Now it's looking like a top end : )
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Now it's looking like a top end : )
Just got this back from Eric of Sundial.... I've been measuring it up for a couple nights now, comparing it with some stock 72 cylinders, and several porting diagrams I've got ahold of, and I'm very very happy with it.
Planed and cleaned up head, copper headgasket (from Suzukidave if I remember correctly), pistons with the intake skirt trimmed, intakes cut angled to allow for some big mikunis, cylinders planed on the top / cleaned up on the bottom / ported intake/transfers/exhaust, two base gaskets with a base gasket spacer.
I should have it together and on a dyno this spring, I'm hoping for 80 at the rear tire, and think I have a pretty good shot at it with these (and a few other bits and bobbles of course)
Thanks Eric! Arne
Planed and cleaned up head, copper headgasket (from Suzukidave if I remember correctly), pistons with the intake skirt trimmed, intakes cut angled to allow for some big mikunis, cylinders planed on the top / cleaned up on the bottom / ported intake/transfers/exhaust, two base gaskets with a base gasket spacer.
I should have it together and on a dyno this spring, I'm hoping for 80 at the rear tire, and think I have a pretty good shot at it with these (and a few other bits and bobbles of course)
Thanks Eric! Arne
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Yep, it's the silver one. Appears to be cut out on a CNC table of some kind, not sure what kind though. Eric has a fabricator that makes them, if you pm him he'd have the info (I don't seem to have the phone numbers or part numbers anymore)2STROKECAFE wrote:Wow Arne, looks great! Can't wait to hear how it runs when it is all together. How is the base spacer fabricated. Is it the "silver" colored gasket on the table?
Take care,
Bryan
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That looks good Arne. We are eagerly awaiting the dyno charts to see how strong it is.
Don't forget to carefully match the copper gasket to the bores. Suzuki were not too good about holding tolerances back in the day and it is usually necessary to adjust the sleeve nut holes to get a copper gasket to fit.
Don't forget to carefully match the copper gasket to the bores. Suzuki were not too good about holding tolerances back in the day and it is usually necessary to adjust the sleeve nut holes to get a copper gasket to fit.
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Yep, I've already spotted several locations.tz375 wrote:That looks good Arne. We are eagerly awaiting the dyno charts to see how strong it is.
Don't forget to carefully match the copper gasket to the bores. Suzuki were not too good about holding tolerances back in the day and it is usually necessary to adjust the sleeve nut holes to get a copper gasket to fit.
I imagine I can hold +0, - 0.5mm on the round around the bores using a hand die grinder (with the 0 going into the cylinder) - is this a tight enough tolerance for the head gasket?
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Cometic Gaskets makes the spacer plate and the base gaskets (metal with a rubberized material covering. They can make the spacer to several different thicknesses.
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I'm intrigued to see people still using spacers. Unless it's for a race bike, there's enough metal in the exhaust ports and the transfers don't need to be raised unless you really need a lot more time area.
All the numbers I run seem to suggest that the transfers only need to be raised 1.5-2.0mm and a good porter can do that.
What am I missing?
All the numbers I run seem to suggest that the transfers only need to be raised 1.5-2.0mm and a good porter can do that.
What am I missing?
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I assume it's a means to an end. A base gasket is fairly inexpensive whereas a porter's time cutting is fairly expensive.tz375 wrote:I'm intrigued to see people still using spacers. Unless it's for a race bike, there's enough metal in the exhaust ports and the transfers don't need to be raised unless you really need a lot more time area.
All the numbers I run seem to suggest that the transfers only need to be raised 1.5-2.0mm and a good porter can do that.
What am I missing?
If the exhaust, transfers, and intakes all need to be raised a bit then a spacer below makes sense.
But it all really comes down to what it puts out, and we'll find that out in a few months!
(plus I think the base spacer is cool)
Thanks - Arne
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Nope, that looks pretty much stockSuzukidave wrote:I wonder if this 72 block has the different from other years transfer timing that i found out when cutting mine up for the reed intakes ?
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I've got a set of 72 stock blocks and could do a dimensioned rubbing of those.Suzukidave wrote:Arne , could you do a rubbing of your porting with the numbers and post it ?
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