FRIDAY NIGHT TEST AND TUNE

[fast1]

  Dennis I still need you main hex jet size-call me. 596-5414. Cheers.

[Dennis]

My manual says that the main jet is a 340.  I hope that makes sense.

Peace & Grease, Dennis

[Sr.X]

There's racing in Houston this weekend, would sure make it worth going if Dennis was racing.

[fast1]

  Am going to Kris Deroschers' tomorrow. Will get a selection of jets and bring the necessary tools. Cheers.

[Hans]

a couple fresh plugs might be handy also.  Does Dennis own a 'real' helmet??

[fast1]

  Needs some fine tuning but a respectable first time at the track. got gradually faster and did not break anything. Chopper turned a dismal 13.4, her best in the past a 13.1. Gotta get to work on the red rocket..... Fun and a good time had by all. sitting in line with full leather almost made me pass out-so hot! Thank god Dennis brought beer. $22.00 for four runs-$5.550 per. Well worth it. Cheers.

[Dennis]

After a few reflective beers in the garage with my wife, I am still grinning from ear to ear.  My bike ran shitty.  I was the brunt of the announcer's jokes, but I have pretty thick skin and don't mind being made fun of, especially when I deserve it.

My bike starved for fuel after the 1/8 mile so I am speculating that its my hardware store petcock.  I have another I will try.  Fast 1 got me  some bigger jets (he upped it from 340 to 360), and of course there is timing and porting and all kinds of stuff to make a two stroke go faster.   I didn't get hurt, and I didn't break anything on my bike.  I had a greasy burger.  I got to spend a Friday night hanging with my buddies and my wife.  I'd call that a successful first night of racing.

Peace & grease, Dennis.

[Hans]

It was a fun night, Wil was grinning from ear to ear most of the night.  Loud fast cars and bikes ('cept Dennis....) and a bit of a playground to boot.  He crashed hard on the drive home. 

Dennis, maybe lose the fuel filter and make sure your tank vents well also.  When it cleaned out, it seemed to pick up speed not too bad.

[Sr.X]

Glad things didn't start going south for you, I remember the all bike drags of many years ago when even the big money drag bikes had more bad runs than good ones. I've always been a spectator rather than a participant but hanging out in the pits I notice a lot of trial and error type of tuning. Hoping to make it to the Houston drags after work today if I can get finished early enough. Good day for a ride if nothing else.

  Later, Bob

[MaximX]

Was a nice evening.  I loaded some pictures to photobucket.  One is out of focus and I usually would elete it, but it is the only shot I have of Fast1 so have to go with it.....My friend's chevelle had fuel delivery problems as well, we gotta figure out that Qjet we put on it.....

http://s242.photobucket.com/albums/ff186/Pentax007/Drags%20PGMP/Aug%2018%202012/

[Donovan]

I enjoyed the Friday night drags.  I have not been to one for several years and it nice to know someone who is racing.  I will have to do it again.  Also liked the pictures of Dennis and Wayne racing and just hanging around.

[Rusty Bucket]

Excellent wheel-up shot of Dennis bringing the bike off the pad;  guys with street cars go to considerable trouble trying to get this result.  Watching Dennis, the thought occured I have a lot of extra GS1100 stuff around, wheels, frame, bodywork, engine (minus charging sysytem) pipes, carbs, and Toby's old wheelie bars... but the motor I have on the shelf was already described as 'tired', and would probably only push the bike to about 110-112 mph, maybe just fast enough to do an 11, but more markedly be the fat, lazy, air-cooled dinosaur the young 'uns with their modern Gixxer 600's and 750's kick sand on, let alone guys with 'Busa's and ZX14's. 
  What would a cop think about a streetbike sporting 6' wheelie-bars (maybe pointed straight up for the trip to the track) idling at the light in front of him?

[fast1]

  Claudio actually checked into this. Tail light has to be at the back of the bike.  If you put a tail/brake light at the back of the wheelie bars and plug it in to the existing one your legal. Cheers.

[fj1200]

You could wire a 4 prong trailer plug to the bike, and use a clip on light at the back.

[Dennis]

I  replaced the petcock and fuel filter.   The fuel filter I took out was in backwards.   I am not sure if that mattered or not.   This one will handle a V6 engine and I made sure the arrow was pointing towards the carb (duh).



 I ran it hard in the garage afterwards.  It won't hit the screaming RPMs that I need.   More research necessary.

Peace & Grease, Dennis