dirties scooter gallery - recent acquisitions

Lately I have taken delivery of the following...

• GS seat - repro from australian scooter parts (vietnam)

• Correct wiring loom from Beedspeed (they sent me the wrong one)

• Malossi stickers (free by way of apology for sending wrong loom)

• Borrowed gl fork so I can duplicate the fittings and threads on the pk fork (thanks stu).

• 4 case gaskets (sick of having to buy a whole set just for one gasket)

• brake pedal . ebay from Perth. I had to grind the original off.

• cowl rubber

• levers

• house (yet to build a workshop there but when the landlord kicks me out of the factory, my projects will no longer have to suffer.

ALL THIS LEAVES JUST THE FOLLOWING TO ACQUIRE

• my mind's a blank so I'll get back to this one
• I know.. 2 wheels and tyres
• battery holder
• paint
• 
  

....AND THIS TO DO

• adapt the top of the pk fork
• get the paint matched
  
• prime and paint the headset
• fix the cowls as best as possible and prime and paint them
• fit the cables in and the wiring loom
• attatch a battery and regulator
• adapt the light switch to the plans from beedspeed for PX conversion.
• clean and test the fuel tank
• fit the seat
• 
  

Low carbs = low energy

I had a few beers after the dyno day, got home, logged on and ordered a new carby.
A 30mm keihin PWK clone from scootrs
Two reasons...
1) I need one sooner or later to match the needs of the kit and pipe
2) I want one

When the time comes to transplant into the GL frame, I will be losing autolube and starting to premix my 2-stroke oil. I am very dubious about the quality of my particular stock carby, so I thought what the hell, let's get it on. Jive talk aside, I want to get the engine setup as well as possible before the switch so I can focus on the inevitable electrical, braking and bodywork nightmares.

My ear can't tune it... but a DYNO MIGHT

I sort of gave up on dialling in the carb properly. I settled on a 130 main, stock everything else. and a slightly lean idle.
Last weekend I went along with some clubmates to a motorclycle mechanics to put their scooters on a dynomometer machine. This gave them a printed graph of the power their engines produce at different rev ranges.
In the end i did put my scooter up for one run. While I manage to achieve .2 hp more than Pauls pinasco packing PX, the usefulness of the HP at 800 rpm is only really going to benefit me when I am really showing off, or trying for 120+kmh.
Considering the engine is destined for a 'sleeper' '64 GL frame, I'd consider lowering the powerband somehow to increase torque and improve two up riding.
Having a figure put on your motor has an interesting psychological effect, causing me to go home and re-install my fancy tuned pipe (SIP performance). I had this on the stock motor, but it really was for unleashing high rev power so I put it aside until the malossi kit was broken in. 1000km in, and she's ready to go.

GOOD GOD WHAT A RUSH.
The pipe unleashed a monster. I rode home thinking 'there goes another bunch of torque..boo hoo' and got it up to where I would normally change gear. There was a change of tone, almost a crisp cracking sound, and the thing just took off like a bedford van MRT has just installed Nitreous oxide into while being locked in an enemy garage... I digress..
WOW not necessarily my goal to make the powerband stronger at 7500 rpm, but definitely a result. I just want to get back on the dyno. It is kind of like a weigh-in for fat folk on crash diets.

On the Dyno graph you will see a blue line (Paul's PInasco 225) and a red line (my malossi 210 - pre exhaust pipe).
Notice at the handy rev range of 4000-6000 he has about 1.6HP more.