thorny path?

this is not how i wanted to finish 2010...

i thought i got everything. surely i got every part i needed but it didnt quite go well as i expected. somehow a couple of tappet clearances were out of range. how? that's the mystery. it looks like the 2011 is also thorny.

another update

replaced the problematic needle bearings to bushings. this is probably one of standard updates most of xr1000 owners would do. i don't know how many xr1000 owners up there reading my blog, however, i hope i can bring some ideas to them, some good, some may not be useful... i hear a lot of rumors about the model, mostly sever crticism. it maybe not wise not listening all that but i much prefer to experience myself before i speak.

colors

i got the valves. made them from harley sportster's ones. cut the stems shorter, made retainer groove and hardened. because they had different material between exhaust and intake, my moriwaki friend had to apply 2 different hardening methods which made different colors.
i tried to fit the valves to my xr1000 engine yesterday, and found out that i need to cut or replace the valve seats for intakes... i shouldve done it before i sent the valves to moriwaki. oh, well, at least i got new valves now.

in hibernation?

not quite.

very slow but some progress on my xr1000 engine.

we found someone in Nagoya could do me a special machining to finish this long time problem i had. the crank bearing case which casted in the aluminum crank case, became loose and i hadn't had complete measure for it. Now, see the photo. i think i can go another 50,000miles with it!!!!

now i'm waiting for the valves i sent to moriwaki which should be here sometime next week. will i be able to join my harley friends for the new year's day ride?

where it belongs

who knows what tomorrow brings...

on the zero engineering floor...
i just realized that i haven't really up my blog for quite sometime. there aren't much progress with my xr1000 engine, anyway. at least i can say that moriwaki engine guy will get me a set of valves can fit into my xr1000!

good snap

as we all expected...
coming out of the last turn of fuji speedway with 2nd gear at lap1, keeping it full throttle until it hits 7,000rpm, then up shit to 3rd... "SNAP". it was the time my small hope that my xr1000 aren't like no other was proved to be wrong... it was just another ordinary xr1000 with weak pinion shaft.
does anybody know where i can find a "andrews reinforced pinion shaft" before next race in october?

escaping from the heat

narusawano-taki, or narusawa waterfall.
i just got a lens filter for my little panasonic. drove up the montains in back of mikawa region and stopped to get some cool breeze and test the filter... i can't tell the difference between with and without the filter... did i spend 7,000yen for nothing??? better learn how to use all these special functions that panasonic put into the camera.