Ok - motor's back together. I'm happy with it. If it was being campaigned at the Nationals, it'd have had loadsamoney spent. But it's going to do probably 2 -3 meetings a year max...And it's looking as it should - showing the patina of long and hard use.
Plenty of breathers to be seen - all going via reinforced hose to a metal catch can in the riders view. As the regs of the period stated for Nationals, LOL...What do they say now ?
The oil line up the back of the barrel is braided stainless. The OE steel line didn't like being bent to accomodate a .060in shorter barrel...I did 3 of these line sets, one's on Tony's motor and the third is on a motor I think Mark still has.
Carbs are RS36's. Tony wanted and got 38's. On shorter circuits this was nicer to ride than Tony's - his was all up the top end.
They're a porky bastard. 71kg - and 72HP at the wheel. Complete bike weighed back in the day, with battery and a couple of liters of fuel was 142kg.
Tony's Pink special was actually heavier. So were most of the 400 fours....
I'd forgotten just how difficult it is timing these up. Backwards rotation and the cam ramping means nothing will stay where it's put...
Oh, the bellmouths are actually GSXR750H carb to airbox rubbers. The center two are straight but the outers are curved. They were plentiful at the time...
Being rubber, you don't damage anything pulling the carbs off - which was every meeting when on Meth, just to clean them.
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