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z50r-blank wrote:Now THAT looks like a long, fun ride!

Man 'Jams, how far was you ride in miles? Looks like you went thru a state!!
So no problems; that's a good thing! What was the longest distance you held WOT? (or close to WOT) -I have been riding my Aero for some really long distances lately while giving it h*ll, and have not even suffered a "hiccup." -I have been amazed at just how well my Corsa / SEF crank build has performed (and been trouble-free since I got my port-timing corrected)

i am dreading the late fall and winter coming up... it gets really cold here in KY

Later, jon

Trafficjamz wrote:I took the general for a long ride today

tospreeornottospree wrote:Ok, so General Zod had a bit of a set back today. I used it as my primary form of transit for a couple of days. The primary goal of this exercise was, quite simply, to put some miles onto the newly built and seemingly over-generously jetted engine. Upon a seemingly routine visit to Trafficjamz (tm), I noticed it had been getting hard to start.
"No big concern.." I thought to myself as I thought as I rode it into town, "...It's just getting cool out."

Soon after this tragic assumption I put about a tank of gas through it and headed back out to the shop. At first, I parked my seemingly faithful steed among the many mighty 'peds. Little did i know, a terrible fate lie ahead for my poor head gasket (Spoiler alert).
Shortly thereafter I let a friend take it for a ride; he left for a bit then 'jamz says "When should worry about if our inexperianced cohort happend to fall upon ill settings? Shall we pursue a bold plan of action involving heroics and explosions?"
To this replied, "Good chap, I feel that the most lkely explanation for his extended abscince is simply that he must be having fun! There is as of yet no need to take any, let alone such drastic, measures! Stand at ease old friend, for he shall return shortly." After not hearing him for a few more minutes 'jamz went for a search and rescue mission, finding General Zod had come to a hault. Initially thinking that it was a fouled plug, whilst still having gas and what seemed to be compression, I proceeded to test for spark.

It had it.

The next logical step was compression test... which yeilded a result of a mere 75psi. As the initial test returned results that were more in the 135psi range, I thought the worst. Never worring too much despite my previous statement that might lead some to belive that i thought the worst, I pulled the head off and much to me relief found no meltyness. As it would happen, the base gasket squished too much causing good ol' high compression, in turn taking out my head gasket.
It must have been going on for a while now, but for the life of me I could not figure out why it never seemed to be able to color a plug. Now it's back to square one. When tuning the 28mm carb before the gasket met its demise it had a 165 main in it. With another base gasket and head gasket fitted to my engine, I switched to a 150 which seems better, but not like it was after the the first part of the break in was done as the top speed it gone down to only 50 or so. The compression is back after the new gasket was made and put back together; a compression test now reads 125psi and temps seem to be running ok.
But requested half of wide power does not seem to easily go a 350-360 in the distance and sector with the power order addition revs to really seem never also to go oh well more than 7000 with a Stumperrate, me now correse to be able would want, like my l' the pleasant Rollerfahrt that around 30 miles we took, or, therefore that waited forÔǪ or the part of the day f´┐¢ehlte n' to not run more perfectly elevated scoot OK despite..

tospreeornottospree wrote:lmao well spreetard decided to embellish on my cellphone posting so yes it looks to be that i had possibly played with glue for a little too long