I'll do a quick introduction since this is my first post. I feel like Axl Rose getting off the bus in Welcome to the Jungle, green as can be. I'm going to need y'alls help and experience to make this project a reality. I thought my decent wrenching skills would translate to an easy build, but I've been stalking the forum a little while now and realize building a racer and street bike are two very different animals. There's not much engineering involved in putting a stock bike back together.
Ok, real quick. Knew nothing about cars, grew up in a house full of women. Inherited this truck years after my dad passed and the first wrench I ever turned was rebuilding that 396, often below freezing in a tin can of a shop. Shocked me and everyone I knew that I was pretty decent at it and picked up a CB550 to wrench on at home. Rebuilt it completely and rode it cross country, twice. Lived in a tent all over the south west. The salt flats were my mecca and when I hit them I was hooked.
Picked up a second bike to build to go race. Built a few more and sold them to pay for the race bike.
The hotrod:
Cross country (been to a TON of national parks!):
(CC BLOG)
http://kerncountykid.blogspot.com/Salt Flats:
Salt bike:
Bikes I've built to pay the bills/fund Salt project:
other bikes....
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cannonball-Reds-Cycle/103884469646088Parts I've picked up for salt bike, Kimtabs & straight through Yoshi repro pipe
Shop I'll be working out of. Back room of the house, girlfriend is very understanding
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Soooooo anyways, please check back often as I will be picking y'alls brains every day until I leave for the salt, hopefully in time for the BUB. I'll throw a few out now...
I can't bore up too much, 590cc's is what I'm looking at and compression even with the bigger bore stays about the same, 9:1 I think. Am I just trying to flow as much air through this motor as possible? I can shoehorn 750 carbs w/ stacks on, a CB650 cam for a bump in lift/duration, and do an aggressive port/polish with 1mm over intake's. With high compression pistons not being available should I consider other means of raising the compression ratio, ie custom gasket/decked head?
Talk to me like a total newb, because I am one. If opinions are like buttholes; everyone has one, well then I want to hear your buttholes