Congrats Fred!
Couple other pics to add:
TFA Dinner at Chinese Buffet
Good looking Maxton Couple
Got Busa in the 2 club
MadMike from Iowa in the 2 club
Karl "Entropy" Fastest N/A at the meet and fastest N/A ZX-12 at the Texas Mile 208mph
A story that makes Legends:
We had one hell of a weekend at the Texas Mile, GREAT folks (as always), UBER GREAT weather, ummm "moderately" great food (Chinese buffet in Beeville), not so great hotel (America's Inn in Beeville).
My story:
I got to the Mile with a motor which was tested tested several times on the dyno, and had a banner leakdown before bringing it to Goliad.
First pass on Fri it died and coasted to the 3/4mi marker at 9:30am WTF?
When I got back to the pits Dane showed up with some Abita beer which I needed GREATLY, thax man!!
At 10:30 Doug Meyer & I left the track, headed back to Houston to see what we could do in my garage to revive it.
At 2pm we arrived and rolled it on the lift, yanked the motor and saw the most spectacular rod bearing damage I have ever seen; the pan was full of black crinkly things, no gold here.
One rod had kicked off it's cap, knocked a cute lil hole in the cases & window in the cyl block. All rod big ends were black, mains in much better shape.
cases, rods, crank, block = junk ( Osti & Mike know exactly what bushes they will end up at) Luckily head was fine, Doug tested it
sooooo... while Doug did the forensics, i started rooting in my retired parts, normal wear parts, shop supplies collection.
found:
- offset stroker crank semi-retired with chunks outa the starter gear
- rods retired as being suspects in pistons tagging the head (prob innocent)
- 87mm pistons retired with deformed skirts, .0032-.0035 piston to cyl clearance
- cases retired as suspected of being warped
- 87mm offset cyl block with scratches from ingesting sand (was gonna send it to Millennium "someday")
- new sets of rod & main bearings, cam chain, headgasket
Doug transferred trans, shifter stuff, oil stuff, all that stuff from the trashed cases to the replacement, i prepped the new guts.
At 2am we fired it up, loaded bike and tools, quick snooze, headed out for the track at 4:50am.
Arrived back at the track at 8am, did 1st leakdown, put bike on the grid. Then Osti discovered it was leaking coolant "Water". Doug said "Barr's Leak"!!!! stat!!!!
Emergency call to #1 Son and wife still in Beeville, and 45min later the leak was gone.
Pass # 1 - wouldn't button shift; fiddled with stuff
Pass # 2 - wouldn't button shift, still got a 199.5
Doug fiddled with the Muzzy shifter, pronounced pressure regulator faulty
Osti pulled the one off his bike YAY RYAN!!!!
Pass #3 - 208.740mph WOO_HOOOOOOOOOOOO
Doug took it next and got 208.793mph
Thus Doug has made the fastest pass on a N/A Kawasaki at Texas that I know of, beat me with my own bike
I gotta say i absolutely could not have done it without Doug Meyer.
He is a fukken garage animal, works non stop, knows where everything goes, checks everything twice.
A true soft spoken gentleman, motor guru, Kawasaki expert sans pareil (sp?)
This was a VERY special weekend for me!
Karl "Entropy"
Bill "WildBro" Fastest Turbo bike at meet and new bike track record. The sign says it all!
