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From: Champ on 4 Jun 2010 08:24 Regular readers will know that my ZX10R has the engine from the race bike that nearly killed me two years ago. Whether that motor had got damaged in the crash (i.e. revved its nuts off upside down, or similar) was always an unknown, so the only way to find out was to fit it and run it. Which I did a couple of months ago. And it all seemed fine... ....right up to the point where it was run flat out on the dyno on Weds. On the 5th or 6th run the power dropped off a bit, and then the oil light came on. We dropped the oil, and didn't find any alarming shiny bits, so put new oil and filter in, started it up, and the oil light was off. So I rode it a bit, and it seemed fine... ....until I gave a damn good run over the mountain yesterday. At the next stop, the light flickered on at tickover, but went out above 2k revs. And then there was a new engine noise. Again, not too alarming, but a noise that wasn't there before. So, time to park it, before anything *really* bad happened. I've got the original road motor in my garage. So I rang up Gyp and Black Mike, and said, "Could you box/palette the engine while I figure out how to get it over to the Island". Which they did, and then Gyp took it 40 miles (admittedly on his way to where he was going anyway) to the freight depot where it was put on a truck this morning, and will be with me tomorrow. I'm busy doing racing stuff tomorrow (inc doing a wheel change during a pit stop! Ulp...), so the engine swap will be Sunday morning. And I'll leave the sick tuned motor with Slick for a refresh once the TT rush has gone. Anyway, without Gyp and Mike, I'd be crying into my beer and getting an early ferry home and a recovery truck down the M6. Cheers guys -- Champ on t'Island
From: Wicked Uncle Nigel on 4 Jun 2010 08:38 Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Champ <neal(a)champ.org.uk> typed > >I'm busy doing racing stuff tomorrow (inc doing a wheel change during >a pit stop! Ulp...) Top tip: Do *not* overtighten the spindle. -- Wicked Uncle Nigel - "He's hopeless, but he's honest" I've always been a man who's open to persuasion
From: doetnietcomputeren on 4 Jun 2010 09:59 On 2010-06-04 14:38:53 +0200, Wicked Uncle Nigel <wun(a)wicked-uncle-nigel.me.uk> said: > Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Champ > <neal(a)champ.org.uk> typed >> >> I'm busy doing racing stuff tomorrow (inc doing a wheel change during >> a pit stop! Ulp...) > > Top tip: Do *not* overtighten the spindle. <snort> DAHHHK,HJDOK. -- Dnc
From: Grimly Curmudgeon on 4 Jun 2010 11:33 We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Champ <neal(a)champ.org.uk> saying something like: <snip IoM tribs> >Anyway, without Gyp and Mike, I'd be crying into my beer and getting >an early ferry home and a recovery truck down the M6. Cheers guys A sterling effort all round, I would say.
From: Nige on 4 Jun 2010 14:22
Champ wrote: > Regular readers will know that my ZX10R has the engine from the race > bike that nearly killed me two years ago. Whether that motor had got > damaged in the crash (i.e. revved its nuts off upside down, or > similar) was always an unknown, so the only way to find out was to fit > it and run it. Which I did a couple of months ago. And it all seemed > fine... I never went over 6k...honest :) -- Nige, Land Rover 90 Yamaha R1 Range Rover Vogue |