Ah well, won't finish in a week but....

My goal was to try and take a long time lifeless bike and "renew" it in a weeks time but I got pretty obvious by Friday night that it wasn't going to be completely done by tonight. It was kind of a crazy goal with Christmas day and New Years Eve and day inside of that week which really cut into my available working time. I know that I failed in my goal but I don't feel at all bad because I've got so much done this week that without having a set time to try and finish, I never would have got so much done.

I'm at the point now where everything is complete as far as rebuilding/replacing/renewing and I've got the carbs mounted but not tightened. All the systems and components throughout the bike have been cleaned, checked/replaced/tested. Each little piece has been cleaned and polished and some have been repainted and everything looks fantastic. It really is a pretty sharp looking bike.

I am waiting for my new boost guage to arrive early this week to work in conjunction with the manual boost controller kit that was delivered on Friday. I've decided that instead of relying on the blow off valve to control the boost bleed, I'd take the advice of those smarter then me and get a controller to control that wastegate actuator, a more turbo friendly means of control.

I only need to reassemble the exhaust and intake components along wiith the plastic to be 100% complete. I've toyed with the idea of pouring some gas into the tank, affixing my exhaust hose(it runs outside) and firing the engine but I think that I'll go play some Chinese Checkers with my daughter instead, got to keep the priorities straight.....

jeff

 

Don't feel bad Jeff, once you get started it never ends. :lol:

 

you're a very smart man, you've had to overcome alot of obstacals with ingenious fixes. congratulations. Hope she runs smooth, and someday, when I get an 83 seca turbo, hope I can have such luck

 

Any pics jeff?

Rob

 

You can only get into trouble setting "Deadline's" for yourself.
It makes you rush things, or skip-over stuff you mentally store as a "Go-back".
It's those forgotten "Go-backs" that you forget to go-back too that can be real headaches.

It's more rewarding to engage the project without worrying about the clock.
Then, you won't get into trouble skipping-over something just to be able to keep making time.

Not under pressure to race against yourself to meet a deadline will reduce the overall cost of the project, too.

You'll be a lot less likely to jump into the car and try to get to the hardware store, across town, before it closes, ... for the right-sized flat washer or a missing hex nut you need, after just hearing your wife say: "Dinner's almost ready, Honey", ... only to find the hardware store out of exactly what you need and hearing the stock clerk tell you Home Depot has them, just down the road some.

 

I appreciate the support guys. Schooter, I'm not that bright but just a bit older then some others and have been lucky enough to learn some things by people much smarter then I am. I thank you for the nice words though.

I think that the main reason I went past my preconceived time limit was precisely because I won't cut corners or leave things for the end. I call them loose ends and I learned long ago that loose ends, in any project, will absolutely kill your project. The only thing that I pushed off for a couple days was the carb rebuilding which didn't effect the build order and turned out to be a good thing. Had I started with them, I might have buttoned up the whole kit and kaboodle like the PO did and sell the bike. I've rebuilt carbs from British, American, and just about every Japanese configuration there is, even a set for a Russian bike and these were hands down, the worst set to work on ever. Simple in their task but a nightmare of factory "fixes" they used in order to overcome the obstacles the engineeres encountered and it was obvious to me at least. They seemed to be a series of bandaids to cover the last problem instead of being engineered from the beginning. Maybe that's why all the other manufactures elected to utilize FI in their turbo projects. My fiance` even noticed....it took me a single hour to completely rebuild a set of three Miks for a friends H1 in early Novemeber(including setting the float levels) and I don't even want to admit how long it took to do these.

Another reason I ran out of time was because I made the command decision to go ahead and make the improvements that the engine/intake systems begged for while everything was open and accessable. I did some research on turbos in general and learned that the practice of using the BOV to control boost is very hard on the turbo so instead of going that route I chose to do it correctly. I decided to go with a manual boost controller so it had to be ordered. I also decided to go with electronic control of the fuel rather then go with the check valve that has become a problem to so many others. Lastly, I decided to eliminate the factory oil supply check valve to the turbo and buy a new inline check. That took me a while because I had to be sure that it would not only open at a very low pressure, but that it would flow sufficient oil to cool and lubricate the turbo. It's that kind of stuff that we can't always plan for ahead of time but if done, makes the project better over all.

I do have one other little thing that I need to research. That's, how do I replace/repair the chrome paint on the fairing emblems. I think I saw another post related to that recently and there has been some developement with a "paint on chrome". I'll have to check that out since my Caswells plating lab in my back room can't do plastic. The fairings are all in really nice shape and I hate to mar the whole project with chipped chrome on the lettering. Maybe I'll get my sweetheart to get her artists hand out and repaint them for me. She has done several engine emblem backrounds for me and from 3 feet away, you can't tell. I've never run into this before because this is my newest bike. All my others have had solid metal emblems so I've been able to plate them myself.

I'll post all the pics when I'm done with everything......who knows, maybe they will help someone else. I tend to take lots of pics to use as reference later but I'll probably post them all in my photobucket.

jeff