I just need something more organized than my poverty plastic tool boxes for my hammers and allen keys. A work bench would be ideal really.[user not found] wrote: ↑Fri Dec 22, 2017 9:21 amYeah, these are made out of 100% steel, no plastic to be found aside from the bottoms of the feet.
There are other metal/plastic and plastic hybrids that are quite a bit easier to move around.
Love these cabinets doe. Wouldn't buy anything else.
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Ordered a grom Wideband.
Once its set up it time to go on the stock bore, head and high compression here we come.
Once its set up it time to go on the stock bore, head and high compression here we come.
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4V head?Big Brain Bradley wrote: ↑Tue Jan 09, 2018 11:30 am Ordered a grom Wideband.
Once its set up it time to go on the stock bore, head and high compression here we come.
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naw, not ready to risk revving its nuts off yet and loosing the low end, the cheaper big valve 2v head.4zilch wrote: ↑Tue Jan 09, 2018 11:54 am4V head?Big Brain Bradley wrote: ↑Tue Jan 09, 2018 11:30 am Ordered a grom Wideband.
Once its set up it time to go on the stock bore, head and high compression here we come.
Might do just the head and then the piston. We shall see.
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Your cam gainz should be better with more flow from the head, might as well do the piston and take advantage of all the things.Big Brain Bradley wrote: ↑Tue Jan 09, 2018 12:30 pmnaw, not ready to risk revving its nuts off yet and loosing the low end, the cheaper big valve 2v head.
Might do just the head and then the piston. We shall see.
Is anyone doing an oversized (big bore) piston? Everything I remember seeing was a kit where you had to buy the jug and piston.
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yea, they do make higher compression piston for overbores'.4zilch wrote: ↑Tue Jan 09, 2018 12:53 pmYour cam gainz should be better with more flow from the head, might as well do the piston and take advantage of all the things.Big Brain Bradley wrote: ↑Tue Jan 09, 2018 12:30 pm
naw, not ready to risk revving its nuts off yet and loosing the low end, the cheaper big valve 2v head.
Might do just the head and then the piston. We shall see.
Is anyone doing an oversized (big bore) piston? Everything I remember seeing was a kit where you had to buy the jug and piston.
But they are typically matched to the bore.
Im staying stoke bore for now I think
lets see what ye olde troy wants to do
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Big Brain Bradley wrote: ↑Tue Jan 09, 2018 12:56 pmyea, they do make higher compression piston for overbores'.
But they are typically matched to the bore.
Im staying stoke bore for now I think
I find it odd that they don't sell an overbore pistons for people that have a local machine shop do the bore.
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yes.
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not a lot of there from what I understand.4zilch wrote: ↑Tue Jan 09, 2018 1:02 pmBig Brain Bradley wrote: ↑Tue Jan 09, 2018 12:56 pm
yea, they do make higher compression piston for overbores'.
But they are typically matched to the bore.
Im staying stoke bore for now I think
I find it odd that they don't sell an overbore pistons for people that have a local machine shop do the bore.
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Yea its neat. I've got to get it up to minibike power at least, right?
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Like 7, maybe 8 hp?Big Brain Bradley wrote: ↑Tue Jan 09, 2018 1:13 pmYea its neat. I've got to get it up to minibike power at least, right?
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Also sounds not too dissimmilar from Type 1 Beetle (or old air cooled Porsche or Corvair) hot rodding in that heads, pistons, and cylinders can all be swapped onto a stock block and con rods for immediate displacement bump.
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my mini bike has 14hp at least.Apex wrote: ↑Tue Jan 09, 2018 1:15 pmLike 7, maybe 8 hp?Big Brain Bradley wrote: ↑Tue Jan 09, 2018 1:13 pm
Yea its neat. I've got to get it up to minibike power at least, right?
250cc honda clone, 0.10 rod, billet piston, cam, valve springs, billet flywheel, bumped timing, carb, exhaust. 6.5hp stock.
Grom is ~7-8 stock. I should have mods for 10-11 at least. Lets see where i sit after the wideband puts a real T00N on the thing. More Compression, 93, and more flow from the head should should put me in the 12-14 hood.
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That sounds like a riot on something so tiny.Big Brain Bradley wrote: ↑Tue Jan 09, 2018 1:40 pmmy mini bike has 14hp at least.
250cc honda clone, 0.10 rod, billet piston, cam, valve springs, billet flywheel, bumped timing, carb, exhaust. 6.5hp stock.
Grom is ~7-8 stock. I should have mods for 10-11 at least. Lets see where i sit after the wideband puts a real T00N on the thing. More Compression, 93, and more flow from the head should should put me in the 12-14 hood.
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looks like most people don't do a piston with the head.4zilch wrote: ↑Tue Jan 09, 2018 1:02 pmBig Brain Bradley wrote: ↑Tue Jan 09, 2018 12:56 pm
yea, they do make higher compression piston for overbores'.
But they are typically matched to the bore.
Im staying stoke bore for now I think
I find it odd that they don't sell an overbore pistons for people that have a local machine shop do the bore.
If the WB2 does not get me that little bit more to get to 60 and hold it, I might just the upgrade by buying take-off 125 cylinder/piston and decking the jug 10-20 thou.
too many bad stories of guys with BBK's eating themselves, and I run the thing pretty effin hard.
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It would be interesting to see some of the tear downs of the failures and figure out why this is. Unfortunately I don’t think there’s enough legit tuners/builders/engineers building and blowing these things up to figure out and address the weaknesses.Big Brain Bradley wrote: ↑Tue Jan 09, 2018 2:44 pmlooks like most people don't do a piston with the head.
If the WB2 does not get me that little bit more to get to 60 and hold it, I might just the upgrade by buying take-off 125 cylinder/piston and decking the jug 10-20 thou.
too many bad stories of guys with BBK's eating themselves, and I run the thing pretty effin hard.
It’s mostly ZOMGZ!!! BUY THIS BBK AND MAKE 25Hp!!!!
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Yea, so thats the other thing, you got every fucking yahoo on a 181 BBK out there running mickeymouse tuning solutions like finblow ecu with different injector/fuel line sizes. Or electronic jet kits. or nothing.4zilch wrote: ↑Tue Jan 09, 2018 2:56 pmIt would be interesting to see some of the tear downs of the failures and figure out why this is. Unfortunately I don’t think there’s enough legit tuners/builders/engineers building and blowing these things up to figure out and address the weaknesses.Big Brain Bradley wrote: ↑Tue Jan 09, 2018 2:44 pm
looks like most people don't do a piston with the head.
If the WB2 does not get me that little bit more to get to 60 and hold it, I might just the upgrade by buying take-off 125 cylinder/piston and decking the jug 10-20 thou.
too many bad stories of guys with BBK's eating themselves, and I run the thing pretty effin hard.
It’s mostly ZOMGZ!!! BUY THIS BBK AND MAKE 25Hp!!!!
Knowing what I know about engines, you NEED legit wideband with those kind of mods. Even then you prob cant hear the engine knocking and are going in rule of thumb a/f ratios for load and bore/stroke ratios.
But hey, they are keeping stock parts cheap. After this step of the wideband/ autoune the next thing is to bump compression and add 93. That's literally free power via efficiency bump. Then we will feed her more air via head work. Then we might raise that rev limiter. Cant be spinning those BBK's to 13k.
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Ideally a proper standalone, programmable, ecu (or a hacked stock ecu w/ O2 delete) and a proper dyno tune would be the way to go.Big Brain Bradley wrote: ↑Tue Jan 09, 2018 3:10 pmYea, so thats the other thing, you got every fucking yahoo on a 181 BBK out there running mickeymouse tuning solutions like finblow ecu with different injector/fuel line sizes. Or electronic jet kits. or nothing.4zilch wrote: ↑Tue Jan 09, 2018 2:56 pm
It would be interesting to see some of the tear downs of the failures and figure out why this is. Unfortunately I don’t think there’s enough legit tuners/builders/engineers building and blowing these things up to figure out and address the weaknesses.
It’s mostly ZOMGZ!!! BUY THIS BBK AND MAKE 25Hp!!!!
Knowing what I know about engines, you NEED legit wideband with those kind of mods. Even then you prob cant hear the engine knocking and are going in rule of thumb a/f ratios for load and bore/stroke ratios.
But hey, they are keeping stock parts cheap. After this step of the wideband/ autoune the next thing is to bump compression and add 93. That's literally free power via efficiency bump. Then we will feed her more air via head work. Then we might raise that rev limiter. Cant be spinning those BBK's to 13k.
...Or just buy a #bigassdirtbike with a carburetor
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4zilch wrote: ↑Tue Jan 09, 2018 3:23 pmIdeally a proper standalone, programmable, ecu (or a hacked stock ecu w/ O2 delete) and a proper dyno tune would be the way to go.Big Brain Bradley wrote: ↑Tue Jan 09, 2018 3:10 pm
Yea, so thats the other thing, you got every fucking yahoo on a 181 BBK out there running mickeymouse tuning solutions like finblow ecu with different injector/fuel line sizes. Or electronic jet kits. or nothing.
Knowing what I know about engines, you NEED legit wideband with those kind of mods. Even then you prob cant hear the engine knocking and are going in rule of thumb a/f ratios for load and bore/stroke ratios.
But hey, they are keeping stock parts cheap. After this step of the wideband/ autoune the next thing is to bump compression and add 93. That's literally free power via efficiency bump. Then we will feed her more air via head work. Then we might raise that rev limiter. Cant be spinning those BBK's to 13k.
...Or just buy a #bigassdirtbike with a carburetor
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