This old thread you probably mean, but yes, if you subscribed to the thread with one click or posted in the thread and configured your SOHC4 forums profile to email you for all threads you comment on, then people are still seeing any updates to threads that went zombie mode due to lack of posts.
I have one of those K&N unipods I bought this last summer. I wonder if you can fit it inside the air box as well, I think you might but maybe not. Rainy weather often can affect tuned bikes running individual carb pods adversely if riding in bad weather.
Personally I'm all the gear kinda rider and I've ridden in light rain, don't wanna do monsoon gully washer flash flood rains we get in the summer, there riding in the rain and then there is stupid, I've ridden years ago in a monsoon storm.only traveling a mile through it and I was soaked and freezing cold and riding through 4 to 6 inch deep water abd it was not even the worst monsoon downpour I've witnessed. Sometimes a weather radar app or webpage from the computer with Doppler radar can tell you if you are needing to wait or if you gotta go early to beat a storm, monsoon rains storms here in the desert SW are so unpredictable sometimes you flip the coin and win, often you lose.
Sorry the owner of the bike between Scott and you didn't take better care of it...
Exhaust would benefit from a glass bead or sand blasting if it is bad enough, and then a black jet hot ceramic coat, flat black exhaust pain has to be touched up often to stay looking good avd won't tolerate outdoor storage like that bike was subjected to... The header pipes merely burned off the paint and then rusted...
That is a Kerker exhaust muffler, right?
I have forgotten all Scott did on the bike and Photo_ucket has been jerks on images for years and years now...
Apparently Scott still has the account with them as they haven't deleted the images or the forum software has retained an image with the nasty banner watermark obscuring all the photos you shared.
Given you rebuilt the motor it has been abused or misused and may have gotten tweaked in carb setting to cause it to run lean damaging the motor and causing the header issues...or maybe that header issue...that's just flat black exhaust paint and it's sins...
I'm not a fan of murdered flat black...
Why did you need to rebuild the motor or was it just a personal choice?
What did you do to the motor when you rebuilt it. It is a term often used and it can mean minimal or maximum work... that's why I ask what all you replaced, machines, refreshed with new or better parts and the like.
Some people say they rebuilt a motor and it was completely torn apart, everything measured and any close to spec or expected to be wearing out before the next time they dig into a motor, around 30k isn't uncommon on the SOHC4 for timing chain and guides as well as any needed freshing up or replacement of parts requiring attention for bikes maintained and ridden regularly.
So, rebuilt can mean minimal refresh or can mean major overhaul and rebuilt to factory new condition or better than factory condition. Some call a new top end gasket set and maybe some valve work and some spray paint a rebuild...
The satin finish was gorgeous initially, try lookei g for Spray Max Urethane spray cans I think they have a satin, not always carried, but it will protect the paint job from spills as it looks like the PO was very sloppy and inexperienced, sometimes you can be experienced and still have an oops that damages the paint.
Good to see the bike again and kudos to you for your work on it and bringing it back to better shape. At least it's still surviving and having someone love on it again...
David
