This page was formed to follow the development of the club racer.
The first step on the road to building the club racer was to have a bike kindly donated by life member Kevin Boss seen here with Ivan Hoey the originator of the idea. Ivan proposed the idea of the club getting involved with building a club racer to inspire the members who always wanted to do one but never got to do it. The idea was proposed at the AGM in Sydney in 2006 and passed by those in attendance.
The next step was to try and raise some money towards getting the project started and to this end we produced some stickers and sold them to anyone who wanted them and managed to raise enough to get started.
Donations:-
Kevin Boss - the bike
Ivan Hoey - high ratio primary drive gears, bike building, planning and lot of
running around.
Kevin Palmer - Mikes big bore kit & machining of some parts.
Dave Taylor, Colin Weber -Weber designed ignition system, XS performance coils and
race leads, new advance/retard mechanism &
two BBQ fund raisers.
Matt Moloney - Delorto carburetors and an offer the rebuild the crank and help
with a billet camshaft when needed.
Terry Gliddon - rephase pin, swing arm, clutch kit, fork seals, anti reversion
cones, fork spacers, polishing, megaphones,
information gathering, fund raising & lots of phone calls.
Drug Booker - Promotional stickers
Daryl Hutcheon - Dynamometer time.
Doug Gallie - Billroy seal kit.
Geoff Bamford - Front end parts, chain & sprockets, BBQ fund raiser.
Lance Stewart - Brake calipers and machining.
Ross Lawson - Racing oil & fork oil.
Anthony Fredrick's - Cash donation, thanks Ant great effort.
Mike Fitzpatrick - Rear wheel & camshaft bearings.
An anonymous donor has
come forward with conrods, crank bearings and transmission bearings.
Steve and the Cairns boys had a BBQ to raise money for the club racer, thanks guys, great
work!!!
We have also sourced a rephased camshaft and stainless steel valves.
Glen Voice - flow testing.
Greg Baldock - Cash donation, thanks Greg it will be well spent.
Michael Kennedy wants to donate the rear shockers for the club racer.
Andrew Iggo - Cash donation, thanks Andrew.
Bill Wallis - Fork damper valves
David Rayner - Paint
Laurie Moloney - Mikes XS rocker arms
Nick McGinn - Bronze valve guides & light weight valve spring retainers.
Greg Tow - Cash donation, thanks Greg for your generous donation.
New Sponsors
I just got off the phone to Michael
Morse in the USA and he has agreed to sponsor our
racer with some of his Pads and Shoes from Vintage
Brake. Mike has proven to be a very helpful source of information as a racer
with many years of experience racing an XS650. Mike also runs 650
Central an excellent source for parts for the XS650.
Kim Anderson in Canada has donated a race seat.
Frank Trost - has agreed to sponsor our exhaust system for the club racer,
mandrel bent pipes.
Discounts offered:-
Walter Preisig - Discount on suspension needs from YSS. I have spoken to Walter
and he has offered us a very good discount.
Kim Anderson - Discounted fibreglass fuel tank (900SS Ducati style) and front
guard.
Robert Lange (Lange Engineering Geelong) - Alloy stock for part fabrication at a
discounted price.
Mick Jones of Classic Motorcycle Fibreglass (Moto Tumbi)
- Discounted price for a race fairing.
And of course where would we be without the best source of new parts in the world for the XS650
Here's the club Racer with most of the donated parts we have so far.
We are also still seeking sponsors who will get their business name on the bike.
All being well we will end up with something like this which will be displayed and raced around the country.
This class of post classic racer is now officially the support program for both the Moto GP and SBK events here in Oz. With some success throughout the year we will hopefully have our entry accepted for these major events as well as the Island Classic at Phillip Island and the Southern classic at Broadford. We also hope to race the bike at most PCRA meetings in N.S.W.
Sponsors will get excellent value for their money because this bike will be seen by lots of people and will receive lots of exposure on our very popular website. (We get 620,000 hits per month, that's why we are the number 1 XS650 website on Google!)
If you would like to get involved by buying a part we need or donate some cash or have some spare time to help do the work then contact us for further details.
Ivan Hoey at ltr.management@bigpond.com or 0407686520
Terry Gliddon at xs650@xs650.org.au
or 0408746881
100mm Diameter 155mm x 210mm.
Available for sale now. The price is $10 per sticker + $1.20 postage. If you buy both stickers I can stick them in the same envelope and save on postage. Thanks to Dru Booker for the excellent job he has done making these.
For Stickers email Terry Gliddon at toota@internode.on.net or call 0408746881
Belt Buckles are also still available if anyone wants one. The price has recently been increased to $100 including postage and packaging for Australian buyers and postage cost will be higher for overseas buyers. Email Terry Gliddon at toota@internode.on.net for Belt Buckles.
We are all set to make our first purchase for the race bike, Kim Anderson has sourced a fibreglass tank and front guard for us at a good price. This is too good an opportunity to pass up so we will be taking up Kim's offer. Here is a picture of the tank and seat as used on Kim's own racer.
Kim's tank, front guard and seat are the same as those for our race bike.
These purchases will be a great start towards building our race bike project.
Update 24/11/08
We now have access to a flow bench to develop the club racer head. John Nash at Geelong Performance Imports has agreed to let us use his Super Flow SF-600 and with Glen Voices' help we should be able to get a good flowing head for the racer.
Glen just happens to be an engine designer with Ford and he has kindly agreed to help with the project. I spent the weekend working in the shed to make the required fittings to to use on the flow bench so we could get going on the development as soon as possible. Kevin Palmer is making the adapter plate to fit the XS head to the SF-600 flow bench. Once we have all the pieces we can do a stock head as a baseline and start playing with some ideas we have to see if they work and hopefully we will gain an edge on the track.
Head fixture for lifting valves by a measured amount.
Kevin Palmer made the adapter for mounting the XS head to the flow bench (left) We still need to drill a few holes in it and add some studs like the sample on the right. The bore size is 75mm to simulate the XS standard bore size, we will also make another for the big bore kit (80mm).
The adapter plate bolted up to a head.
One of the first jobs we will be doing to the club racer is to modify the rear hub, it will be drilled to lighten it but will have the added benefit of also aiding the cooling. Mike Morses' racer gave us the idea of copying this design from a picture on his website.
Notice the holes drilled between the spokes how they also catch the fins in the middle of the hub, this effectively increases the surface area of the fins increasing the cooling. The other holes drilled radially around the centre of the hub behind the sprocket also help by ventilating the brake drum and all of the holes lighten the back wheel helping the suspension to work better because there is less unsprung weight. It is this attention to detail that will make the difference in racing.
Update 27/12/08
We now have the camshaft we will be using in the race motor and it is a MikesXS billet cam that has been rephased by Jerry Heiden in Holland and we were also lucky enough to get some of MikesXS stainless steel valves. We now need to get some performance valve springs, retainers and seals to complete the set. Cam bearings, chain, guide and adjuster will also be needed. If you would like to donate any of these please let us know.
Glen managed to get access to the flow bench at work just before Christmas so we now have some baseline flow data for a stock XS650 head. This will be essential for comparison purposes when we start modifying our head so we will know if we are going in the right direction with our modifications to the ports.
As you can see our data (GV trace) varies from that supplied by Mike Morse (US trace) so we will need to do another session on a different flow bench for comparison, luckily we have access to a Super Flow 600 at Geelong Performance Imports so we should be able to verify which set of data is closest to reality early in the new year.
I will also be talking to Mike Morse at Vintage Brake in the new year to get some of his excellent brake shoes and pads for our racer. (Mike is a new sponsor)
I just received an email from Kim Anderson and our tank, seat and front guard are almost ready to ship to Oz.
Kim has done us a very big favour organizing this for our race bike project and on behalf of us all I would like to thank him for his hard work, if you ever find yourself in Oz Kim I'm sure we can organize some laps on the bike for you.
2009 is here, so it's was time to make a start on the club
racer.
I have stripped the engine down, degreased all the part's and headed over
to Billroy Engineering to bead blast the cases.
Did a couple of my own cases at the same time.
Now I have to work out a needs & wants parts list, so
we can order the remaining parts required.
I will press the crank apart early next week, ready for rephasing.
Ivan
We got a special delivery this week from Ross Lawson at Amsoil, enough oil to lubricate the Queen Mary, thanks Ross.
One of our new members, Robert McKie, is an XS650 racer and I took the opportunity to talk to him at length about what we can do to our club racer to improve the handling and still be period 4 legal.
I finally caught up with John Nash at Geelong Performance Imports yesterday and returned his adapter plate for the flow bench.
Wanted - Donors to buy these parts
Wanted - Damper rods and caps for 35mm front
forks (used) provided by Geoff Bamford
(club member)
Wanted - Cam chain (Part #52-4008) $70
bought from
club racer fund
Wanted - Guide (Part #05-0006) $45 bought
from club racer fund
Wanted - Tensioner (Part #05-0004) $90
bought from club racer
fund
Wanted - Steering head bearing kit (Part #28-2009) $60
Wanted - Premium valve stem seals (Part #01-0115
) $25 set of 4
Wanted - Performance valve spring set (Part #05-0029) $214 bought
from club racer fund
Wanted - Swing arm needle bearing conversion (Part #28-1011) $120
Wanted - Top end engine 'O' ring set (Part #18-0855) $21
Wanted - Camshaft bearings x 4 (Part #05-0007) $74 set of 4 donated
by Mike Fitzpatrick (club member)
Wanted - new rockers (Part #05-0037) $152 donated
by Laurie Moloney
Wanted - fork damper valves (Part #27-1086) $75 donated
by Bill Wallis (club member)
Wanted - progressive front springs for 35mm forks (Part #27-1088) $106
Wanted - aluminium rocker shaft plugs (Part #05-0081) $20
MikesXS part numbers are listed with the wanted parts and approximate prices in AU$ freight delivery charges extra.
If anyone would like to donate anything from the wanted list please contact Terry Gliddon at toota@internode.on.net or call 0408746881
30/1/09 Update
Frank Trost called me at the weekend and after a long
discussion about what he's doing and what we are doing he offered to make the
exhaust system for our club racer. He has a mate who owes him a favour and
luckily for us his mate has a mandrel bender.
I also approached our very good Canadian mate Kim Anderson
and asked him if he could kindly buy a wheel rim for us from MikesXS Canada.
Mikes USA was out of stock and I looked and found one on the Canadian site,
unfortunately they don't export so Kim has very kindly bought it for us and is
shipping it out soon. He will also be shipping out our tank, seat and front
guard which he has finished.
Also this week I received the front forks I ordered from MikesXS. I also bought
some aluminium and steel bar to make some spacers.
1/2/09 Update
Mike Roberts called in on a family outing to Portarlington
and bought a Calendar and two stickers and gave a donation towards the club
racer. Thanks Mike.
14/2/09 Update
Ivan went to the airport and picked up our tank, seat, front guard and
Mikes' performance alloy rim kindly sent by Kim Anderson in Canada.
I spoke to Mike Morse and got the details of our exhaust system ands posted the
details to Frank Trost who has offered to mandrel bend our pipes.
Last Saturday I got together with Glen and we did a flow bench test on a stock
head as a baseline for our modifications. This was done on a 47.9°C day in a
tin shed on John Nash's Super Flow 600 Bench with his help, thanks John. Soon we
will start to play with the ports in the hope we can make a killer head for the
racer.
Glen was happy with the results as the data collected indicates the Superflow bench is accurate enough compared to other data we already had from other sources. We can now proceed with confidence in the data we collect as we modify the head.
15/2/09
BBQ at Dave Taylor's this weekend, good day and raised some more for the club
racer, another donation from Mike Roberts.
Turnout was a bit on the low side with only nine attending but it was a good day
and we enjoyed ourselves.
24/2/09
Tapered roller steering head bearings and needle roller swing arm bearings
arrived today from Brian Robinson in the US.
We are now starting to receive parts from people who want to help build our
racer that aren't even club members!!!
How great would it be if we could get the same response from some of our club
members. Thanks to those who have already contributed by buying a belt buckle,
sticker or calendar or donated parts etc. you know who you are. For the rest of
you it's not too late, we still have stickers and can get more
belt buckles made if someone wants one.
Dave Rayner has offered to paint the club racer so I have been trying to think of a nice colour. How about orange? It's nice and visible without going crazy. We want it to stand out in a crowd and I think this would, what do you think?
20/3/09
Unfortunately Tarozzi got back to Paul with some bad news, the fork braces were first made in 1976 and are therefore ineligible for period 4 racing. If you have a XS650 Paul can supply a number of great parts that fit so check out their website and give him a call to discuss your needs..
23/3/09
Ivan sent the Mikes XS stainless steel valves down this week so hopefully we can do a flow test on these installed in the model head next weekend. I have also started making the anti reversion cones and flanges for the exhaust.
Here's a pic of the Mikes XS stainless steel valves, one inlet and one exhaust, we also have the new collets. Now all we need is the performance springs and retainers to complete the hardware for the head.
I'll post some pics of the anti-reversion cones/flanges when I have finished them.
29/3/09
I got busy on the lathe this weekend and made up the anti-reversion cones for the club racer exhaust.
Yesterday Glen, Kevin and I went to John Nash's to flow the head again, this time to check if the Mikes XS stainless steel valves are better than stock, and of course they are. Glen said that on the inlet side they flowed as much as 10% better, I will post the flow chart on here when Glen has had the time to crunch the numbers. We discussed whether we the need an exhaust stub for future flow bench testing and it was decided that we do so I went to a local exhaust place and bought a 44mm 90° mandrel bend for the purpose. We may also need a ram tube or dummy carb for the inlet side as well. I have some Shell racing inlet manifolds so we might adapt a ram tube to one of them. Kevin had some ram tubes spun up by a metal spinner some time ago and they look perfect for the job.
Here is the flow chart for the Mikes SS inlet valve in the unmodified head, interestingly it flows better than the stock valve.
Here is the flow chart for the Mikes SS exhaust valve, no real gains but that is to be expected with the evil stock exhaust port.
2/4/09
Mike Fitzpatrick has just contacted me with a donation of the
camshaft bearings we need, thanks Mike.
Greg Baldock has also contacted me with a generous cash donation for the club
racer, thanks Greg.
5/4/09
Ivan tells me he has picked up the newly welded crankcases with the welded up starter motor hole. The work was done by a mate of Ivan's. Pics to follow.
9/4/09
Michael Kennedy called Ivan and
expressed his interest in buying the race suspension for the club racer.
This is a very generous offer and frees up extra funds to buy some much needed
parts to complete the club racer, thanks Mike.
The XS650 engine wall charts have been printed and laminated and be posted out today (9/4/09) thanks to those who bought them, this has helped raise some more funds for the club racer. We are now looking good to complete the racer but I'm sure something else will be needed down the road so the fund raising will continue until the bike is finished.
Ivan sent the fork legs down so I thought I would make them look nice by polishing them. I will have to get some fork seals now and put them together with the stock springs. When the bike almost completed we will be able to work out the spring rates we need determined by the final weight of the bike. At that time we will also be able to determine the shock lengths for the rear as well as spring rates for them.
15/4/09
I bought some fork seals for the racer forks today.
Dave Rayner tells me Andrew Iggo has made a cash donation for the club racer,
thanks Andrew, every bit helps.
Finally all together with new seals fitted and ready to go once we determine what viscosity oil to use.
Once we have the new triple trees made I can ship the hole front end back to Sydney for installation in the race bike.
3/5/09
I spent this weekend making the megaphones for the club racer.
Mike Fitzpatrick was kind enough to donate some great parts for our race bike. Thanks very much Mike we are very grateful for your generous donation and your offer to help out.
3/6/09
All being well we will be flow bench testing several modified heads this weekend (7/6/09) to see which direction we will be taking with our head modifications.
7/6/09
We managed to get the flow figures done on five different heads at the weekend. Some had stock valves and various port modifications and others had big valves and modified ports so we have now collected enough data to work out what modifications work best and how far we need to go with the porting and this will determine what we are going to do for our race head. Just to give you all a clue, we will be using stock sized valves and very minor port modification.
12/6/09
I rang and talked to Mike Morse at Vintage Brake this morning and he is sending our brake pads and shoes next week. Also received an email from Mikes XS and they have located a front rim for our race bike and are sending it as soon as possible.
25/6/09
Received the wheel rim from Mikes XS today so we can now get on with some wheel building for the racer.
8/7/09
Picked up the battery charger for the club racer today and should get the batteries next week.
10/7/09
I got one of the two batteries today, these are dry and will keep for months until we need them.
Update 31/7/09
In a couple of weeks time I will be traveling up to Sydney to drop off some stuff I have accumulated for the club racer and picking up some of the stuff Ivan has been storing. I am hoping to see Ivan race at Oran Park on the 23rd of August before traveling back.
Glen has been busy checking out some head modifications we are going to do to the club racer head but is about to fly out to England and America with work so that will stop our head development for a few weeks. Dave Rayner has ordered the Kibblewhite valve guides he is donating to the project and Matt is looking at the crankshaft rephasing. I discussed with Ivan the possibility of Matt doing the motor for the racer and Ivan has agreed that this would be best as Matt will be racing it. Ivan will concentrate on the rolling chassis for the racer which will include the wheel building and some fiberglass work as well as any frame mods he deems necessary.
We still need to buy a few parts for the motor and the ozzie dollar is helping out by going up in value so it might time, very soon, to put in our order with Mikes XS. The fund raising continues with the sale of the Back Issues CD's and sticker deal and to date I have had several buyers but could stand a few more.
If you were intending to make a donation towards the club racer then now would be a good time to speak up.
Update 17/8/09
I talked to John at "Johny Dyno" in Geelong last week and he is willing to dynamically balance our crankshaft for the race bike when we are ready. I am traveling up the Sydney this weekend to drop off the rolling chassis stuff for the race bike and pick the engine bits for Matt. We should be able to start the head mods very soon as we have now finished the research part of the project and now know what we want to do.
Update 25/8/09
Kevin Palmer and I went to Sydney at the weekend to drop off some parts for the racer and stayed at Geoff Bamford's place where we were treated royally by Geoff and Louise who had also invited a few blokes around for a get together including Herb Conlon and Chris "Bung" Williams among others, Herb's chilli prawns were the sensation of the night. While we were in Sydney we took the opportunity to visit Dave Rayner on Saturday and had lunch with him and Jeanette before setting off to catch up with Ivan Hoey. Went out for dinner with Ivan and Caren before retiring back to Geoff's place for the night. Sunday we went to Oran Park to watch Ivan race and we were impressed by his performance on his XS 750cc racer, he got four second places and a third. Went back to Ivan's that night for dinner and loaded the bits and pieces we had to bring back.
Above: Ivan's racer - Below: Ivan with an alternative drink (it's not what he was drinking the night before!!!)
Went back to Geoff's before heading south Monday morning. We did a bit of drinking and a lot of talking and all in all we had a great weekend and we sincerely wish to thank all those who made us welcome.
While I was at the Oran Park track I got a call from Laurie Moloney who has donated the new Mikes XS rockers for the club racer. Thanks Laurie for your generous donation.
7/9/09
Took all the engine parts down to Matt this weekend, we met half way and did the transfer at Lismore, included was the last order from Mikes XS including the cam chain, guide and tensioner as well as the competition valve springs. Matt will now go through all the parts to see if there is anything else we need to buy to complete the motor.
13/9/09
Bought a market tent on ebay, I thought it might be useful for the club racer and other club functions and I will get it painted up with the race team signage, I thought we might also use it as a pit shop to sell some caps, stubby holders and T-shirts to help raise money for the club racer when we go racing. More on this later.
1/10/09
I spend the weekend working in the shed making a jig so we can check the balance factor of our club racer crank. From what I have read from several sources is the rephased crank requires a balance factor of 50% and that the stock balance factor is around 62%. Usually when anyone has done a rephased motor they also fit a big bore kit and because the bigger pistons are heavier in theory they bring the balance factor very close to ideal. Dave Rayner found this out when he got his balanced, the bloke who did the job told him he was wasting his time doing it as it was so close to perfect it hardly needed modifying. But being the anal retentive I am I decided it better to be safe than sorry so I have organized for our club racer crank to be balanced when it is ready.
Here's a picture of the jig I made for doing the dynamic balancing of our club racer crank.
Once we have worked out the rotating mass and reciprocating mass we can apply the formula for working out the counterweights added to the jig and spun in the machine which will then tell how much and where to add or remove material to achieve our 50% balance factor. Simple right? Well actually no but if anyone is interested I will explain the procedure in more detail.
14/10/09
This week I ordered some burrs so we can start modifying our race head. I got them delivered yesterday. At the weekend I blasted the head to clean it up ready for some work. I can't wait to see how it turns out and get the flow bench fired up again.
19/10/09
I picked up the market tent today after Jezza Designs painted it for me. Looks good don't you think?
The AGM has come and gone and we have a new president, Geoff Bamford and some lively discussion regarding the club racer was discussed and there will be more on this later.
The outgoing pres. Dave Taylor bought along the ignition system for the club racer to the AGM and handed it over to Ivan.
1/12/09
I rang and spoke to Mick at Moto Tumbi this week enquiring about a fairing for our racer. I talked to Ivan first and told him I thought the fairing on Rod Asher's bike would suit our bike very well as all the fairings I had looked at to date were either too big or flat fronted. I showed him the pics of Rod's fairing (below) and he agreed so it looks like we can go ahead and buy this fairing from Moto Tumbi and Ivan is going to buy one for his P4 racer as well. As you can see it is proportional to the XS650's size and is aerodynamically shaped at the front, unlike those designed for a headlight which are much flatter and wider. If we get our orders together we might even save a few bucks on the deal.
9/12/09
I rang Moto Tumbi again today and spoke to Mick Jones at length about our club racer and he agreed to give us a discount if we bought two fairings so the deal was done and now we just have to wait for them to arrive. Ivan is very keen to have a rolling chassis completed early in the new year so he will be looking at getting our wheels laced up before Christmas.
20/1/10
Well things have been a bit quiet over the Christmas break but our new fairing has arrived from Moto Tumbi and Ivan says it looks good. Ivan has also done the rear hub ready to get the wheels laced up. He has some frame bracing to do and when this is done and the wheels are done we should have a rolling chassis. I had hoped for some pics to show you but Ivan is a bit slack at sending them so I guess we'll just have to wait.
Glen Voice has been extremely busy at work so work on the head has temporarily been put on the back burner until he manages to find some time, Matt Moloney has also been busy but has managed to get some of the engine work done with much still to do.
I have been looking into camshaft theory and how it relates to what will work with our configuration and I have to say it is really an interesting and complex subject with so many variables that play a part in the final engine set up that it makes your head spin! I have been looking into such things as dynamic compression ratios, con rod ratios, inlet and exhaust valve openings and closings and port flow characteristics and how all these things must work with each other to give the best performance.
I am off to Phillip Island this weekend to watch the old bikes compete in the Island Classic and hope to catch up with Ivan Hoey, Rob McKie, Wayne Kennedy and Dave Taylor who will also be there, should be a good weekend.
13/2/10
Phillip Island was great and I met a few fellow club members that were also there to watch the classic racing. Ivan came down from Sydney with Craig and Marty, the guys from C&M cycles, Dave Taylor, John Chambers, Phil Mester, Rob McKie. I believe Wayne Kennedy and Mike Roberts were also there but I didn't see them. Kevin Palmer and myself made the trip from Geelong.
Steve Martin put on an exhibition on a very fast Suzuki and won every race he entered as well as breaking the lap record for the class. There were some very interesting bikes to look at including a Yamaha 1100cc converted from shaft drive to chain.
Ivan finally sent some pictures of the modified rear hub for the club racer and tells me he is dropping the rims and hubs into Chivo's this week to have them laced up.
All we need now is some pictures of the race fairing which also at Ivan's place.
Chivo has finished doing the wheels for the club racer.
And Ivan has finally taken a picture of the fairing. Thanks mate.
Now that the wheels have been done, we are well on the way to having a finished rolling chassis for our club racer. I'm off to Broadford this Sunday to watch the Victorian HMRAV titles and hope to catch up with Rod Asher.
24/4/2010
I went to Broadford and both the racing and the weather were
great, unfortunately Rod Asher had the flu and didn't go.
I recently bought a Yamaha TT500 alloy tank on ebay which was very badly dented
so I cut the bottom out of the tank and proceeded to knock the dents out, it
only took me about three days of hard yakka to get it up to scratch (never
again!!!).
As you can see it was pretty badly dented and looked like it had been stripped with a 40grit disc.
It looks ok now so the next job is to make a new base that fits the XS frame better. If it turns out ok when it's finished I am considering donating it to the club racer. I think it would be nice to have a spare just in case. I have it on my tracker at the moment and as you can see it looks good.
Nick McGinn has kindly donated some bronze valve guides for the club racer as they are no longer available from Kibblewhite.
23/5/2010
I had some more welding done on the alloy tank this weekend and also made a rear bracket for mounting it to the frame.
You can clearly see the welds done on the rear of the tank, some of this will be removed for a better look.
This top area was also patched to fill the hole for the oil in frame filler on the TT500. Next job is to turn up some bungs for the fuel taps and then make the rest of the base and weld it in, this will include the front mounts for the tank.
Nick has also kindly offered to make an alloy filler cap for the tank.
True to his word Nick has made the alloy fuel cap and light weight valve spring retainers.
Greg Tow has made a cash donation for the club racer and we thank him for his generosity.
Keep watching this space.
Last Updated 06 July 2010