RXS100 cafe racer,first run,1975 trabant and Irish made jago jeep.
Needed a head light, so i got a 12v light meant for a caravan.
sorted! not, little bulb flops around like crazy, well it’ do for a spin. (sorry bout the pic).
Which i duly enjoyed, Only the bit that fell off 🙂 God it was biblically loud thou and not very fast but good fun, handle bar weight worked perfect. With a 17bhp 171cc engine this could be a winner.
Oil pump cable stuck open, needs a bit of tlc.
So about this time decided to take out cbr and head to kerry to look at a classic car for me.
Cbr broke its throttle cable as soon as i got it out of the garage, a sign that buying a 34 year old two stroke car may be a bad idea?
Found another crack in the airfilter.
Gaffa tape. spare cable slaped on and i was off to kerry. got very wet.
They has this in the back of there place,Zxr 250 with a cracked swingarm, might replace it with a zrx 400 one at home, theres a slim chance it would fit.
This is the trabant,1975, leaf sprung rear lots of rust underneath the duroplast, didn’t really suit me. what bulk head? (gaffa tape is not a bulk head)
This Jago jeep was also right there think i might go for it,it’s not really a jago jeep this is the Irish version made in Limerick that has nothing to do with jago. cheap short escort? needs front struts,crossmember, new engine, new floor(plywood) wipers windscreen and wheels, still works out cheap, have to insure it as a ford escort though, can’t insure it as a willy’s jeep kit car. Thought it was a mini moke at first it was so low, but it turns out the spring cups had rusted away from the struts dropping it on it nose.
Rxs100, gear linkage, rear sets.
Wham bam reverse gearchange mam. okay yeah ugly, but quick.
While at that, I broke the power supply to the garage, so we went to buy a new one and while at the electrical store, saw some internal lamps that might do for my head light, gonna have to spend money now 🙁 tried to get a job with noel quinn, no luck with that either, job hunting is becomeing an ass pain.
Gilera Runner 180, oil pump.
When I went to adjust the throttle slack, I had to do the oil pump cable as well, and I noticed that it wasn’t fully opening with the throttle wound back. So ignoring the marks that are meant to line up, I set her up to achieve full capacity when WOT, I think this is a good idea since the engine does ridiculously well on oil consumption, I feel much better now with the occasional whiff of burnt two stroke and blue haze leaving the traffic lights.
Kyosho pureten alpha gp2
Got the urge to make a scale handling RC car after finding all this when I was moving house, got too many engines and not enough rear ends. Have all sorts of plans but first it looks like im gonna have to spend some money and get a steering rack and maybe a rear end diff.
Still broke right now even though I’m saving money with cheaper rent in my new place, so right now the exhaust for the starlet is waiting, an ep80 exhaust should do the job, but also for under €200 i could get 4-2-1 manifold made for a 5efe, might make more money back on the car if I get a proper exhaust.
Sold this triumph traveller for €20, go me! (don’t look ’em up on ebay)
This turned up, again we have no idea who what when or why, but it has a newly rebuilt head and a badly patched frame. I want it, convert it to single seater like the early 50’s and ride around pulling wheelies.
Runner is going fine, steve’s runner we got going the fine. shit just remembered have to go get him some bits off the runner 125.
DI two strokes, A brief history.
The V-Due, mention Direct Injection two stokes and some plonker will mention the V-Due.
Nice bike but the injectors only injected fuel and so it had no time to atomize properly, leading to an utterly crap engine that set back the whole DI two-stroke thing by years in the public’s eye’s.
Aprilia SR50 Di-Tech, been zooming around for years now (2000-)
Using an injector from orbital which combines air and fuel at the nozzle, this set-up actually works! but only up to 10,000rpm after that there is not enough time to inject enough fuel and air in to the cylinder.
Really impressive power from low down.
Ski-Doo 600 e-tec, Injection done right
Using a brand new injector (Voice coil injector) this thing injects at 35BAR solving the time issue with brute force so the engine can rev like a monster and behave like a pussy low down.
The future?
hasn’t even got going yet, the 600 rotax under the new injection system, is made like a boggo old two stroke with it’s carb’d limitation’s for example short stroke two-stroke have terrible short circuiting, injection solves that, allowing more revs and longer piston and ring life, Roller bearings, great for minimal lubrication, but can’t really go past 13,000rpm for long, using shell bearings, situated in the gearbox oil and a sump(?) built around the conrod to scavenge the oil, you could easyly build a 20,000rpm two-stroke. Result? longer flater torque curve, much like a four-stroke.
I can’t wait to get my hands on one of these things.
Runner 180, 13″ front wheel.
This has a rev counter and it should fit into the space on the 180’s dash, it from an air cooled bike so it has no temp gauge but im sure i can bodge it in.
Spare NRG 13″ wheel, love to know what difference it would make to the handling. Both tyres are cracked and worn anyway so before i put new tyres on (12″ front) i’d like to know.
On the leak front seems the gasket sealant did the trick, was worried for a while but that turned out to be just some left over water escapeing, dry as a bone now.
Wrestled the 125’s rear handle thing off the scrap bike, no i didn’t clean it before i put it on.
Runner 180, O Ring.
It was just an O ring in the head (around the spark plug)! thank feck, spent a while trying to find a new one in town, before giveing up and smearing it with gasket sealent. then i remembered the 125 one might have done the job.
Probably gonna have to do it again now.
Leaking runner 180.
Runner seemed fine no problems, so i gave it a bit of tlc by sticking the plastics on.
fixed up the side bit with green zip ties, matching!
straight away it sprung a leak. bloody senstive italian.
And now i have to take all the plastics off again. grr. Leak seems to be coming from the skull gasket, but it’s also over heating so it’s probably the oil/water pump belt after snapping, just like steves one. except i drove it further with no oil 😀
Got sparks with the starlet engine! no we don’t know what we wired to what or why and it probably won’t work again after it’s solderd up.
Runner 180, resurrection.
Crashed it already. Thats not the first time that rack has claimed a bike, out braked and R1 and smashed it’s headlight last year too.
Fake carbon fiber levers i bought years ago and never fitted, cheap horrible things, don’t have brass liner in the pivots like the standard gilera fare.
Only real casualty of being in ditch for 2 years, perished fuel line, thank fuck i didn’t put on all the plastic before i found this leak.
I am positively itching to ride this thing. only two glitches happened, the temp sender fell off the head and the alternator plug (just ahead of the peg in that pic) fell out.
It is so hard to describe the difference between 2 and 4 stroke, I had to take slower back roads while running this engine in (new mains years ago) and the effortless feeling of just coasting along on minimal squirts of throttle makes it feels so torque-ie , limp four stokes need constant throttle to maintain speed. Already i am thinking of how to make a faster one 😀
Recipe for disaster.
Ingredients:
big crosser engine, larger block of aluminium, snow mobile cvt transmisson.
Directions:
chop off crosser gearbox, keep primary drive gears for later. turn engine 180 degree’s and lay it exhaust port down, attach cvt trans to crank end and weld big block of aluminium to left crankcase side. drill holes for rear cvt auto clutch, mount that all up, you will notice that it’s running backwards if you stick a wheel on, so next step is to use the primary drive gears (you did save right?) to make a rear tranmission case.
actually scrap all that, if you mount the cvt onto the the primary gear layshaft (of the crosser) the speed increase will lower the torque going throught the cvt belt, makeing a boggo 180 cvt able to handle the power, need really light rollers though. and probably a new rear gearbox to change the speed of the rear wheel. hmm needs more (salt?) though.
Presentation:
Stuff into any 50cc moped and give the police the finger at every set of lights.
ep70 starlet, 4ef engine conversion. pt3.
Fixed last tank leak, will be insured this friday 🙂 it’ll rain 🙁 also will be insured on the runner 180!
more little things done, vacuum hose’s sorted and tubes bunged up.
quick spray over where the petrol leaked through and destroyed the last coat of paint.
Fingers crossed this only needs a switch-able 12v supply to make the sparks appear!
if i had a few spare quid i’d just go and buy an ep80 down pipe to match the 4efe manifold, but i don’t, so some cuting and welding will be done.
red stuff is faster.
fuel pump from a kawasaki, will be making up a different mount point, i just shoved it in for the photo.
inside of distributor.
cat poked out of manifold.
got sort an exhaust gasket. and do tons of little things more. then it’s fingers crossed it starts okay.
