Norwood

[Sieg]

Originally Posted by The Patch

Very nice car Sieg. Thanks for posting.

I guess I'm in the minority, but I really like the vinyl tops. Particularly on orange and yellow 69s. I seriously considered putting one on mine. I think your car looks awesome.

Do you have specific plans for the build going forward?

Thanks Bryan.

I have a few more posts to add to this overnite biography to get the car to it's current state and what I want it to be. Stay tuned.

[Sieg]

Continuing the biography - When I bought the car it had an old Holley square bore dual feed that I could never ID exactly what it was. It ran great on top but around town it wasn't too good. Edelbrock had just come out with their 1400 series so I put a 1406 on the car and bought a tuning kit.

Having had cars with Weber DGV and DCOE carbs I was pretty comfortable with jetting the Weber made 1406. it was good around town and strong in the mid range but I never could get decent upper rpm performance from it. I wasn't sure if it was myself, the metering or the cfm so in 2001 or so when BG came out with the Speed Demon Series I thought the 650vs may be the ticket.

Well as it turned out the idle circuit in the early Speed Demons sucked, almost as much as BG's tech department. The Demon top end was better but idle and off idle transition was mediocre. I recently solved the transition by drilling the pump nozzles from .028 to .035, going with a green pump cam, and playing with the vac secondary springs. So much for their marketing promise of ready right out of the box.

The top end is still a little soft for the way the motor builds power in the mid-range. The Edelbrock Torker II manifold that came on the car is weak link IMO. I know, it's kinda of obvious but when you're not hanging around gearheads a lot and have limited test and tune time and we'd just had our first child, I was a little handicapped.......some will argue I still am. Nobody's ever accused me of being excessively smart and I like to tinker, those two traits compliment each other nicely.

[intocarss]

Edelbrock's 1400 series carbs were trash as well as the Demons. Back then we played with both and never could make them work through out the whole RPM range. LOL at BG's tech service

[Sieg]

OK - Fast forward about ten years, six motorcycles, and the first kid has a sister now and they're 10 and 13. Decide you're not getting any younger, you don't heal as quick, and at some point reaction time and vision is going handicap motorcycling at the level you like to ride, so another strategy is in order.

Phase one were these:


Phase two was this:


Those items lead to this


A little clearancing


A little cutting


A little fitting & welding


And a little makeup

[Vegas69]

Good, a thread of yours that I can jack. It's about time you told us a little about yourself.

[Track Junky]

Awesome story Sieg!! God Speed to your friend Bob. Friends like that are very few and far between.
Glad to see your adding to the snall collection of leaf sprung and stock subframed build threads!!

[Sieg]

Originally Posted by Vegas69

Good, a thread of yours that I can jack. It's about time you told us a little about yourself.

Lord knows I've got some payback coming. It's partially your fault it took me so long.....your car has given Norwood a serious low self-esteem complex.

[Sieg]

Originally Posted by Track Junky

Awesome story Sieg!! God Speed to your friend Bob. Friends like that are very few and far between.
Glad to see your adding to the small collection of leaf sprung and stock subframed build threads!!

Thanks Gaetano. Being a minority ain't easy at times, especially if you're the faster orange and black combo.

[Ron in SoCal]

About time Sieg...

Great read and project! I've always liked the orange and black combo.

[Sieg]

Originally Posted by Ron in SoCal

About time Sieg...

Great read and project! I've always liked the orange and black combo.

Thanks Ron - Appreciate it.