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Post by donkeychomp on Sept 4, 2022 22:23:08 GMT 1
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Post by midlifecrisisrd on Sept 4, 2022 22:30:45 GMT 1
Knew what that was going to before I looked 🤣🤣🤣
Firstly it needs a ypvs motor. An engine transplant should really have more power
All that space above the engine. I'd have been tempted to do a tdr250 with the exhausts and exit them out the tail light holes 😏
Steve
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Post by headcoats on Sept 4, 2022 22:39:03 GMT 1
Needs a fairing to cover that small todger engine LOL
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Post by shaunthe2nd on Sept 4, 2022 22:51:40 GMT 1
Agreed, just doesn't sit right. Not for me.
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Post by stirling11 on Sept 5, 2022 11:28:49 GMT 1
Neat idea, as said above really needs a more powerful engine and a larger one to boost, that donk looks lost in that frame
The flip side is that you have more room to work and access everything without the frame or tank getting in the road
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Post by evochris on Sept 5, 2022 11:44:37 GMT 1
does not work for me, wrong engine in wrong bike. Bit pricey too
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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2022 12:47:55 GMT 1
Looks fooking ridiculous to be honest. I reckon the guy blew the motor in his GSXR and just happened to have an LC one kicking round in the shed. Throw in a few beers, and this is what happened.
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Post by steve63 on Sept 5, 2022 13:06:21 GMT 1
You know what? When I had a GSXR1100H, I'm not going to use the term 'Slabbie' it makes my teeth itch, I removed the engine to change the head gasket. It had an annoying weep that ground me down in the end. Sometimes it's much simpler to remove engines to work on them rather than bu@@er about with them in the frame.
I was much fitter and stronger than I am now and managed to haul the engine out and onto the bench on my own but it was a heavy lump and at my limit for lifting. Anyway when the engine was out I thought what's left of this weighs next to nothing. is I was to put an LC engine in this it would probably end up lighter than an LC. If it was now in the digital age I'd have slipped an engine in just for a photo.
One thing that has bugged me for a while with engine transplants and I'll get it off my chest now is when a bike with a stressed engine (where the engine is designed to be a part of the frame and is a major part of the frames stiffness like my my R1) has the engine fitted from a bike that doesn't have that arrangement. They fit a sub frame under the engine and that's it.
If you removed the R1 engine and built a sub frame under it to fit an LC engine the stiffness would be nowhere near the same but I see it a lot. It doesn't apply to this bike but it would if it was an SRAD. It doesn't sit right with my engineering brain.
BTW the GSX1100 engine from the model before the G/H/J was supposed to be 4" longer and 6" wider than a GSXR and a lot heavier. My R1 engine was a doddle to remove, put on the bench and fit again on my own. That's progress.
The more times I look at this the more I like it actually. If you saw it in the flesh it would probably look better.
It wouldn't need much of a tune to end up with more power than it started with and it wouldn't need to rev to 14,000rpm with no power band like a sewing machine to do it.
I've gone past plenty of these 400's on my 50hp RGV250 so a 60+ LC would be fine.
I noticed it's Nick Chambers selling it. Is he related to Steve the Pro Am guy?
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Post by ajh on Sept 5, 2022 14:17:28 GMT 1
Nicks the 'go to' guy for brakes on the air cooled forum.
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Post by midlifecrisisrd on Sept 5, 2022 14:34:25 GMT 1
All being said I bet it rides nice
Steve
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Post by Norbo on Sept 5, 2022 16:23:24 GMT 1
Im sorry But no the lump is to small for the frame looks lost . Like fitting an RD80lc in a 350lc
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Post by chrisg on Sept 5, 2022 16:45:49 GMT 1
It either needs side panels or on of Alan Millyards enginrs,and yes its Nicks bike (NSRNick) Lovely genuine guy.
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