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The headers may need some additional airflow unless they're getting enough already. They're in pretty clean air on the 'bike but often don't get any in a car.

Shorai batt's are great.

Ideally you should circulate both the engine cooling liquid and lube oil in a preheat application. If you heat one and not the other, the one not heated will cool the heated liquid when the engine...

Harbor Freight

Ceramic washers separating conductors.
Air blow - something no one wants to do but works well.

Bent forks, engine scratches, seat & body damage and presto, an engine for a car!

Did some research at several chain sites.

Chain doesn't stretch, though it's a fitting physical description of the outcome. The bushings wear, creating lengthening.

Sealed chain has nearly...

Chain drag increases (significantly and life is reduced) by the number of degrees angle a chain bends around its smallest radius during the circuit of its path. Small sprockets create higher chain...

This may sound strange, but here goes:
If the drive chain is too loose, it can create issues. A loose chain causes the gearbox to be in a sort of "limbo" state longer than a tight chain. I have...

Sprockets can create optical illusions. Until they have significant wear they can look both good and bad, for some reason. Measurements are the best means of determining wear.
Remember, the...

Another way to view the splits between the lower ratios and higher ones is to divide the split percentages. Therefore with 5% splits in lower gears and 3% splits in the upper gears, the splits are...

Hi Stan.

Off to Le Mans for the next week.

Let's talk about the oven after next Wednesday.

Greg

Hi Stan.
Meant the metal parts coming from Portland could be rusty!
(916) 296-7755

No more rust!
You going to build your own oven?
Greg

Well done, Stan!

Engineer of wrench?

Favorite chassis definition = "main bracket that holds all minor brackets together".

ALL sensors should be treated with kid gloves, especially temperature sensors. They live in high vibration/temperature/air-polluted environments. Temperature sensor tubes/flanges/plates/adapters...

I have five TC's on my EVO4. Yes you can set the inputs for TC's.

I've built and raced a number of cable operated shifting systems and learned the following:

1) The mounting of the cable housing at both ends must be good, solid designs.
2) Friction and/or...

As a person who briefly raced in F1000, the F600 is a very appealing sounding race car, at far less cost.
I wish this group great success if/when the merger goes through.
May even succumb to the...

High compression, more advance and larger jets.
New cell with material that can withstand E85.
More ponies!

I built a device that allows me to slide the starter out of harms way after the engine has started. I can slide the starter back in if needed from the cockpit. Use push-pull cables and good design...

I put a 'blade' peddle in my F1000 for a clutch. This very narrow peddle operates a cable to the clutch actuator when needed and the rest of the time it's a left foot rest. I have to pull my leg...

If you pay close attention to cable bend radius and length and build robust cable clamping mechanisms with low friction, a cable is just as good as solid. If you build a solid system and have any...

Very cool!

The car is a big shifter kart. No clutch required after launch until you're nearly at full stop. I make more mistakes using the clutch and Hewland states that dog type gearboxes are best used...

Is a National License required?

Interesting graph. It appears that the Honda would be a very attractive alternative to the Suzuki in '09. It would be interesting to see how the older GSXR's and the new BMW compared as well.

Setrab is worth the extra price.
Get the largest one you can practically fit and shoot for 200 - 240 F oil temp's.
Greg

I've converted an '83 Reynard FF converted to DSR to an FB. I built the body from pieces found and produced by myself along with wings purchased from donor FC's.
Please call me if you want to...

Thank you both for your replies.
It turns out that Hawk does not build an R1 starter saver but he they may expand their offering to include other moto engine applications in the future.
In the...

Hi, Wayne.
Unfortunately, the saver at this site is for Suzuki's only. It turns out that the product is built by a company named Hawk in NY state. So far, I'm unable to find a Hawk company in NY...

Gents;
Do any of you recall who builds 'Starter Savers'? I searched this and the SportsRacer.net sites for an thread that had information one that I thought I saw a few months ago, to no avail.
I...

On my '03 R1 with a very full wet sump (full above the sight glass), I removed the clutch cover and the chamber was dry. Apparently oil is controlled in the clutch chamber to reduce pumping losses...

Thanks, guys.
Some great information here and good reminders of things I knew and had forgotten, especially that fact that the base diameter is the most important detail to correct sprocket...

Thanks, Gary.
Your comments regarding Sprocket Specialists was telling. That's where my sprockets came from. I went to their facility and ordered them directly. The sprockets have large metric...

Gents;
I'm using split, anodized aluminum sprockets and they are not lasting beyond about four hours. The anodizing wears off at about three hours and the sprocket lasts about one hour beyond that...

I saw that starter saving widget a while back as well. Maybe I'll make one for my R1.

Hi, Russ.
I've removed the foot pad from the clutch pedal and adjusted it to stand further back towards me. I then installed a sheet of aluminium to rest my foot against on the side of the clutch...

Thank you for your quick response, Hasty.
As for both feet in, I'm aware of this. However, I've built my car using the clutch pedal as a side foot rest for my left braking foot. This reduces the...

Thanks, guys.

I had heard this with GSX-R1000's, but didn't know it was also an issue with R1's. Fortunately, I have a spare starter motor. Is it usually the case that the rest of the starter...

Have any of you gents spun an '03, R1 motor backwards, of course, accidentally? I was hit and spun at Thunderhill last weekend and before I could get to the clutch the motor died and spun backwards....

It turns out that when the R1 clutch is overextended the outer plate rotates a couple of degrees and locks in the released position. I repaired this and adjusted my pedal stop and all is well.
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Gents: I've now read two reports on the new GSX-R1000 and am not ready to state that it IS the motor to have. The motor is ~1 pound lighter and 10mm shorter in length. The increase in bore and...

Thank you again for your informative answers.
A new gasket is cheap insurance!

You guys are terrific help!
I'll remove the clutch cover and fix this thing soon. Must race the Thunderhill Double Regional on Memorial Day Weekend.
And yes, I'm going to cut a lightly stressed...

I believe that I have overtraveled the clutch in my R1. It is stuck in the disengaged position and the clutch actuation arm freely moves with the return spring providing the only resistance.
Have...

I have all three of those bleed hoses connected in series with one connection above the water line in my expansion tank. No problems at all.

I race with an '03 R1 with the original EFI. It is way down on power but is fine for now while I develop the car and whip the driver into shape. I'm hoping the economy turns around by the end of...