writeoff

[pyrocam]

oh. $1600 to fix so you say? bigend failure you say? oh i see. well ahh thanks ill get back to you.

here are my options:
get it repaired (save some money but getting parts elsewhere)
offer it to colemans to cover costs of looking at it ($80)
get it off colemans. put it back together as best I can and sell it on trademe (maybe get a couple hundy?)
buy another engine and get it installed (maybe $500 all up)

im liking option 3 at this stage but need some opinions.

[bugjuice]

500 bucks for an engine? pfft.. i got a gsxr250 engine for 350.. k, you get what you pay for, but a single cylinder shouldn't be that much..
could rebore it to 175cc. and an engine swap is easy too

[pyrocam]

500 bucks for an engine? pfft.. i got a gsxr250 engine for 350.. k, you get what you pay for, but a single cylinder shouldn't be that much..
could rebore it to 175cc. and an engine swap is easy too

I meant incl labour and what I already owe

[bugjuice]

lazy sod. do it yourself

[crashe]

Pyrocam - What about that dude in your other thread...
He had parts for the bike real cheap... he is in the south island....
I can't remember the thread number or his name...

[NC]

Um, didn't you just get that thing?

[Ixion]

Does the RG150 donk fit ?

[bugjuice]

Um, didn't you just get that thing?

the rgv (I presume), not the cibber

[pyrocam]

Pyrocam - What about that dude in your other thread...
He had parts for the bike real cheap... he is in the south island....
I can't remember the thread number or his name...

yeah I could get parts through him. already got a piston etc. but id probably still be looking at near the $1000 mark I figure. (note, got piston for $65 odd which saved me $300 to get it from colemans)\

the rgv (I presume), not the cibber

sorry yeah the RGV

[crashe]

Um, didn't you just get that thing?

Pyrocam is talking about his RGV150 that he blew up....
He is wanting to get it fixed to sell...

[bugjuice]

is the cylinder barrel damaged? or is it just the piston?
I've been learning a heap about 2 smokes lately (thanx to MR), want me to have a quick squiz and see if there's much I can pick out?

[NC]

Pyrocam is talking about his RG150 that he blew up....
He is wanting to get it fixed to sell...

Ok, yeah I haven't been on lately to see whats going on.. Ta for that

[ZorsT]

Does the RG150 donk fit ?

It might, but I havn't ever seen a RG150 engine for sale by its self..

They always seem to have wheels and fuel tanks and stuff too

[pyrocam]

It might, but I havn't ever seen a RG150 engine for sale by its self..

They always seem to have wheels and fuel tanks and stuff too

I'm not sure if a RG engine would go into a RGV frame. with the whole water cooling thing going on

[inlinefour]

wack a MX 125cc engine in it and get it modified to run lights, they used to convert XM bikes for the road over in AUST, dunno if they still do. I could imagine that the bike would go quite fast then and MX engines are easier to get hold of.