a visit to the shop

[Fire-medic]

Friday on the way home from work, I stoppped by the shop to see what they were working-upon.

One fellow was happy his MTC Engineering Generation II multistage clutch cam in for his Hyabusa. want one, the latest technology for your beast? Bring a 30-high stack of Ben Franklins. That will get you an rpm-dependent lock-up clutch, to give you better time off the line, and full engagement to get your power down the track. Almost too-pretty to cover up.

Here's a J-model Kawasaki being buttoned-back-up, the owner spent probably the value of the bike to refurbish it. Early KZ 1000 frame & bodywork with a late-model J-model engine.

And a 4 cyl Gold Wing, a lotta custom work, running two double-barrel Weber 40 mm DCOE carbs, something I've posted on here before, getting closer to completion.

It's got a carbon-fiber tray for the components under the seat, which is going to be a Tracy-Design style gas tank cover/seat/rear cowl. You can see the Dyna coils and the other electrical components. The pipeframe support for the seat/rear cowl is visible.

Another Kawasaki KZ has the engine pulled and he's gonna be dumping about $3500 in parts into it to make a 1300+ cc MTC block engine.

Finally, the 'Ghetto Turbo' is awaiting its trip to the dyno. A Hyosung v-twin with a re-purposed John Deere small tractor turbo. The rear got a custom piece to improve its looks.

 

[dannymax]

Some really cool stuff! Love that clutch....and the Ghetto Turbo. :clapping:

 

[caseyjones955]

Thats a whole batch of cool stuff. Nothing is cooler than homemade turbos.

 

[Traumahawk]

That is a real shop. Thanks for posting.

 

[Fire-medic]

Working on a Hyabusa. Guy fragged his oil pan and kept driving after landing a hard wheelie. The #3 conn rod had about 2 mm of freeplay inside the big end, shades of a VMax! But a different type of oil starvation.

The donor Hyabusa that surrendered its bottom end to the above bike. This guy wrecked his second Hyabusa in a month and is still in the hospital. He had more $ than bike handling skills. The first Hyabusa he wrecked was his first-ever bike.

 

[Fire-medic]

Back to the shop, some interesting stuff underway, and some bike-owner-caused maladies.

The candy color bike is a 'Bitsa.' Bits of this, bits of that. Call it a GSX-R1-VFR. The shop owner made this. It's an early 'Slingshot' framed GSXR 1100, 1127 cc, w/a VFR single-sided swingarm, using an R1 rear shock. Almost done.

The black bike is a first-gen Hyabusa, that now has hair on its chest (as-if it needed it!) It's received a serious make-over. The displacement is now a bit-above 1500 cc, 1 mm larger valves, Titanium valvetrain components, the lift on the camshafts is .440, which makes it difficult to assemble, I'm told. NOS, look behind the swingarm pivot. Tagged streetbike.

The Ghetto Turbo 650 V-twin was taken out for a high speed top-end run by its owner who ran it hard-enough, long enough to cook a piston. It's in for repair. He was instructed about how to run it, and that it wasn't suited to run continuously for WOT, advice he ignored, and is now facing a re-build to fix what was damaged. Live & learn.

 

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This shop you visit seems to have some very interesting things going on a regular basis.

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[rebeltaz83]

What year is that wing? I had a 78. Was my first bike. I put so much time into it. Sold it for $1,500. 48,000 miles. I did everything from head gaskets to timing belts, clutch, throttle cable, rebuilt carbs, electric fuel pump, paint, also repainted the vetter kit. Fairing, lower fairing, trunk, saddle bags. New tires, brakes, I'm forgetting allot of stuff. Points, lol. Lost my ass when I sold it. But I bought my gen 1 with that money so it's all good. I found two on CL 84s I think both bikes for $1,500. I would love to make a café racer with one. I wanted cams and carbs from a 75 though. The 75s made more power. And I was gonna use a 1200 engine. Carbs were bigger in 75. But they might have been bigger on the 1200, never really checked. Was just a dream before the v max.

 

[Fire-medic]

Yes, these guys who patronize the shop like fast bikes. The Hyabusa is a favorite. In another post I showed a GS1100E engine that was seriously modded & was now in a GS750 frame, heavily-modded, as a drag bike. It was ready to go yesterday, he was gonna start it for the second time, after a rebuild, but the 24 V batteries cart for the external 'stinger' starter were flat, and wouldn't crank the bike, which has a very high compression ratio. That one's going to be for sale, he calls it the "Learner Bike," as it has a relatively narrow 7" rear wheel, and would be a good place for someone to start to learn about purpose-built drag bikes, and how to ride them.

They have access to all-sorts of services, one of the guys they use for welding has a business servicing the marine industry, and he has a shop that can do almost anything in fabrication. He sets yachts up for being 'piggybacked' across the Atlantic Ocean in a huge vessel that can carry multiple yachts at a time. It's an ocean-going drydock yacht transporter, and this guy makes the cradles for the yachts, and fastens them in-place for the transatlantic trip. Some serious liability there.

Another guy is a composites specialist, and he works in carbon fiber, and can use a paint gun very well.

Any time I go in there, something fast (usually multiples of them) is/are being worked-upon. He also does restorations, he did a SOHC 750 Honda that was mildly modded, and just finished a near-900 cc SOHC Honda that has been owned by the same guy since the 1970's, who had some long-term issues he needed to have addressed. For what he spent on it, he could have bought a decent Hyabusa. However, we all are familiar with the irrational spending bike owners are willing to make, to get their bikes the way they want, or go broke trying.

 

[Traumahawk]

However, we all are familiar with the irrational spending bike owners are willing to make, to get their bikes the way they want, or go broke trying.

LOL....yep.

Looks like a very cool place to just go and visit and look around. Thank you for posting.

 

[Fire-medic]

OK, some-more eye-candy.

First is a GSXR 1100 with a Hyabusa engine shoehorned into it, which if you know about both of these bikes, shouldn't be able to be done. Well, here it is. It will wear GSXR 1100 bodywork, and is a streetbike. The Hyabusa engine is about 1298 cc stock but this is...bigger.

Those of you who look closely may see some interesting blue-anodized hardware aft of the engine block and cylinder head. That has a close relationship to the round bracket between the swingarm sides, and forward of the rear wheel. Anyone care to hazard a guess as to what goes-there?

This bike is...low. It's so-low, the rear suspension had to be reworked to allow it, and after raking the steering head, they're going to install raked triple trees to get it out farther, to provide clearance for the headers to the front tire. I think it's about 35 inches height to the top of the triple trees.

No the Hyabusa engine isn't stock, add about 200 cc, and all that goes with it. By the way, it's a streetbike.