More runner shenanigans
shenanigans is in the spell checkers!?
Went for a short spin to kinsale yesterday, perfect coz it’s raining today 🙂
Piston is well fooked, even the gudgeon pin was damaged.
Barrel however has survived! if it don’t survive being ported and decked to within .02mm of it life, i’ll swap the whole top end for a malossi 172 then but for now it means i have more money in the budget for other toys 🙂
Like a 24mm PWK flatside carb (37% bigger then the original 20.5mm dellorto) along with a stage6 reed valve and stage6 manifold too. When they get here i’ll go hunting for a kart airbox to suit, Foam filters and rain are not a good mix.
I promise myself a PM5* pipe if i get a proper job!
Runner 180, strip down
Well first thing that didn’t help the engine survive was a seeming lack of water anywhere in the cooling system. Most of it seems to have escaped into the exhaust.
BEGIN!
That can’t have helped.
That can’t have helped.
THAT CAN NOT HAVE HELPED AT ALL NOT ONE BIT!!!!
Skull cap off and it looks like the bodged o-ring survived fine. However the compression o-ring didn’t, letting all the water out into the exhaust and ruining the ability of the two-stroke oil to lubricate.
Plated barrel now fecked, might be able to hone off the melted aluminium, will definitely do some porting. Don’t want to have to do this again so if the barrel doesn’t come up 100% it goes on the spare pile.
(does my hand look fat in that pic?)
New piston for sure, fair bit of water in the crank too but it seems to have escaped proper damage.
I have a theory about the missing exhaust bolt and the oil pump falling off, it’s usually the case when things start to vibrate off that the freq is too high (or not high enough if your pedantic) and the best way to lower the freq is by attaching a weight. So to kill two birds with one stone i’m gonna remove that gigantic rubber block and just mount the engine properly to the frame, that ought to sort the flipping handling and the bolts falling out, at least in the engine anyway, rest of the bike may suffer…
A plan is needed, have a three point one:
1: it will have an autolube system.
2:it will have a rain proof airbox/filter.
3:it will have a nice crisp exhaust note.
4: it’ll be faster then steve’s!
A day at the drags
steve was bringing his runner so that meant i had to fix mine, shortened up a fuel line and it was leak free and good to go
Steve just used zip ties.
then to alex’s place (he doesn’t live in a cage).
then it all went wrong, it was steves fault you see, we were flatout to cobh flatout back from cobh and some more flatout ness just for the heck of it pas douglas.
I missed that alright, seems that dodgey O-ring in the skull cap let go again (it was quite a hot day, really) i missed the temperature shooting up and then it heat seized. 🙁
so a quick  spin on the back of ronans bandit and it was off with the cbr again, the fall back bike.
Made it too the drag race any way and got a few pics, this pink busa was up at our place a while back didn’t know it was gonna be racing!
nice set of puppys there girl!
this bike broke the 200mph barrier in the uk and ireland back in 70’s (i think) ted and mum got up at the crack of dawn to see it do it .
quite a machine.
must dash, gotta sort a shopping list for a faster runner 🙂
Feck all done to the Jago again
Well i got 8.2l/100km outa the runner, thats probably as good as it gets for now,fun as it is probably will have to go back to the cbr.
Got something done to the jago. The paint wasn’t so thick that the crossmember wouldn’t fit. however the paint didn’t like the rain or the ice .
Also someone nicked one of the bolts i got to put the crossmember in. it was probably me and i’ve forgotten. Got tca’s in with much lube and two big hammers. Fitted the arb then ran out of light for photos.
arb clamps need plenty of  paint, decided to call it a night then, next day i’ll find a few more parts the need painting and do a batch.
thinking of getting a gsxr750l and turning it into a gsxr750rk(l) rep
This is a great inspiration, also those three pics are now my desktop backround forever!
http://iconmotosports.blogspot.com/2010/12/dance-commander.html
Christmas break work.
This scene last year was a mini glacier.
Cleaned up the 32mm carbs, fitted needles which richend the top end and left in the 210 jets.
Bastard throttle cable is near impossible, but i got it
Found a better fuel filter and slotted that in too.
Knew this things are restricting the engine and since i found out where our stash of jets were hidden, they got the chop.
Now all i need is some free time, fuel and dry roads to take it for a test spin. And to figure out where the throttle cable is meant to be routed.
The runner needs some love, so i found it a mirror

And since i got 11.42litres/100km(25mpg!! i may have stolen some fuel at some point i forget) decided to change the clutch springs, the green polini ones are great for a quick get away but i have to use plenty of throttle to keep the bike doing 50k, hence the suspicion that their causeing the crap fuel economy. Also they fit like shit which is i hope the reason for the weird shoe wear pattern.
I was going fit the old ones but I’ve lost the feckers, so i fitted the malossi race ones, which were a much more reasonable poundage and better shaped. Even managed to get em in single handed this time.
Test ride revealed a tiny amount of bog off the line and only once at that, if it still drinks the fuel it must be the rollers, which will make me sad since the buzz from the acceleration is awesome.
Back to FAS tomorrow, but at least the summers on it’s way.
In before the snow!
Just got the runner out of storage literally hours before the snow hit hard. If i have to travel the runner will be much easier to pick up after a slide 🙂
runner 180
Had to fix the front tyre of the runner, wheel is too corroded inside to make a good seal. lots of grease and fettling easy work.
while i was there i actually cleaned the wheel and noticed the legs were also furring up, fecking italians.
some left over paint?
Still a little bit wet in the centre there, matt black side panels will go well with other grey panels. eventually paint the wheels orange?
Moar two-strokes
Got a few thing done over the last couple of day, even cleaned a bike!
Massive tuk tuk bars on an nrg.
Gasp nrg bars on a tuk tuk!
Old bars didn’t want to let go of the cable with out a fight, realised the cable was mangled by this point but had to show it who’s boss!
Vintage dt400 supplied brake lever.
May weld the bars on with a little more pull back, also need to notch the stem a bit deeper, couldn’t get the tuk tuk to the garage (camper van in the way) and the rain scared me off taking the electic grinder to the tuk tuk.
Worried about the cbr’s engine oil’s life if I do to many short trips to FAS, so decieded to take out the runner 180, no engine oil to mayonnaise in this engine.
Cleaned it in the hope it might help with starting. It worked!
Went to the new kinsale hillclimb on the runner, chased bigger bikes the whole way there 🙂
tt-01 semi-rally
Bits arrived this week for my tt-01, first up was the wheels, disappointed that they need to have the tyres glued on but no biggy, gotta find the time to paint em soon. Then i did the shocks they are ta-05 shocks and came with fine 3mm threaded stuff that didn’t really suit the plastic tt-01 still I battled on and found some long self threading screws with out shanks for the bottom of the shocks and then used 3mm bar at the top set deep into the plastic to mount the upper ball joint. Haven’t tested it yet but it should be good only weak point is the upper mount and if they fail it’s just some 3mm bar and eight 3mm nuts to create a really strong solution.
Also got a turnbuckle tie-rod set for the steering tamiya stuff really nice, some day now I’ll mod the chassis for a little bit more articulation get the handling more scale, shocks aren’t long enough for an out right rally car so I’ll just stick to tarmac rallying.
Bloody gilera can’t even bloody sit there bloody quietly with out some bloody thing breaking. fecking!!!
Right now I’m servicing this thing, oil in the frame had me stumped for a minute when only 500ml’s of oil came out of the engine 🙂
The honda 50 challenge battle scars, ted still made it around the ring of kerry despite the petrol tank (which doubles as a seat) cracking and letting out quite a lot of petrol and ruining the paintwork.
Also I’ve been playing with the busa’s suspension found out the standard setting and it’s still wasn’t right… then I got a manual from carlslater.com, I had the compression and rebound adjusters the wrong way around, DOH!
Gilera runner rollers
Well, the test spin with just the clutch springs went only mediocre, only difference I could tell was the clutch closing earlier, which made slow speed corners a bit of a pain. Logically if it close’s earlier it should open earlier, but there is no acceleration? DOH! as it revs higher the gearing goes up, it needs lighter rollers! which i handily had to hand. When i went looking for them i also found some high quality malossi clutch springs i had totally forgotten were there, they look like the right diameter for my clutch as well so yep another rebuild 🙂
So, with three 8.7g roller and three standard rollers (least i think there standard) and green clutch springs, it fucking flys, no discernible loss in top speed and loads of get off the line and go. This is how a two stroke should go!
Can’t wait for the xtdr to be going, gotta pull myself up and get started on it, think a fully functioning riot runner 180 could help with that 😀
