I'm waiting until someone posts some pics for an update.
Pics or it didn't happen, I know!
TG, the BM was built by a guy in the VRRA and I asked Gunther for some pictures of it as well. He's a cool guy and the bike is very trick, chain drive. What I remarked most was how compliant the suspension is, makes my old Honda stuff look like the poster child for stiction.
Tyler felt he spent money and went backwards, man was he grumpy. We all know how it goes...it is not that any of the work done isn't correct, it's because we ran out of time to do a track day and bring it all together. Plus we set lobe centers to 102/106 as Megacycle suggested, Mike & Rick both said no-no-no 100 degrees for both in & ex. We decided to wait until after this race to re adjust the valves then set the cams up again. 100 degree LC's should actually help tone down the "nitrous like" spike in power delivery when the cams come on.
That plus the flat slides made it hard to ride. On the dyno there was a very rich dip for about 2500 rpm that cleaned up at about 11K rpm.....sometimes.... We thought rolling the throttle on wouldn't exasperate that part throttle area but it did. It bobbled away, and if it cleared the power came in a rush. I suppose 100+mph air flow had another effect. It was awesome on the dyno, miserable on the track. We chased needle position, didn't have other needles to try, in the end put the stock CV's on for rainy Sunday and it was a little easier to ride.
Another problem that had previously showed itself was clutch slip. Last year in the first couple laps it might slip some but once heated disappeared. On the weekend it got progressively worse. Discs & plates
were good, I think a notched clutch basket is the problem but we couldn't find a good one. Will address that next plus TimV stepped up & is supplying another one that looks quite good.
Teething issues, it'll get there. We need a track day or a quiet piece of road and some time to get those FCR's dialed in once the cams & clutch issues are resolved.
