22 more days before the June 27th & 28th meet !
Are you ready ?
What have you got left to do ?
The Firecracker's new motor is on the K-member and with a little help from Kurt Urban the boys managed to massage it to fit with our bellhousing and the motor and trans is in the car and wired up.
Luke, Seth and I hope to earn our "B Licences" this meet.
:-D
With motors on our minds, here are a few from the last meet ...
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No, I'm not ready with a capitol NOT!!! The 636 didn't like the rain from the last weekend. Most of the wiring is taken care of. The big issue was finding a large crack in the swingarm near the rear axle mount. Maybe that is why the bike was trying to jump out of line over the bumps at 3/4 mile. We still need to finish up the swingarm replacement, tank modifications and some work on the tail section. The 179.4 last meet isn't going to cut it for us. We are looking to see the 180's again. The work will get done and we are looking forward to seeing everyone there.
I should be there with somthing.
Bill
Hey Bill, I love your avatar ... awesome !!
:-D
Nancy and I plan to be there -- but whether to ride or not is another question. I got back from Marquette General Hospital about a half-hour ago -- from a quick double-hernia repair. These things are getting easier -- we left the house at about 5 this morning and here I am, six hours later, at the computer. But I don't think Doctor B. is thrilled about me riding in three weeks -- so I might just inspect and spectate and take the bikes back home to Skandia. After all -- we leave for Wendover on the 31st of July -- and that's not all that far away.
But yes, we intend to be in Lovely Laurinburg/Magnificent Maxton in three weeks.
Quote from: White Monster on June 05, 2009, 09:21:50 AM
Hey Bill, I love your avatar ... awesome !!
:-D
Thanks,
I need to up-date it to the 250 club, NAKED :-D
Bill
Quote from: Seldom Seen Slim on June 05, 2009, 09:22:32 AM
Nancy and I plan to be there -- but whether to ride or not is another question. I got back from Marquette General Hospital about a half-hour ago -- from a quick double-hernia repair. These things are getting easier -- we left the house at about 5 this morning and here I am, six hours later, at the computer. But I don't think Doctor B. is thrilled about me riding in three weeks -- so I might just inspect and spectate and take the bikes back home to Skandia. After all -- we leave for Wendover on the 31st of July -- and that's not all that far away.
But yes, we intend to be in Lovely Laurinburg/Magnificent Maxton in three weeks.
My plans are to be at Maxton in June, likewise. This will be the first time I've been at a June meet. Got to keep pushing toward that record. :-D
IIRC, we got cooked out there last June. I remember feeling sorry for the bike gang in those leathers halfway down the taxiway waiting out the lunch break. This year I will be joining them! Hope it is a bit cooler.
I'll be there. If riding it will be the Harley this time -YEAH! D liceanse maybe?
Cant do it . :cry:Still stuck with this house work . I got the bike ready and I am going drag racing just so I don't loose my mind . Well OK that was gone already But Gosh I miss seeing you guys . I will be there in spirit.
Eric :cheers:
I'll be there. The bikes not ready yet, but I do have a new camera to test drive :-D
RC,,, come by my pits with your new toy... I will open the hood for you !! LOL....
Let's hope for 100% dry, low humidity, 80 degrees with a 5 mph cool tail wind. We all deserve a weekend like that next for our June meet.
Charles
Quote from: Cajun Kid on June 05, 2009, 06:36:06 PM
RC,,, come by my pits with your new toy... I will open the hood for you !! LOL....
Charles
Will do Charles, I'd like to get some better shots of your car anyway :cheers:
But please...keep that hood closed :-o
Charles,
You live here in NC--low humidity in June?
I guess you folks in NC won't understand this:
This morning -- 6 June -- we had frost here in Skandia, Michigan. Not common, but not all that unusual. It's the third night this week that we had frost. The forecast for the next six days shows temps no higher than the mid-60s.
I betcha your air conditioning bills are higher than ours. Don't compare heating bills, though -- the furnace has run just about every day this week.
That frost must be he-ll on your orange groves.
(Didn't you guys invent frozen orange juice?)
Well, we don't grow oranges -- but I've planted tomatoes and zucchini twice so far this spring. The frost zapped the first batch of plants.
And yet -- day-before-yesterday Nancy and I went canoeing on the Whitefish River (about three miles from the house). Beautiful. I'll load the photos and show you in a couple of minutes.
But -- remember my mantra: 20 feet of snow and 20 below keeps out the riff-raff and keeps property values affordable.
Nancy was in the front of the canoe:
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I sat in the back:
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And I've gotta show ou this one of Michelle, Nancy's tattoo artist:
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Jon I see why you live waaaay up north.
terry
that sure looks like a boat to me and not a canoe.
Anyways what do you have to dotake a boat to her tattoo artist.?
Jon
Jon, it's a 17-foot canoe. Big enough for three or four, but plenty roomy for just the two of us. The river we were on is the Whitefish -- about three miles from the house. One of the little creeks that feeds into the Whitefish runs through the back our property -- although it isn't navigable nearer us. But -- we went to a garage sale to look at a kayak and a canoe -- and the guy sold us both for less than he had asked for the kayak only, so we're able to enjoy both quiet waters, like shown here, and we'll go riding the kayak on streams with a little more excitement, too.
As for Michelle -- well, what can I say but that she's quite an individual. But shes' a good artist, too, so wee just sit there and enjoy the "discussion" when she's working on either of us. Her husband is a chiropractor -- he's the weird one in the family.
Double hernia operation ??? You must have one sore groin ... I had single in January and I was up and around in a week ... I could have raced as long as I didnt carry anything ... Hope you are taking it easy for a week or so ... Joe
I hope to make it, although I just discovered 30-40% leakdown in 2 holes. Probably missing shifts is not good for my valvetrain.
Well, Joe -- this being my third hernia repair ('75 and '95 as wel as last Friday) -- they are getting easier every time. Not that I'm back to 100%, but when I went to the picnic yesterday and took part in the games -- I did okay in the anvil-tossing competition. I stayed with the lightweight ones, though. And manhole cover frisbee -- I'm never much good at that, so I used the hernia operation for my excuse.
I'll be at the end of June event -- not sure if I'll ride, though. I hope so -- a doctor visit tomorrow will give me some hints.
God luck Jon
terry
Good luck, Jon. Have they installed Velcro to expedite the process? Was this caused from climbing into an old Camaro thru the jungle gym? At least a possibility. Glad I have you sign that safety waiver.
Dan
I went to see good ol' doctor Kevorkian today for a five-day checkup. He says all's okay, that I should be careful when I ride the race bike in a couple of weeks, and that I've now got enough DuPont mesh inside me to qualify me as a partial-share owner of their stock.
So, Dan -- the Camaro going to be in running condition? Should I bring the -20 firesuit?
Jon, I had a hernia reduction in '86 and --well you must be a superman. Mine felt like my left testicle had been sewn to my knee for a week or two. Congrats on your recovery!
Ken, as I said earlier -- this is the third one for me. '76 or so, '95 or so, and now. They get dramatically easier all of the time. Not that I'm suggesting that you go out and hurt yourself so you can qualify to have the procedure done, but. . .
Maybe you should bring it along - at least so I can borrow it. For those of you who don't know Jon and I, you don't know how silly this is. Jon looks like a "l", I look like a "o" - lower case.
Serious answer - not sure yet. I'm dragging the car over to the welder guy in a few minutes to change the seat mounts and redo the belts so that they follow Joe T's suggestions. Then off to the dyno on Tuesday. So we'll see what happens. Someday I'd like to be as fast as you are in the car.
Dan
Quote from: Seldom Seen Slim on June 10, 2009, 04:54:45 PM
So, Dan -- the Camaro going to be in running condition? Should I bring the -20 firesuit?
Dan,, I have the answer to your need for speed sitting on my engine stand !!!!
See you in 2 weeks...
Charles
15 more days before the June meet !!
Jon, happy that you're healing well and may be able to race the bike.
We are thrashing on the Firecracker to finish the fabrication and it is up in the air if we will be ready or not.
How's your junk ?
What have you got left to do ?
15 days and all I have to do is bore, hone, deck, fit pistons to the chambers, assemble the engine, put it in the car, finish wiring it and dyno tune the injection. Should be no problem....Oh and I'm of to Vegas for 3 days this weekend and some lake trip next weekend. Guess I just won't sleep nights...
That's the spirit, sleep after the race. :cheers:
Charles is breakin' my heart. He has the perfect "E" motor sitting on a stand and it's financially out of my reach (and it's VERY fairly priced). DAMN. It would be PERFECT and might get me in the 2 Club with tweaking. Oh, well. I'll limp along with my inline.
Dan
Alrighty then. I changed my sprockets and put in some clutch springs all by myself! Even think I got the rear wheel aligned decently using some string method I read about. Stupid bracket with the alignment line moves back and forth so cant just go by ling that up. I chickened out of changing the indent spring in the tranny though and will save that for the next shop visit. Not a big deal since the only shifts I missed were when trying the clutchless method. Oh yeah, almost forgot that I picked up a fog shield just in case...
Well, got carried away last night with the 'Busa. Trying to track down my "tap" from the top end, thought it was the cam tensioner and to check the cam timing. Pulled the engine, it wasn't the cam tensioner making the noise, nor the cam buckets. Then I pulled the head, no sign of piston contact (tight quench) ... then I pulled the block split the case, no signs of nothing but a clean engine.
Then I realized that if I am going to race in June, I load the bike up in 8 days ... the engine is on the table in 1000 parts, now. Oops!
Hey Ransom, take your time putting it all back together! Jon got the ok to race this meet and he & the bike are rip rarin to go! :-P
:evil:
:-D
Debbie
(ready for a rematch?) :mrgreen:
Quote from: DahMurf on June 17, 2009, 02:06:21 PM
Hey Ransom, take your time putting it all back together! Jon got the ok to race this meet and he & the bike are rip rarin to go! :-P
:evil:
:-D
Debbie
(ready for a rematch?) :mrgreen:
That I am doing, taking my time putting it back together .... 8-)
Jon won't have a chance this time .. I been practicing my wheelies, but good. :wink:
On a more serious note: If I do get the 'Busa back together, I won't be rolling in until early Saturday morning. I have to work on Friday.
OK got the engine together and it is sitting in the car now! Just have to wire the fuel injection, figure out a different crank trigger, figure out some kind of alternator since the factory one wont work with the setup, wire up some nitrous solenoids, dyno tune the thing and load it up in a few days...
Quote from: RansomT on June 19, 2009, 05:39:31 AM
Quote from: DahMurf on June 17, 2009, 02:06:21 PM
Hey Ransom, take your time putting it all back together! Jon got the ok to race this meet and he & the bike are rip rarin to go! :-P
:evil:
:-D
Debbie
(ready for a rematch?) :mrgreen:
That I am doing, taking my time putting it back together .... 8-)
Jon won't have a chance this time .. I been practicing my wheelies, but good. :wink:
On a more serious note: If I do get the 'Busa back together, I won't be rolling in until early Saturday morning. I have to work on Friday.
We'll be waiting for you and this time I plan to have plenty of pictures of the battle! :evil: Bike is ready to roll and I'll be finishing it off with the high speed wax tonight! :evil:
Ready to get your wheelie on? :-D
Debbie
PS: Swing by our trailer if you need any help buttoning things up. ;) It's a lot more fun with the two of you playing! hehehe
Quote from: DahMurf on June 23, 2009, 09:51:15 AM
Quote from: RansomT on June 19, 2009, 05:39:31 AM
Quote from: DahMurf on June 17, 2009, 02:06:21 PM
Hey Ransom, take your time putting it all back together! Jon got the ok to race this meet and he & the bike are rip rarin to go! :-P
:evil:
:-D
Debbie
(ready for a rematch?) :mrgreen:
That I am doing, taking my time putting it back together .... 8-)
Jon won't have a chance this time .. I been practicing my wheelies, but good. :wink:
On a more serious note: If I do get the 'Busa back together, I won't be rolling in until early Saturday morning. I have to work on Friday.
We'll be waiting for you and this time I plan to have plenty of pictures of the battle! :evil: Bike is ready to roll and I'll be finishing it off with the high speed wax tonight! :evil:
Ready to get your wheelie on? :-D
Debbie
PS: Swing by our trailer if you need any help buttoning things up. ;) It's a lot more fun with the two of you playing! hehehe
Darn! :-( Got the bike together late Monday night and put it on the dyno last night; I've got some major issues to work out and it looks like I won't have everything ready for the event. My "real job" is sending me to a meeting in Nashville on Thursday and I have to leave tonight... I was hoping to have the 'Busa tuned and loaded in the trailer by now, but it didn't happen.
Nancy and I are southbound right now -- about 9.20 Wednesday morning, and we're two hours south of the Mackinac Bridge. It's another hot day -- nearly 80F already. And -- we forgoto to bring an umbrella with us -- so I could shade Nancy from the hot sun. Oh, the trauma of it all.
We'll be at the Pine Acres by tomorrow night. Sure hope to see one and all this weekend, even if it is through a gloss of sunscreen.
Ransom, if you're bored in Nashville thursday night you're welcome to come on over and help get this pig together!
Been working til 10 every night trying to get it together (which sucks since the shop is 95 degrees and I've been at it since 7:30 in the morn). Every time I cross something off the list I add two more things. Ran the fuel system last night and found a bunch of leaks. Fixed most of those. Got to finish the remaining wiring tonight and hope to fire it. If not, then we get it running Thurs, dyno tune Friday morning and load it up. At least I didn't wait til the last minute...
Quote from: RansomT on June 24, 2009, 05:16:55 AM
Darn! :-( Got the bike together late Monday night and put it on the dyno last night; I've got some major issues to work out and it looks like I won't have everything ready for the event. My "real job" is sending me to a meeting in Nashville on Thursday and I have to leave tonight... I was hoping to have the 'Busa tuned and loaded in the trailer by now, but it didn't happen.
Well throw it all in the trailer & bring what ya got darlin! We're not going to fine-tune it for you to make it go faster ( :evil: ) but we will most definitely help you get it in safe running order so you can race! You know how it is, we want you out there even if you do go faster then us!
(NOT!) :-D
Debbie
PS: What's the current gremlin in case we can pack something to help you out.
Jon you're funny! You know we have an extra umbrella for you but I find it hard to believe that we'll find Nancy, the sun goddess, under an umbrella!
See ya soon! Hope you're ready to fly on the wheelie machine! :cheers:
Debbie
Got the bike loaded on the truck about an hour ago. Coming down by myself. Crew of one. Leaving Long Island at about 1000. Should be in Laurinburg by 2100 hours. I have a couple of audio books for the ride. Looking forward to the fellowship of land speed savants.
Joe
Well, thanks, Deb. I figgered you'd have a bumbershoot to keep the sun off me while I'm in staging -- but one of the two umbrellas we've got at the house is one that Wayne Pollack lent to us last October -- and this is now the third meet in a row that I've forgot to put it in the truck. I was trying to sorta hide the fact that I've been forgetting his umbrella. Ah, dang -- maybe we'll remember to take it to Bville and at least his brolly will have been there.
We're in Descending Testicle, West Virginia tonight -- should be to Pine Acres in time for supper tomorrow night. See you soon.
Joe -- we're listening to a James Patterson book now -- have a John Grisham for the ride home. Whatcha got in your vehicle?
SSS ... Recnetly finished and I will bring:
"For Liberty and Glory, Washington, Lafayette and their Revolutions"
"Andrew Jackson"
"Union 1812"
You are welcome to them for your return trip ...
Don't worry Joe, you got crew this weekend :-D
Head'n for Sleepy Bear Campground in Lumberton now! See you all at the track tomorrow!
Descending Testicle? Is that where tke balls drop on New Years?
Yeah, that's the place. It's right near Pudenda, Tennessee. See you tomorrow.
Right after Intercourse, PA?
(That's Pennsylvania, not my father.)
Intercourse is right down the road from me; the next town over is Bird in Hand :roll: Mark and Steve are leaving early AM and driving straight through. Mark will be racing "under pressure" this meet, but he can handle it. :-D
Under pressure of what, Larry? Or do we have to wait 'til we see the fellows and ask them?
It's a hot evening at the Pine Acres -- Nancy and I are going to sit out under the awning and read our bedtime stories before retiring to the air conditioned room. No air conditioning at our house -- not needed up there. Sure is donw here. I expect it'll be hotter than blue hades at the track this weekend. Last time I checked the weather it forecast 94 Friday, 96 Saturday, and 98 Sunday. Good thing we brought lots of sport drink and a few dozen neck coolers. We'll have them soaking in the ice chest -- so they'll be ready for instant use after purchase.
Best wishes to Steve and Mark. They're always such an interesting pair to watch...
I think what Larry's saying is it's a good meet to not run NA and (at least for Mark) he's bringing his own atmosphere with him(IE... an intake valve cooling fan of sorts).
We had some last minute "stuff"(read as non related race work) get in the way of packing, etc(THEY KNEW WE WERE GOING' RACIN' DAMMIT), and got out quite a few hours later then planned. So after a standstill traffic jamb 13 miles from our place on I95 we decided it would be good to just make it south of Richmond and within sight of the NC border before 2am(here we are, backup mission accomplished). So we've stopped for the night and will stake our airfield plot somewhere in the early afternoon with 3.5 bikes in tow (2 ready and one that may be ready for a pre "Mega Mile" test this weekend).
JW, get some sleep(that means let Nancy get some sleep!) and stay hydrated... we need you ready to get small and put your hernia doc's wrenching to the test first thing Saturday morning. Your ready for easy up 3rd gear wheelies (and you've got more gear then you had before). ;-)
If with the pisspoor weather we run the same as (or more then) the past, then we're on the right path for SW'09 time in Dan's neighborhood.
Can't wait to see everyone as always... still living vicarously thru Deb's versions and variations of what's being written on here,
Todd
Quote from: DahMurf on June 24, 2009, 06:24:51 AM
Quote from: RansomT on June 24, 2009, 05:16:55 AM
Darn! :-( Got the bike together late Monday night and put it on the dyno last night; I've got some major issues to work out and it looks like I won't have everything ready for the event. My "real job" is sending me to a meeting in Nashville on Thursday and I have to leave tonight... I was hoping to have the 'Busa tuned and loaded in the trailer by now, but it didn't happen.
Well throw it all in the trailer & bring what ya got darlin! We're not going to fine-tune it for you to make it go faster ( :evil: ) but we will most definitely help you get it in safe running order so you can race! You know how it is, we want you out there even if you do go faster then us!
(NOT!)
:-D
Debbie
PS: What's the current gremlin in case we can pack something to help you out.
I appreciate the offer, but some of the issues (gremlins) are somewhere deep in the head and I am afraid that I will run out of luck this time if I race.
Pulling out at 9:30 this morning should be there by 5 P.M.
See Ya!!
We are doing the midnight drive. Leaving around 12:30. See you all in the morning.
Three quick rain showers today, about three dozen bikes and about 25 cars. We look forward to lots of runs in the next two days -- because of the low turnout.
See you all tomorrow morning.
Success to all the entries. Be safe and have FUN!! :cheers: (only after you run)