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Nice work.
Steve

magazine quality build!

you built an awesome one of a kind bike man,and added to your skillset.
kudos to you sir

thanks for posting your threads here.

leon

Looks fantastic. I really like the colours you went with,very subtle. You'll definately be getting a lot of double takes.Nice job.

getting the jetting dialed in. Doing full throttle plug chops gets the ol' adrenaline going, it rips to 100mph pretty fast. I'm still having issues with it shifting but it is better now that i adjusted the crank positions. The APE clutch pack comes with an extra fiber and steel disk, I'm going to pull them to see if that makes a difference.

I pulled off the clutch cover to remove some plates and this circlip falls out. Feck. This is my worst nightmare, so much so that after reading a post about the need to orientate the piston pin circlip openings I tore apart the top end of my motor to check. The circlips I couldn't move to the correct position I replaced. Fearing the worst after finding that clip I tore the top end off the motor to find out that I'm an idiot. All the pistons have their circlips installed still. My only thought is I accidentally dropped one of the old circlips in the motor and when I was replacing them out of paranoia and didn't realize it. Now that has come back to bite me in the ass. The good news is there is no damage and the motor looks like its breaking in very nicely. Once i have a new base gasket and head gasket this thing will be back together in a couple of hours, I have gotten real good at tearing this shit down and putting it back together again. 5th times a charm. D'OH!

I feel your pain Brother

sonufa

leon

Oh MAN.
Steve

You have to do what you have to do! I'm glad you got to the truth of that circlip! Nice build!

Well its back together again. I'm starting to think it is indeed the clutch stack because when i removed a couple disks it easily shifted through the gears.

Went down to LA for the weekend to check out Born Free and brought the bike in my truck. I rode just over 120 miles down there. Other than the shifting issue the bike performed very well this weekend. Most of that was on the freeway and I was leery of cruising speeds on the fresh motor so I was driving like a total dipshit trying to modulate my RPM significantly. I have a dyno appointment Tuesday to get this thing super dialed in, and see what kind of numbers its putting out.

Well the dyna session didn't go as planned. The clutch starts slipping at 7500 so we weren't able to do a full pull but he did give me some jetting suggestions and advised to go to the OEM clutch.(got one on the way) He thought the shifting issue doesn't lie in the shifter Linkage or the clutch stack but thinks the shifter drum/arm is worn or assembled incorrectly. Further inspection required.