It's not finalized yet but looks like I will soon be the owner
of a ex pro stock motor with a blown gearbox and cases for the right price :-)
It will be turned into the street motor for my zephyr build...
The head alone started out as a eddie Lawson eight plug head and that is before
it was turned into something that can make well over 240 hp in race trim.....
I am told it is the best kwaka based head in Australia before they turned to after market heads....
The rest is the same spec, the cases and box need to go in the bin but the multi stage, falicon crank
1500 bigblock are still all fresh from its last rebuild, same with head...
Don't think I can use the 44 mm lectrons on the street tho :-)
It won't be to hard to transform it into a smaller cam (still over 400lift but the 500+ lift cams in it were still making
power and torque over 11500 rpm on the dyno) and lower comp motor (just on or just under 10:1)
...
Cheers Matt
I hate being bipolar, its awesome!
So the plot thickens...... Have been talking to the engine builder and found out the specs..... I'm still buying it, but we are looking at the work I need to do to street it...... Having a look though the week, there is a bloke building a very similar motor very interested in the whole motor for his build...... He has a head ready to go that prob flows only just over 30% less than this, it won't need new valve springs and resealing where the ports crest into the bucket reliefs every 6 mths ..... Not nearly as much fun I know but still a 170-180 hp motor with well well over 100 ft pound that I prob will fettle in house with some tricks..... Revving to under 10k on 91 Ron it should be interesting.... I don't mind all the machine work I needed to match the parts together but hate the on going maintenance to get it to live at highe kms..... Valve springs alone $300+ replaced like oil... I thought of keeping it for racing in comp bike but if I go racing I really want to do a blown injected bike like the one I'm building
Excellent work Lynton. A perfectly symetrical creation like that is a serious skill mate.
Thanks Simon, not to bad for my first real attempt even if I say
so myself. Mind I thought they where crazy wanting to cut
up a ex nitro Harley frame to fit the blown inline 4 but I recon
it looks like it was always meant to be
Excellent work Lynton. I bet you heaps for the next time as well
Looks like between Scott, Jason and I there is around 15 street bikes alone to build for ourselves lol
Only 15?
Don't worry Tom two more turned up at home after I typed that....
Oh and Saturday looks like we looking at some more
Sighs who needs sleep anyway
Amazing work Lynton, love the workshop pictures as well. Serious tool and space envy lol
If you don't mind me asking, why the BOV between the charger and the head? There's no butterfly valves between the head and the charger to create a sudden spike is there? Or are you just going to use it a pressure safety valve to safe guard an over boosting situation?
Spot on mate, it works like a burst plate in case of backfire etc...
Planning on doing anything special for the oil fill/drain in the charger snout ?
I have two and half weeks to finish the bike so short answer no