Kicking in style

!ChicoD found it. I'm gonna kick it! Might polish it, although it might not work well in the rain if I polish it....

Where is Spring?

It just will not warm up here in the frigid north. We spend all winter counting the days but I don't even know what to countdown to anymore? May? More snow in the forecast this week.

The first barge pushed its way north today through Lake City, which I am told is 3 weeks later than normal and 7 weeks behind last winter.

I have taken the Yamaha out a few times now and I remember why I missed my last SR500...this thing pulls hard. Working out a couple bugs but so far nothing major.

Boogie!

 

This is a cool show. This will be the 3rd year for it, & it seems to grow a little each year.

Check it OUT!

SPARK PLUG READING

Just an FYI... Very informative.

http://youtu.be/fiMM2S0aADM

Got my license plate....

.....bent for free last night. Thanks assholes for also cracking my front bumper. Today I did some fixing... Pulled a self tapping screw outta my tire and plugged it. Then I unfucked my license plate. Then I crossed something off the long time list.... Can you picture what I had to cobble jockey without a welder when I was 19 and needed seats in my car... I've come a long way, but something's just don't take precedence in the thought department until you realize how easy it is to tackle. That feeling of "shit is easy" = experience.

Mostly Harleys

But if you really want to make power. Honda

Knocked this head out today for a buddy of mine.

This is going on a turbo engine & these really make power.

Like 7+hp per cubic inch type power.

120ci x 7 = 840hp?

 

 

 

There is still some work to do. Cut the seats & surface the head.

So far, So good!

Grounds Thawin', Let's Get Shovelin'

We've been building an 87inch stroker Shovelhead for my dad. 

Noots(Sr & Jr) been working on the LowerEnd(Check it out Here). 

 

 I've been chipping away at the heads.

The seats had been cut multiple times, leaving them sunk.  I figured since I was going to be fixing everything, I might as well fix the intake ports being too large right above the valve seat. 

 

 

Welded both heads up, remachined the counterbores and drove the new seats in.

Now I have a nice multi-angle valvejob, correct installed height/valve protrusion, valve to valve clearance and most importantly, a port the flows properly.

Otherwise you end up grinding the valve seat way too big to blend it into the port or leaving a huge step in the port(both hurting airflow).

 

We are going to run a S&S .514" camshaft in this engine.

I'll get you some more fancy pics as we get further along!