Air box help

[TerraRoot]

got the sizes off the seller

Length = 265mm
Width = 140mm
Throat = 62mm

off out the garage to measure up the bike. and to ponder how to make a pipe that go's from 44mm inner dia to 62mm outer dia and snakes around the spine of the frame.

[TerraRoot]

Had a measure up and it's to big, so this year it looks like it's just a simple k&n filter. Next year i may chop out the main frame spine and replace it with twin down tubes.

[SS90]

Had a measure up and it's to big, so this year it looks like it's just a simple k&n filter. Next year i may chop out the main frame spine and replace it with twin down tubes.

Cool!

Can you tell us what bikes you intend to be racing against (you said there where no buckets in Ireland (I thought there was "moped" racing though.....)) Depending on what you are allowed to do to your bike for the intended racing, it may well be a worthwhile effort to fit your engine into an old 125 GP frame (RS,TZ etc), as I would suggest that your current frame will end up causing you some grief (handling wise that is) when you start to push it's limits)

Although......racing it like it is will score you some "brownie" points from the Kiwi boys (and girls), that's for sure!

And that really is what the original bucket concept was about!

I have always felt personally that using an old 125 GP frame (or similar) was "not in the spirit" (new rules aside), and tantamount to "cheating"....

whereas, putting 17 inch rims and slicks on an old GN125 (with an old Harris megaphone, and header pipe made from bits in the garage,with a carb from an old DR200....... that's Buckets!

[Sully60]

I have always felt personally that using an old 125 GP frame (or similar) was "not in the spirit" (new rules aside), and tantamount to "cheating"....

whereas, putting 17 inch rims and slicks on an old GN125 (with an old Harris megaphone, and header pipe made from bits in the garage,with a carb from an old DR200....... that's Buckets!

That pipe and those shocks are a bit flash for a bucket though!
Though it's the rules and I suck it up I tend to agree re the GP bike chassis thing, they should be considered horsepower multipliers in the same way supercharging is.

TerraRoot you need a bike with a bigger engine bay

[F5 Dave]

That pipe and those shocks are a bit flash for a bucket though!
Though it's the rules and I suck it up I tend to agree re the GP bike chassis thing, they should be considered horsepower multipliers in the same way supercharging is.

TerraRoot you need a bike with a bigger engine bay

[looks at picture] Hmm, . . . beam frame, slicks, upside down forks. . .

[TerraRoot]

There is a local annual drag race and hill climb. if I entered I'd win, no one else bothers with the small capacity class. The place I'm gonna get the most use for this thing will be if I get 2 of my friends onto similar bikes (or just get em to break out there nsr80's and tzr125's) and head to the local gokart track,we could pretend to race and maybe go from there(flyers at the bikes shops, petition the the local motorcycle club). either way I can make up the rules as I go along and ban them all at the prize giving ceremony (AKA the pub) afterwards.

[koba]

There is a local annual drag race and hill climb. if I entered I'd win, no one else bothers with the small capacity class. The place I'm gonna get the most use for this thing will be if I get 2 of my friends onto similar bikes (or just get em to break out there nsr80's and tzr125's) and head to the local gokart track,we could pretend to race and maybe go from there(flyers at the bikes shops, petition the the local motorcycle club). either way I can make up the rules as I go along and ban them all at the prize giving ceremony (AKA the pub) afterwards.

It would be cool to see bucket racing or somthign like it on the other side of the world!

[SS90]

either way I can make up the rules as I go along and ban them all at the prize giving ceremony (AKA the pub) afterwards.

Well, you certainly have the correct attitude/sense of humour to be a bucket racer.....banning all bikes that beat you is always a good move!

[Buckets4Me]

Though it's the rules and I suck it up I tend to agree re the GP bike chassis thing, they should be considered horsepower multipliers in the same way supercharging is.

what about good riding skills
that should also be banned

people with good skills should be considered horsepower multipliers in the same way supercharging is.

how will I ever be as fast as you lot then ????

[craisin]

good amount of humour in this thread

[TerraRoot]

Mini update, got a moped airbox/filter thing on order along with sticky sava mc7 tyres. Once they get here it just have to fix up a tail light and it's off to the dyno. where the engine will blow up.




Like my induction tube?

[SS90]

How goes it with the tyres and airfilter?

The first bucket in Ireland will always be the most powerful one (for a while!)

[Skunk]

how will I ever be as fast as you lot then ????

Mate, you beat me at Taupo last year with your 'should be banned' frame and 'should be banned' factory engine...

Like my induction tube?

Is that what you call it?

[TerraRoot]

The place I ordered the tyres from don't have em in stock, so there on order and taking forever, Plans are afoot but i have no money so they have to be cheap plans and in the mean time I'm fixing up some of my other stuff. Damn car is too slow.

@Skunk
€160's worth of high technology that! (Boy racers actually believe me when i say that to em....)