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Been chipping away at becoming homeless buying performance parts and setting up the 127". Purchased the Dragula 2-1 exhaust with 3" baffle, just purchased Rivera Pro Clutch with VPP, Sachs is starting on my heads this week and boring the Ultima R1 with Thunderjet. Have a S&S teardrop air filter system although I stare at the stock 80" round cover alot
Went ahead and purchased pistons and having the cylinders bored to perfect clearance and will set the ring gap, not going to second guess myself, will touch every part with inspection as this engine will be a biaatch to take apart in the frame. Motor is painted wrinkle black, need to paint the cylinders when I get them back and leaving the heads natural, will match my current engine and engine switch will be under cover.
Going to replace the faded chrome inner primary cover, taking my gearing back taller to not overwork the bigger engine with another trans pulley and allow 6th gear to be a true overdrive that will let the big engine work in lower ranges, currently set up with a 30 trans sprocket and 3.37 primary gearing, the bigger rotating mass will be worked to death and say wheelie prone Will start posting pics when everything starts coming together.
Last edited by 1997bagger; Jan 26, 2019 at 11:57 PM.
Just an opinion: if you're going this far as to strip it to the inner primary, I'd look long and hard @ a chain conversion.
not saying the belt won't take it, but it won't take it fast, for long
my whole conversion was right around $400, (~ $100 for the baker front offset sprocket, 1/2" IIRC, $75 for PBI flat rear and Vulcan 5/8" spacer, and $200ish for the EK ZZZ 530 x-ring.
i've beaten that setup to death more times than I can count, and she's still kicking (although I seem to kill a rear sprocket in ~ 9-10k miles)
Oh goodness, you ain't lying. Where the heck is the other one, John Mia?!?! He's another one that buys a brand new crate engine then opens her on up...
I guess I'm just jealous.......
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