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:hello:

Typically Jimmy Caan doesn't evoke empathy in his movie characters, but that whackjob chick did him a 10!

:lol:...

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"Sprained and stretched" sounds better than torn or detached. Sounds like you’ll be fine… that’s good news!

Take care and obey the doc :sieg:

Thinking of scenes in that movie still gives me the willy's at times.

What flowmaster are you using? Sounds different

Didn't change the muffler, it's this one but from 1991, don't know if it's been changed.
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Sounds like some of the mechanical rasp is gone due to the tail pipes angle and possibly shorter length?

I like the sound or yours. I have 50 series flowmasters and not happy about it

Congrats Sieg sounds great....smooth with a nasty edge. :cool:

Thanks gents. That video is shot with the GoPro Hero3 with the new firmware upgrade so that's probably change the sound a little. I'll shoot one with my DSLR to compare the sound against the other video.

Don't like that smoke! Couldn't tell if it was oil or fuel, might need to make a serious ring seating run. :headscratch:

Loose is fast.....

Agreed, hoping for better with 400 miles on a fresh hone and new rings.

Those heads have Chinese valve seals? LOL!

Cost me almost a grand just to have those heads "re-done".... by one of the best head guys here in Seattle... So no... better not be chinese seals!


Think it might be the Chinese guy that tuned it?? Didn't look like blue smoke to me in the video... and how long had it idled???

Hard to tell but that smoke looked dark. Car could of loaded up a little while idling too.

Just f'n with ya. It's most likely loaded up and the owner is excessively paranoid. :sieg:

HA HA:newbie:

No worries I know the guy that did the carb and he's a hack. :mock: I'm sure it's just rich on the transition.

Sounds good :thumbsup:

Ahh Soo Greggyson, I tink u may be on 2 sumptin gardin da tun'r. :thumbsup:

little rich on the left bank, right side looks good.

Well that's a 10 to 1 vote in favor of the issue being a crappy tuner.... er I meant.... a rich carb. :smiley_smack:

Handicapped would be more appropriate in my case........:sieg:
Especially if it qualifies me for all that vacant prefered parking. :D

Us old two-stroke guys learned the lesson the hard way.........erroring on the rich side doesn't blow stuff up. :thumbsup:

nothing wrong with it....helps when you get tailgated alot. :bur2:

One thing I like about Lat-g is not posting in my project thread for 18 days and I've been bumped to position 114! :thumbsup:

Regarding the carb......I pulled it off to reverify butterfly positions and change back to the 6.5 (as delivered) power valves. Transfer slot exposure was .025 as I was told by the Holley Tech.......:headscratch: I thought screw that since I've been getting a crappy idle signal (rich at idle, lean at take off) and closed the primary and secondary butterflies then opened them a 1/4 turn, checked the pump linkage tension, went back to the 70 idle air jets as delivered, and set the fuel screws at 1 turn out.

Fired it up and tried to adjust to a stable 1K rpm idle with the idle air bypass circuit but it wanted to hunt a little. Gave it about 1/8 turn on P/S butterflies and readjusted the IA bypass and it was close. Put a vac gauge to it and set the fuel screws which end up around 1.25 turns. Bingo! It was close. Test drive indicated when slowing to a stop it wanted to stall, added an 1/8 turn on the full screws, better, another 1/8 and it's pretty close.

If that tech happens to read this............:smiley_smack:

Today the daughter and I took a quick trip to the scales to verify the car weight.............

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Weights are with just over 3/4 of a tank of fuel.
3360 with 90 lbs of fuel - Front 55.35% Rear 44.65%

Looking great Sieg, love your pictures.

Oprah eat your heart out...........:D
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Thanks mate :thumbsup:

Sieg, have you tried playing with your screw in air bleeds yet? I know back in the day I drilled the ones out in my HP 830 and it made a difference for the better. Cant remember the details now as it was so long ago but it maybe something to look into.

Yes, I started with the 70's, went to 68's (richer) in the goosechase, then back to the 70's for the sequel.......I also bought some 73's just in case. It's in the ballpark based on drivability but I need to get an AF gauge installed for verification. Then mount the GoPro to capture the AF gauge and tach for a little redneck telemetry. :D

Ran it up to 6.5K for the first time since the freshen up and slammed 2nd today leaving the weigh scales and had no transition complaints.

Still maybe a touch lean as it needs to get to full op temp for a good idle, 6th gear throttle response at 2K rpm with my 3:31 gears is nice and smooth. ALso has a slight surge under trailing throttle when cornering, I believe that indicates a slight lean condition which fuel screw adjustments should eliminate.

The tuning weather here has been 48*-62* then 59*-84* windy cloudy rain and varying humidity........in one week. :D

It should be good enough to make a trip to T-Hill if the stars align right! :unibrow:

When r u guys going? My LS is complete (mostly) and is in dire need of a good road trip and T-hill is about 2.5 hr from my house and i'd love to meet some of you guys and watch, although my beast is not ready for the trac yet, though u never know....

Btw thanx for the KTM country referal, Bart was great and now my orange bike is white and black with Pirelli dot trails tire on it for the Tahoe loop....

Mike

Rumour has it, I MAY be going fuel injected ...........more to come

SHOOOOOOOOOOOOOSH :secret:

Only 6.2 hours from my place.

I thought about your plastics and was meaning to pm you today, very glad to hear another KTM Country success story! :thumbsup:

Traitor! :smiley_smack:

Gawd I love that smilie! :D

I gotta ask...ya driving it down?

If it doesn't happen it sure won't be for lack of desire. :secret:

The car is looking good :thumbsup:

I you go to Thunder Hill be sure to get some on track video with the GoPro :drive:... I wanna see what you got!

I checked the weights on my car for comparison to yours... our cars are pretty similar other than the LS engine vs the Gen 1 engine.

weight on mine is with 1/2 of a tank of fuel
total weight 3470, front 1840, rear 1630
53% front, 47% rear.

Pretty close on weights... mine is a little heavier overall for some reason.

SONOMA -- NOR CAL SHELBY CLUB -- August 3rd and 4th...


http://www.norcal-saac.org/summersurprise/

Charley and I are signed up.



"The Rig" was dropped off at Poulsbo RV today for 30' X 12' of Girard awning.... BBQ is installed... Water is loaded... Chairs? Check! Even have the Direct TV satellite up and working... (so Charley can nap peacefully).

Greg might be going to Thunderhill but the rest of us are going to Sears Point. It would be nice if Greg brought the pimpin mobile to the right track so I could have a place to take a nap.

No plan on entering, I'll just be playing pit-tootsie. :theresa: The car has to get me back!

Regarding weights - Cooler and lines, coolant capacity, dry sump and lines, oil, rear sway bar, rear discs, subframe connectors, roll bar, stereo and speakers, etc. all add up.

Thank gawd I gave you a heads up! --- I'd have been sitting there all by my lonesome!


Fixededededed it!!!