| Author | Message | ||
     Ezblast |
 Cam and gear done, on to timing cup and ignition! Then prep to turn her over! EZ | ||
| Ezblast |
     She's a dirty girl, but the fires are ready to be lit! When Thomas comes over tomorrow we'll turn the key and see what happens! EZ | ||
| Ezblast |
Vader lives!!! Film to follow soon, but pics first!      EZ | ||
| Ezblast |
EZ | ||
| Blueblast |
Merry Christmas EZ!  | ||
| Ezblast |
Yeah! - And Happy Birthday!!!! EZ | ||
| Ezblast |
AF gauge installed! Thank you Nick for the technical help! I hope you get a superboot asap, so you can run that pro-series! I'm sure it will work well with a V&H. Long day - gn folks! EZ | ||
| Ezblast |
 Been riding - sore as heck, but doubled my distance and got a bruise on my toe - lol - practice , practice, practice! EZ | ||
| Ezblast |
Dash - https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1020562841858 0619&l=2860644271009604509 Taking Off! https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1020562842654 0818&l=5218937261691936672 Coming Up! https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1020562843026 0911&l=5484055925260922569 Run Back and Forth! https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1020562843542 1040&l=6815482667050196798 Done - except at 500 miles new rear tire and oils - time to ride to 8000!!!! EZ | ||
| Ezblast |
Thanks to both Nick and Thomas for making it a hell of a day! EZ | ||
| Flatheadbill |
Great lookin bike. What is the rear shock from? | ||
| Ezblast |
Works! I got it before they where a large fortune - lol - when they where only a small fortune! EZ | ||
| Ezblast |
New idea - straight from the horse's mouth on Facebook - lol - Erik Buell: Now one of these with an XBRR top end would be really badass. That would be about 75 RWHP... EZ | ||
| Ezblast |
Adjusted shifter to a more upright position for easier shifting and upped rpms to 8000, and curve to 9 - Vader is once again cooking with steam heat! A further note as well - which cheered me up no end since I was feeling a bit ill - Erik B. liked the picture of my bike on facebook - Terry P. is the only other Blast that happened with - made my day - with over 90 likes and one of them being Erik Buell - too cool - I copied that and made a pdf of it to mark the occasion! The picture is the one above I posted here. The article posted above the Darkside threads. A great day to be Blasting on the Dark side!!! EZ (Message edited by ezblast on January 20, 2015) (Message edited by ezblast on January 20, 2015) | ||
| Blueblast |
Way cool EZ! Hope you won't be needing a bigger helmet because of this  | ||
| Ezblast |
Naw - I'm just happy the bike is responding so well to the rebuild - better than ever in fact, now if my body would do the same, things would be perfect! All good things in time though. Also just wanted to say - it was a total Blastard effort though - a lot of what I had learned from others through the years and help from Both Lee, ErikO and Nick on physical technical parts that they knew better than I did. Especially for the finish - in a few hundred miles there will be another oil change and a tire change - then on to thousands of miles of smiles - for me this is the cool return for helping others, and now Il build a milder incity Blast - like I had of old and life will be good/is good - thank all you Blastards for sharing your knowledge with me through the years! EZ (Message edited by ezblast on January 23, 2015) | ||
| Ezblast |
Now on to my ongoing issue - the bike not responding fully to throttle input - lol - I thought I was retarded, so I kept advancing the ignition till I heard detination then I retarded it till it was gone - the hard way to check your timing issues - lol - I may have to retard a bit more come summer, but I'm fine now, but though that lessoned the issue, the issue was still there, so I said maybe the needle is too rich so I put it up to the top clip with the shim, and became way too lean, so I put my needle back where it was and that was good, so I took out the racing slide and associated spring and put in a new slide and yost spring and voila - she really started responding and turning into the monster I knew and loved that passed cars at will and generally - I can't figure why the racing slide did that - I know it is ultra light and smooth for ultra quick response, but could it be too light and just floating at certain rpms not allowing more acceleration - I haven't given up on it, but I do not have a solution, I was already running their spring, which I figured would compensate, but obviously not. Got me. EZ (Message edited by ezblast on January 26, 2015) | ||
| Gearheaderiko |
Is the slide for a Blast specifically or designed for a twin? I was told that the Blast spring is a twin high performance spring and having the 2 side by side that seems correct. So using a twin spring will hurt Blast performance. So maybe your answer is in that. Racing "stuff" is not always better, given the application. But you've spent so much time tuning your carb in, that maybe this is just one thing in a long list of things that don't work or don't work with your other mods. I'd trust your tuning rather trying to make something work just because you have it. | ||
| Ezblast |
Most of the stuff on my list is known to work - the variable was the slide, bit I wanted to rule out other outside influences first, so I checked timing, and af, left the slide - rest being good, so does the Blast spring have more or less tension than a twin? other interesting news - http://www.c5ignitions.com/motorcycle-ignitions.ht ml can program has tps adaptor, 80000 coil - 6800rpms -programable - can change rpms - new toy!!!! wow wow!! EZ (Message edited by ezblast on January 30, 2015) | ||
| Gearheaderiko |
Blast spring has less tension. I'm not saying the slide doesn't work, just that you might have already tuned around the problem the slide is supposed to fix, as in "there's more than one way to skin a cat!" | ||
| Ezblast |
Probably - Nick helped me dial in af - went to155 main 3/4 rich for a wot between 13 to 14 - and his response was very favorable this time. Tach dialed in, wot dialed in - bike way more responsive - voala! Definitely not in the stock Blast league any more. Then some playing with his tail light - which he needs to film for folks, and on to pizza and beer, then more beer on the patio. When getting ready to leave we bumped into a Tesla employee who was interested in our Buells, and I explained Buell to him, then EBR, and then Zero MC - lol - neighbors were holding a B/W party for their daughter's 16th birthday - lol - I showed nick a trick to brighten up the stock headlights on his GF's car, and they were off - a very good time was had by all. Another day of Blastards talkin treason. LOL - auto-correct gave me talkin over talking! EZ | ||
| Ezblast |
So for now final jetting - 46/160 with Yost red needle - in 3rd from top position shimmed with large yost shim, intellijet set 3/4 rich - AFs between 13 to 14.5 - all liveable. Now to go fill up, change a tire and have it balanced for free at Cyclegear. EZ | ||
| Ezblast |
On sustained wot would go to a bit over 15 so I went the next jet up - must be the Wisco piston demanding more fuel than the CP which I had at 155 with the daj. On to good news - 165 seems to be it both ways with the intellijet - at the halfway it hangs between 13.7 and 14.7 sustained, and if I was racing at sustained wot I would wind it up to max richness where it hangs at 13 to 13.7 which is good for racing but leaves my midrange just a tad rich when I fall back into it, but then of course it adjusts back down to 13.5 and above. So I'm definitely satisfied with that since I don't really do wot all that often except as part of transitory acceleration, and since not sustained at 8000 rpms it will never hit the 14.7s - lol - if I was racing - I'd just crank up the fuel usage. Intellijet keeping everything safe. The fun of this is I can do this while riding - lol EZ | ||
| Ezblast |
Still playing with the needle - I have gone back to the Blue needle and spent 50 miles dialing it in, stopping every 10 to re-adjust the needle down or shimming up. final solution that has me comfortably below 14 80%, below 14.7 97% of the time, and above 14.7 only for very transitory moments that I could dial out but would then leave me running richer all around. So unlike fi where you can dial in to almost the last drop your fuel usage, and guarantee the af parameters, the carb is a fluctuating almost random tool that you can set general guidelines for, and with skill you can bring into a general working area that works in your favor but is never a 100% co-operative like a dialed in fi. Am I satisfied though - yes, because if a lean condition started I could prevent damage with the Intellijet, because there is enough leeway to do so, yet it is not too fat that it drowns - that would suck - a few more hundred miles and I'll be able to pull the plug to figure out if I should go to a cooler plug or stay in the current heat range. I'm comfortable because the majority of the time it is between 14.2 and 13.4 - and that is very acceptable in anyones book. I did the work, because how can I help others, if I can not help myself, besides I like a challenge - part of which was shortening the fuel line for the Intellijet so that it didn't have so far to pull for fuel, and putting the one way valve closer to it as well. so I ate more gas today as well testing. Takes forever, it seems to get that taste out of your mouth. Anyway - the carb is finally dialed in, now on to dialing in the seat, the latch part is good, but I want to space it up a bit, so I will be taking it off and looking into that as my next challenge, and mounting that Primo 2 light as well - might as well use it. Since it is the fancy version of what I'm already running. So I'll try it and if I don't like it, it's on to the LED lighting that DBest is running that I recommended to folks almost a year ago. It would be a lot lighter than stock even with signals, and at least as bright as the Primo unit - which is a LED/HID combo light kit with built in signals, like what I'm running but more powerful all the way around, yet uses less juice. It will always be something, but I wanted to get the core mechanicals out of the way so I could enjoy! After messing with the seat, I'll be changing the rear tire - using the cut and strap on method - lol EZ | ||
| Ezblast |
Carb news - 4th clip space down on the Blue needle with 2 .01 shims was my final answer! EZ | ||
| Ezblast |
Not! - Again - went to doctor and then to pick up my script - af's dropped to 9s - wtf? - went home and now clip back to 3rd down with two .01 shims - will live with this - maybe go to a bigger shim - maybe not - sigh... EZ | ||
| Ezblast |
OK - final jetting - 46/170, Blue Yost needle with third from the needle's tip and no shims - perfect most of the time with just a falling out to either tad rich or just a tad lean in transitory moments - never any steady states. Will take it. Other news - installed the Rivera Primo 2 HEDLED headlight with super LED turn signals - basically a suped up version of what I was running -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6E5_C1ekfs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8Yj9yR-jc0 A nice improvement though. EZ | ||
| Ezblast |
 More riding! EZ | ||
| Ezblast |
Light off:  Low Beam - LEDs - very bright!  High Beam - 55wt HID + LEDs - omg daybright bright!  EZ | ||
| Ezblast |
Finally detailed and cleaned the bike - it's first serious cleaning - even the rear wheel now looks good.     EZ |
