desertrefugee » Sat Feb 29, 2020 8:13 am[/url]":76zlbrrt]
I can’t think of another motorcycle that compares to this thing. There’s something just visceral about it. A Vmax with an open Kerker is a sound straight from heaven. My last 94 had one, but they are pricey and I have no intention of splashing cash roughly equal to what I have invested in the whole motorcycle just for an exhaust.
As noted, this is my third Vmax. It needs a bit more than I expected being a one owner bike, but I am taking my time and have been enjoying going through this thing. Been doing a lot of detail work, but I’ve also run into a couple of snags. As for the detail, here’s the same view as above, but after a fair amount of love shown:
That’s the story pretty much everywhere. But the carburetors held a little nasty surprise for me. One of the idle mixture screws was bottomed out and jammed in the hole. I delicately tried extracting it, but ruined the slot in the screw. I went a step further and tried to extract it by drilling and an easy out, but it quickly became apparent that I was going to ruin the carb body if I went any further. A man’s got to know his limits.
A friend referred me to a company here locally that uses a process called EDM or electrical discharge machining, to burrow a small hole in the offending bit and then pull it out that way. Almost guaranteed and zero damage to the threads. They got their start this way, but have branched out into aerospace and lots of other pursuits. Quite the facility with lots of capital equipment investment. So my carbs are visiting there for a couple of days.
Interesting place:
https://www.micro-tronics.com/
