Recent content by daves86vmax

Hi Max,yes it does not do it once it's been warmed up.once it's warm I could start it a hundred times and never have it happen but the first start of the day or even after sitting for 4 or 5 hours it will sound like a gunshot straight out the tailpipe. I'm not sure if it's the same pipe...

I'll do that. Thank you sir

Mostly after the bike had sat overnight or even for a few hours but when I choke it a little and start it it shoots off a gunshot loud backfire.i imagine it has something to do with the carbs.ideas?

By the way I fixed the stumble. I have the c.o.p. Kit on my bike instead of the factory coils/boots/wires.turns out one of my cops had been dug into by the coolant hose clamp and it was arcing out and must've ruined it. I replaced it(after slipping a piece of hose around it to protect it from...

Diaphragms look fine,2 are fairly new. When it started doing this is was immediate. Fine one minute and then bad soon after when I really got on it which is why I was thinking maybe I sucked some dirt in somewhere. Bikes ran fine since I got it in 08 so I didn't see a reason to drill the plugs...

Help please,My 86 seems to be running fine under normal use but if I take off from a dead stop and really crank the throttle open it stumbles an acts like its not getting enough fuel to it.i drilled my brass plugs out and have been tweeting them(since this condition started)but it doesn't make...

we took a 1300 mile round trip from ohio to deals gap and back with some friends of ours,they had big comfy touring bikes but the max did just fine and we werent as sore as we thought we'd be.rode down the foothills parkway south down the dragon and across the cherohala skyway.

Thanks guys.its .062 aluminum,I have access to a brake and shear at work so I worked it in between "real" work and welded itduring lunch.

heres the bellypan i came up with after a couple failures.pretty happy with it.

do the front calipers on a 93-07 bolt up to an 86 ?theyre dual piston and my 86 is the single piston and was thinking it would be a decent low cost upgrade.thanks

Probably could squeeze 3 switches the size shown but in the middle is the steering head nut which might cause some clearance issues.if u were to go with narrower switches u could probably easily put 4 in there.I only plan on 2 max or maybe mount a clock or an LED battery voltage readout

finally figured out a decent looking spot to mount my switch to.just bent some .062 aluminum from work into an angle,notched it and rolled the ends around and tack welded in place,primed and painted and there it is.i bolted it in place with the lower two bar clamp bolts.

in the man cave by choice.it'll be right at home in there..lol...the poster says "Baylands Raceway CA. Yamaha's 145 H.P. Vmax becomes the fastest,quickest,most powerful production bike ever"

received my glorious poster the other day and finished my frame and its ready for the wall...lovin it

I ran mine at National trails raceway here in ohio last summer and was told I needed a leather jacket,boots,good gloves,and a Snell rated helmet.I didn't have a Snell but they had loaner helmets