13-08-2016, 03:52 PM
(This post was last modified: 13-08-2016, 03:56 PM by PocketFighter.)
Well today has mostly been cleaning rather than actually building...
Judging by the state of the plugs she was running rich, not so bad, just means i lacked power but had reliability... then when i inspected the head a bit more, exhaust ports were properly filthy! I thought i had removed the exhaust gaskets...to which i did, removed 4 of them... cleaned it up a bit more and revealed another 8 gaskets!!! 12 gaskets in total making it blow excessively and run even more rich... excellent! Lol
One of the bores is slightly scored, so im deciding how to do this now... do i spend £550 on a new set of oversized pistons (1mm) and get the cylinder overbored... or do i get it honed as much as poss to run standard size... more inclined to go for the oversized, if i want to be competitive then this would make sense
Valves look like they need to be lapped/seated, did a leak test and nothing visibly leaking, but will get them cleaned up and try the test again, fingers crossed i dont need to get new valves and seats, valves have seen better days to be fair, but will inspect them once i've spoken to a mate about the situation
Forgot to upload the pics!
Judging by the state of the plugs she was running rich, not so bad, just means i lacked power but had reliability... then when i inspected the head a bit more, exhaust ports were properly filthy! I thought i had removed the exhaust gaskets...to which i did, removed 4 of them... cleaned it up a bit more and revealed another 8 gaskets!!! 12 gaskets in total making it blow excessively and run even more rich... excellent! Lol
One of the bores is slightly scored, so im deciding how to do this now... do i spend £550 on a new set of oversized pistons (1mm) and get the cylinder overbored... or do i get it honed as much as poss to run standard size... more inclined to go for the oversized, if i want to be competitive then this would make sense
Valves look like they need to be lapped/seated, did a leak test and nothing visibly leaking, but will get them cleaned up and try the test again, fingers crossed i dont need to get new valves and seats, valves have seen better days to be fair, but will inspect them once i've spoken to a mate about the situation
Forgot to upload the pics!