Part mods…

October 5, 2007

Continuing the porting started a year ago…

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When I was porting the head, I left it outside over a towel… The dog pulled the towel and head on floor!!!

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After the 2nd resurface, clean valves…

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As the valve seats were a bit deep into the head, there was a very sharp step between the cc and the valve seat, so I’ve machined it to prevent flow losses.

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Inlet port straightned also slightly enlarged.

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Exhaust port roof raisened.

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Inlet valves after a 2 angle regrind, 45º seat and 30º above it.

The left one was polished with 50 grit sandpaper, then 280, 600 and finally 600 with WD-40.

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Same treatment here… I’ve polished them not in search of more hp, but to prevent carbon adhering so easily.

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Same thing to the exhaust valves… Not so polished because the steel is much harder compared to the inlet.

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Note the lightened piston. I’ve managed to take 4 grams out but it still remained to heavy compared to rest of the pistons (weight in grams with the gudgeon pin)… :(

I’ve put them in order so that the rotating equilibrium is not very disturbed by different piston weight’s (not the order in the pic…)

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About 600g were taken out of the flywheel (400g near the ring gear)

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Ground and polished crank (fillets respected)