track day on schedule!
Weel foook! so that was where the yzf bits were, hiding under a bunch of camper gear stuff, who put that shit there?
Once it’s on the wheels, i’ll roll it down to the real shed and weld it up.
Lucky teds is doing the painting, coz i’d have the tyre on all ready and all the paint chipped.
whats left? put on tyre, test drive.
racing fiftys and restoring 7fiftys
So nifty fifty 2015 race report, it’s not good people, first i got a camping stove so that i wouldn’t smoke out brahams van. then brahams van died, so i stayed in a B&B with stephen.
morning of the race..
race was a complete fail. the transponder was flaky, the tyres had 30psi in them from the new years day run, i fell off, braham fell off, i was 7 seconds off, dropped tyre pressure to 24psi instead of 20 thinking the tyre was hot, not quite enough but better, at the end of the day i took the last 15 minutes of the race and got down to a 1.32, still two seconds off but lessons learned for next year.
Next important thing is the fix up the yzf750, gotta do some trackdays, yzf is perfect.
Decided to change the front wheel, i knew it was cracked and had been welded very well, but it leaked and anywho i had a better wheel. Also reason to change from badly painted orange wheel to yellow, mismatched lurid wheels are so 90’s right?
no contest in the end there was only one yellow at halfords and i can’t be arsed to go any further, on with the white primer and soon on with the fiat bloom yellow.
More bits lost, fucking clueless as to where everything is. they have to be in a bucket somewhere!
this upper bar is supposed to be horizontal as far as i can tell from yamaha brochures. i’ll weld it up when it’s back on its wheels and the body work is going on
Future bajacorsa tube bumper?
Inappropriate parking edition!
Maccy D’s overflow car park.
Soggiest bit of ground at vernon mount.
Careful now almost ended up on the track. and that would be bad.
Crappy hand brake won’t even lockup downhill on mud..
Then i went the long way to dunnes for the shopping.
Okay it wasn’t that difficult a long way around.
Also i’m shit at action photography 🙂
I’m better at puppies.
Totally fit the BC in their, though they might notice one of these things is not like the other, so instead i went home.
pretty BajaCorsa pics
Front looks a bit low, but it’s more the hill i’ve parked it on.
Deserved i’m sure.
Think the next best thing would be to make some spherical top mounts, which would give the front a touch more lift and be less shit then the opel solution. this would be good spot to compare something really shit to the opel mounts, but nothing is shit enough.
And one pretty shot of the new server, which i’ve decided to call X101H, and the domain is ramp rather then moloch, not really sure why but i’m alright with that.
extra fat chicks please
Finally fitted the X101H asus eee-pc into its custom box.
Stuck in a new 500GB hard drive today, Point linux, debian just requires more work to stay up todate, i’ll trade the reliability.
Yep Sky+ box, needs a top lid to finish.
To the BajaCorsa:
Feck all snow to test the snow tyres.
got my lift springs this morning so i charged in. RJ5398 estate astra f dual rate springs.
On this end, the bottom if it matters which way up it should go in, got a mouth about 55mm wide.
The top of the cosrsa spring is about 35mm wide.
But both of them have one 40mm end, so in it went, it’s not perfect but i can eventually make up a spacer to firmly locate the upper spring. it’s not going anywhere right now, the static sag is a bit on the non-existent side…
Front came off nice and easy, left is corsa right is the combo. had a though after i swapped the first leg, should look at the upper thrust bearing, bit ropy, so a bit of a clean and some grease and on went the second leg.
Rears on, axle stands no longer tall enough.
Getting late, both ends done
Test drive shows that the lack of static sag makes lots of topping out bangs, so to bring that sag back, two spare wheels, all the old shocks and springs and a box of tools.
That left rear shock was leaking anyway, more driving needed, may swap shock about, most of the road holes are on the left anyway
Made it to the shops later, no nice finishing pic, too damn busy. only done 2-3 miles, steering massively lightened with nice thrust bearings, me likey.
Replace front bumper with tube work and a winch next time i’m let out.
Found a serow225 in the shed, nice. think I’ll be getting the knoblies for the xl250.
more race bike prep
Older by another year! least the cake was awesome.
More cub prep, fitted the upper bushings for the shocks, no more floating about the place. Stuck on the race numbers, cunningly modifying the bracket to hide our Öhlins TTX shocks.
Should i wash it for the race? note in the shade to the left there an ominous rubber ring hanging off the side cover…
Feck. wanted honda p50 head lamp lens, 100 bloody euro on ebay.
Sarge: race ya? Me: hells ya.
Cork Toy Run 2014 & and some nifty fifty tweaks
I would pay €1000 for patina like that! as long as i got the gsxr1100 attached.
Cork toy run 2014, really nice fireblade here, but only got two good photos, aprillia swingarm, fiull spec ohlins forks
Urals?
Other ninetys on the run
Really nicely engineered trike, check out the rear camber adjuster and the front wheel, not sure what’s happing there.
Back home dirty. think i’ll clean it before the race.
One job done the day after, gotta tuck that rear brake lever in.
Was raining by the time i finished, also drilled the pedal, for lightness 🙂
Ought to make up at least one position per lap now at dunlop 😀
Lifted Corsa
Loving the knobblies, found one small muddy hill to attack, mega ruts and holes half the size of the car, did great.
didn’t do it twice tho, farmer in a pajero was judging me 🙂
more muddy trails and patches needed, scrub/waste land would probably give me punctures. might be just be alright for shots maybe.
have a Nikon D40 for good photos, can’t find the charger 🙁
Fixing things up
This 88 landrover thing is in Dublin zoo, annoyingly good shape..
Next up i was poking at my main computer when the heaksink fell off!
Easy to fix up, bigger fan along with some arctic paste of some sort i got off Donal about a million years ago.
Bigger quieter slower, all good.
Parts for the BajaCorsa!
Got given rear springs from a 00 astra, the wrong one’s. Combo front look the job.
Spent a few days chasing a set of 14″ wheel, gave up and dug these out.
Colour works i think.
Spare wheel also has some colour
If you like that sort of thing 🙁
Disc’s look a bit worn. and very tiny for a 995kilo car.
this passed it’s NCT about 200 miles ago?! the fuck are we paying for this shite in Ireland.
7.50 x 16 on a Corsa? why not?
By this time any way i’d only found three of my old starlets wheels, the feck with it any way i wrapped the new tyres on two at least.
Though i had tracked the third one down in there, nope some 5 stud wheel with two trees growing through it.
Only shot i have with new tyres fitted, must say the extra half inch plus the et38 fill out the archs nicely, also there appears to be enough space between strut and tyre to fit a 650mm. good to know…
Ended up wrapping the old et49 rims with the knobblies for the rear. But i could barely see my hands at that point it got so dark. also i’m working for the next thee days so i won’t see any more sunlight until Thursday
Another Thing NCT centre failed at, the ABS sensor wire has come adrift and was rubbing again the wheel.
Leaks but it’s still damping as it should. Spring it 13.5mm wire Dia. and 40mm opening at each end. might need that info to finally get the springs i need. may even have to get new ones. :/ don’t wanna spend much more money.
Mega updatesZ!
No excuses I’ve been doing feck all.
Got Married and now i have a proper welding mask, wedding gifts don’t come better.
Also a lathe turned up, nope it’s not working yet 🙂
Took the motor out of the dominator for the GB400, supposed to take the CR gearbox out of the GB and put it in the 650, i’m all for just swap and go playing!
In other news i got this for free… i may have been robbed… (figure of speech mum, your car is lovely!)
Picture do not show ‘orrible hub caps. Recognize the grey paint?
Leaks in the rear, fixed by making a rubber gasket out of a car mat.
Leaking in the front fixed by liberal application of cheap army surplus store stuff. Yes i breath through that pollen filter.
Bit dead that one..
Looking at the stut tops up there and the rear axle..
I have a new found respect for the x10xe, it seems to be pulling the remains of a vectra A/cavalier C. I.E. a fucking huge fat car.
If i fit Vectra rear springs and dampers, Corsa Combo font struts, a winch, some 620mm winter knoblies with the archs cut up and disconnect the EPS, i should feel right at home 😀
Sunroof is a prime spot for a turret too 😛
Lastly (that i can remember anyway) is the yzf750, i got some cheap forks and a non busted front wheel. the fork as a bit shite but they don’t leak and a change of oil and some fine tuning of the chome (wet n’ dry ftw) should see the yzf bombing about the place looking oh so 90’s.
That would be, if i could find where the feck i put the top yoke!
also the XL250K3? yep that runs 😀
