff clutch this ones always been a bit goofy to me.
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Post by matlock on Sept 14, 2019 14:41:17 GMT -5
It's been a long time (long time), we shouldn't of left you (left you), Without a dope beat to step to (step to, step to, step to, step to). It's been a long time (long time), we shouldn't of left you (left you), Without a dope beat to step to (step to, step to, step to, step to
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Post by chehystpewpur on Sept 14, 2019 22:27:15 GMT -5
went and got my hands on some air compressor action today and decided to pull my flywheel/rotor off as i remember that i had moved my stator as much as i could to retard timing for one of my more torquey lower rpm cylinders and couldnt remember if i ever moved it back when i swapped to this one and the watercooling. thankfully i pulled that thing off because it turns out one of the things that was rattling was the this steel ring that covers the magnets in there ive never seen one come off before but ive also never seen one with close to 35000 miles on it either. luckily none of the magnets had come lose but that flywheel is going in the garbage at this point. i tossed it back on briefly and ran back home to grab my other one after pinging it a few times to keep it in place. its a pretty common thing to do on repairs for bearing surfaces whenever there was evidence of a beasing spinning or failing in the past but its not far enough out of spec to warrant replacing what the bearing rides on. axle shafts pinions spindles stuff like that. lo and behold that rattle went away and it ran alot better now that some parasitic drag was gone. drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ufkmqVJWUwWZh9uALBqXjSHUB4t8mzEF?usp=sharingno real damage was done to anything and thankfully none of the magnets came loose and i found out what a 12k rpm castration felt like. dont get me wrong i dont need and more kids but id like to not have them on my terms. sometimes u just gotta trust your gut. another positive to swapping rotor/flywheels was it had another 2* of timing advance stamped on the inside and if you look in the pics i lined them up on the woodruff key as best i could and its a pretty visible diff. took her out for a quick spin before i swapped out some cvt goodies and its deff woke the ole girl up some and helped with some of the sputter. it also gave me a little better charging on my electrical and now i dont lose a little voltage at high rpms on wot charge voltage actually goes up slightly. looks like the song matlock was singing to me the post up made her happy or something so thanks for that. that being said i swapped from a blue gy6 spring to a yellow one to bring the rpms up a little on clutch transition and popped my 7 gram sliders in instead of the 6 gram rollers that were in it as the 6 gram rollers were in worse condition than i will run. the brass insert for the weight was loose inside of the low friction coating so im not gonna risk it scraping up my malossi overrange it costs alot more than some stupid rollers do. at any rate the first take off when cvt was cold and so was the motor it woke up and layed waste to the driveway any time i hit the throttle so ik its almost where i want it. took it down the road for a few miles to see what it did once the cvt warmed up and got sticky and it deff gets off the line much better and the cvt does its high to low gear switch around 50-55 mph perfect. acceleration rpms are about dead on at 11k rpms and around 65ish hits its final gear and drops slightly and pulls from 10.5k on up quite well. its much happier pulling up to 75mph on the speedo so now it can easily hit 70-72 on gps without trying. decided to go back and check over a few other things. plug color was pretty good. i think mid throttle may be a lair leaner than im used to but nothing to worry about plug color looks pretty decent to me but if someone would chime in im not gonna complain. the flash makes it look a lil more white than it is so i got more angles to get a better look at it. drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Kc-7_HhKPfvtPuOIKNmC0_ZjBrSJwPe4?usp=sharing checked squish and it looks as though after things settled and had many heat cycles it went from the .7-.8 it was at before to 1mm scratched my head a few times and tightened the nuts down a little and checked squish again and it was back to .7mm but i didnt like the way one of the nuts felt so i pulled it off to check the threads and it looks like the chinese "steel" was to blame for the squish getting out of whack the threads on the nut were pretty rough but they were never great to begin with. i always knew sooner or later id be ordering new studs and nuts and it looks like today is the day. i put it back on and got it snug but didnt want to kill it since i knew it wasnt going to stay on for long long and i wasnt going to really use it after i got it home and parked it. on the way home it gave it a quick blast because it was running alot better and boy did she wake up. i was going to just drive it nice but it really wanted to go so i said why not the worst that can happen is it comes loose and costs me a cylinder so i get a new one and thats that. i hit it once and it pulls hard up to 80 on the speedo so about 75mph real world and i let off. i dont need to go that fast on a scoot. drive it normal on the rest of the way home and have trouble keeping it at the speed limit. it keeps trying to pick up speed and doesnt want to stay below 60. get home check the nuts again check the plug and check squish everything is pretty much the same so i say screw it im gonna run it once more and grab something ive been craving for days to eat ive earned it. i get about 1-2 miles down the road and decide to mess with the carb for a sec and give it a little more fuel at partial throttle just incase seeing as how im using almost no throttle to hold speed on 55mph roads. i catch a whiff of coolant when i pull into a parking lot to play with the mixture screw now that its warming up and low and behold i see a little coolant by that nut. head back towards home cause i dont need to break it or spring a bigger leak and i get home after driving is very conservatively and the nut is gone and it gets parked for the nite. whatever ill order some studs and nuts for it if the spares i have laying around wont fit. all in all a pretty good day for me. got a million things done picked up a side job on a snowmobile for my stepdad and found the issue more than likely almost instantly and got a free small air compressor that will suit my needs at home for the scoot and checking tires on my vehicles. done with the long winded post for now but i will be trying to get on the scoot speed list here soon so im looking forward to that. i tried in the past but for some reason it got denied/deleted when it was new so ive held off till i could make the 70mph bracket and it looks like ill beat that no problem when i get back up and running.
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Post by chehystpewpur on Sept 16, 2019 12:15:52 GMT -5
another "quick" update one of my friends was supposed to come up for a family gathering/see me/have me look at a leak on his car/ride scooty puff so i stayed up till 6 am doing some dirty work. stole a set of studs off one of my spare motors. pulled the cylinder off and inspected for any damage from the ordeal and also from the running its had before and the cylinder still looks brand new so i decided well i have nothing to loose as i was expecting damage. cleaned up some of the castings in the ports and took a lip off the exhaust port that shouldnt have been there nothing to change the timings just smooth it out a little and help with flow though i dont think thats a big problem with this cylinder but stage6 does say there are gains to be had just cleaning the castings and more gains to be had with some porting and changing timing. seen my squish band was a little beat up from the debacle so i grabbed another that i had and put a quick very thin smear of sillycone on the orings and base gasket for cheap insurance. as i dont plan on taking this cylinder off again anytime soon and when i do it will be for a new motor or to slip a stage6 r/t cylinder on it possibly but will most likely only change the exhaust whenever i do another "big" performance mod on this motor. i need another set of reeds/ larger reed block which i may go and try and source some today as im getting bored on my day off. i have a larger rood block just needs reeds and i havent wanted to order online because if i do im gonna get an intake with it as its technically cheaper? 20-30 bux for reeds or 30-35 for intake with reeds reed block and rubber boots ugh. first world problems i guess. went to a nearby hardware store that claimed they had the nuts i need anybody that needs to know they are 7mm x 1.00 thread pitch nuts. put them on and got squish down to .7mm but i think the sillycone took up a little slack and i dont want to tighten the nuts down anymore as they are tiny and i know its not gonna give me any more without risking breaking something. threw on a new exhaust gasket as the one i had was used but one of the good ones with a metal ring in it. i had another laying around so i smeared a light layer of the good stuff on there and filled her back up with coolant. water pump is making a slight tick sound as it spins now so i think from his son running around and kicking it it may have got a piece of dirt or a small rock in it or something. whatever. he kept freaking out cause his son was running around parts and messing with the scoot. i kept telling him to chill hes not gonna hurt anything and if he does ill just get something better. its 200 bux or less for anything thats on it and you make 80k a year if you feel that bad split the cost with me but im not worried. its a 30,000+ mile TOY everything on it i have gotten my moneys worth and then some. i just needed to run it for a bit yesterday so my friend could ride it. he hasnt seen it in 1.5 years and and has been psyched as ive updated him seeing as how he was scared of it the last time he rode it. fired it up after system was primed and all coolant fittings were checked for leaks and nuts and bolts checked. and little man jumped and ran and said OH SHIT! BITCH LOUD! we all fell down laughing and tears were on our cheeks. cant even be mad at the little guy for cussing he wasnt lying. he comes back over and i give it a quick throttle snap and he cusses again and we fell out a few more times as i "heated it up" yeah some people would say i tortured the lil guy but it was worth it and he fell in love with the bike. he had the evil eyes every time he came back with the biggest creepy grin ive ever seen. finally he came closer and told me my turn and i looked at his dad whose got a terrified look because he sees my smile. i tell him go for it turd bucket just do it fast or you gonna go for a ride and i show him how. i mash the brakes and he whisky throttles it like a pro. then runs inside screaming yelling some words none of us knew he knew. thank the stars i held the brakes cause if not hed be in a diff state by now. ive never seen my friend get so pale so fast and ive seen him at his worst and on his literal death bed before. i run it down my road real quick to finish the heat cycle and check head nuts everythings good so i go out and do some tuning. will not run on 89 pump gas it doesnt like at all. great put some premium in it and she woke up and got a nasty attitude. played around with the carb some more and got the bottom end to get a little better but it was still a little off. opened the power valve and low and behold the bottom end was better? it was pressurizing the float bowl so that helped alleviate that. got some more running done and checked some things and checked the fuel line to make sure it had enough fuel in it. touched it and started bubbling and squirted some fuel out. hmm that was odd but then i realized the fuel line was pretty warm. nothing major but something wasnt right. opened the tank no pressure. stuck my finger in the fuel it was cold. the heat from the radiators was heating up the fuel once it hit the line and pressurizing it and forcing it into the carb. anybody seen that before? ill have to shield it somehow to keep some heat off it and that little issue should be a thing of the past. i moved it slightly and it got much better and now it doesnt do anything really weird the hotter things get. check the plug and could use a touch more fuel so ill stick a bigger jet in today and be done with it for now if i get those reeds. anyone have any ideas for shielding the fuel line? i thought about some wire loom or something and run it past the carb to an air passage somewhere so fresh air is always blowing through it it wouldnt weigh anything and wouldnt cause issues like something solid when the bike accelerates due to heavy flexing or when hitting bumps. about the same amount of flexing.
friend took it out and was pretty scared to hit it when he left but finally decided to give it some beans on the way back and it does sound pretty sweet on the road i see why people try to snap their necks now. it doesnt help that it cams at any cruising speed below 50-55 and he asked me why the headlights were better than the ones on his audi which also has projectors. shrugged and i told him i didnt make them? idk but he wants one now so maybe ill get to build one ofr him with alot larger of a budget than i could muster at the time. soon ill have a better budget than his hopefully and we can have some fun with them.
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Post by chehystpewpur on Sept 20, 2019 12:18:42 GMT -5
ok so i have some update action for anyone whose actually reading this and if nobody is whatever. its atleast helping me. got sick of my reed problem and decided to make my own as i was down to my very last set of new reeds and didnt want to use the stock reed block. at the rpms im trying to run its got to be restrictive. maybe the reason why reeds keep chipping or breaking on me though they were doing the same thing with my big reed block too but not as fast as the small ones were. i went to the local powersport store and tried to match some reeds they had in stock and found a set of kawasaki reeds that were a little wider and about 1/4 inch longer than the ones for my large reed block. drive.google.com/drive/folders/1CUUGLv3usHs4SdMVLcIA9W5QOGX-9t8E?usp=sharingtrimmed them down with some titanium blade scissors i have as i was unsure what to use but i tested on a corner and it cut like butter and was clean cut so the surgitation had begun. taped to a board to get them to stay in place and flat so nothing happened when i drilled the mounting holes and all went well. got the ends flush once i could mount and unmount a few times stuck it all back together after getting some picks of my cute little crankshaft. idk why but i like looking at that thing. so shiny and pretty. took it for a quick run but it didnt seem to have good top end but the reeds usually take a few days to wiggle around and soften up and these boys are STIFF. like i didnt know if my little motor could open them stiff. pulled them back out to inspect for damage all looked well except one petal on each side wasnt sitting flat anymore so they had settled. flipped them over and got a nice tight seal at rest. perfect. upped the jet a few times since then as she deff wants more fuel at wot and has settled my mind alot. started to rip from idle now and i dont have that bog/chugging/gargling that i was experiencing before so its clear those little baby reeds didnt have enough flow to fill my crankcase. the motor also sounds alot more poppy and crisp at idle instead if babababa it has that dirtbike popopopop sound and revs just like one. i deff like these reeds so far. starting is better too. tried upping my pilot jet but it seems to have gotten my idle mixture screw closer to the 1 1/2 turns everyone likes but unless the motor is hottt it will sputter a little. gonna drop the needle back down to the lowest setting here in a few and see if that helps im using a 38 pilot jet now vs the 35 that was the leanest i could get and i feel better with mid throttle positions now. main jet is still lean at 108 so i think ill try a 110 or maybe 112 based on what my plug looks like and now that i dont have to remove the whole carb for jetting anymore it will be alot quicker and simpler process whoo. 2 mins to rejet sounds like my kind of tuning why i didnt move stuff before dont ask me but it is what it is. if i can get this bad boy dialed in and revving even crisper i may go back to my old cvt setup with the blue spring and lighter rollers or maybe even a stock spring since the motor will rev finally instead of having to force it up to the rpms with a stiff contra. i lost a couple mph when using the 7 gram sliders most likely due to increasing the weight on the crank by atleast a half a pound and also having to work harder to open the rear pulley. if i could use a stock spring and get the cvt to adjust fast it would get to pull the gears sooner i guess but mainly i could drop over a pound off the cvt side of the crank if not a little more. we will see after i get this carb dialed the rest of the way in.
oh and i almost forgot to mention i moved the fuel line around and dont have pressure in the line anymore as i routed it on the outside of the frame on the inside of my side fairing on the left side. its far away from the heat of the rads and now has cool air passing over it to keep it cool thanks to the speed holes in the side. its like keeway wanted me to do water cooling and run my fuel line over there.
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