Topic: Wow - New manufacture 4-into-4 exhaust

[Bryan Boyle]

Any nuts falling off an airplane in flight is not good news. So $10 per is pretty cheap if they stay fastened.  Do they make aircraft grade Loctite?

Nah...we use the same as everyone else.

Actually...we use either nylocs on non-heated parts, internal star washers on heated (exhaust...) parts,
safety wire or cotter pin everything else.  Even the oil filter...

If you want to see the range of stuff...get the aircraft spruce and specialty company catalogue (the wish
book for acft. owners...).  So many ground pounder gearheads have been ordering stuff from them for
their race cars/bikes, they came up with a racer's parts catalogue.

[Bryan Boyle]

Bryan,

I hear you on the aircraft parts... ever thought about going the homebuilt route? I'm a former Pitts S-1S owner, sold it a year ago. Parts get a lot cheaper when they don't have those three letters on them... STC or PMA. Although, I was quite shocked at the bill for 8 new plugs... $260...ouch! Glad to see some other pilots here. I mostly just fly my buddy's '54 C-170B right now- and occasionally get a chance to fly a Champ.

Later,
-Pat-

Champs are neat rides.  Nice and responsive (compared to the hershey bar winged cherokees or C172s I bump
around in while exercising my CFI...), and not maintenance pigs (try sourcing parts for a commanche or c175....
ebay is a Good Thing for those folk...).

I've thought about the homebuilt route...lots of good stuff out there, but, I'm afraid I would sink a pile
into a kit and it would end up taking space in the garage while the divorce lawyers worked out the details...
they say you get the airworthiness cert and divorce decree out of the mailbox on the same day...  Not that
I am shaky at banging rivets or shaping composite...just the time is a big factor.

That being said, there are 2 or 3 lancairs being built on the field I fly/tiedown/teach at.  One of them was
in the EAA Sport Av mag this month.  Nice guy...O360 200hp FI mill on the front.   Exquisite finish, and
cruises 65% power at 5000' truing out at about 230 knots per hour.  Now, THAT is getting somewhere
fast... 

ObSOHCcontent: the owner of the lancair rides a cherry 76 750 to the field to fly...

[GroovieGhoulie]

I think a set of HM 341's will do just fine and even they are not cheap.  Nothing
makes a bike look great though then having a good looking set of pipes and a
good paint job.

At least get a set of proper glasspack 300s from DSS.  They are still available for 119 pounds each.

[Ted Nomura]

What a list !!!!!  Man, my wifes great but ?

Ted, can I call on you for future advice with my ongoing 72CL350 project?

If you're referring to me, I'm in a military so I can only check this site once or twice so you can contact me here. Currently I'm also rebuilding another 1972 CL350 and already got most of the parts I needed from ebay. I still need to build-up both CL350 and SL350K1 engines. Good luck on your 72CL350 project.

[74cb750]

Ted, do you have any pictures of the SL350?
Nicest bike ever, that  almost killed me off road.

[Ted Nomura]

Ted, do you have any pictures of the SL350?
Nicest bike ever, that  almost killed me off road.

I don't have photos that I can transfer now (I'm kinda new at digital photos) but my 1970 1/2 SL350K1 (same as 1971 model but manufactured in 1970 and registered as such) is blue,  1971 unit is red and the SL350K2 is gold. My original 1971 SL350K1 was my high school days bike and had it customized heavily then, mostly in the popular "chopper-look" form, with Z-bar, cobra seat and sissy bar, completely custom painted too. Back then my girlfriend and I rode it regularly and it was a fair bike, not the best dirt bike but a good scrambler. For me, it was a true multi-purpose bike. I had that poor thing converted to cafe-racer, semi-chopper, or enduro before I sold it so I can buy a new Kawasaki 900. But I missed my Sl350 so much that about a decade ago, I bought three near stock units (all with original pipes but some are dented) for total of $400. Best thing I ever did. Now I'm looking for an affordable 1972 Yamaha AT2.