Tues practice

Tuesday night practice went a little better than monday. Unfortunately the superbike engine/engines are still in bits and we are trying to make a good one of the 2. We got to the point where we had an engine built and in to the chassis running.

It was really noisy however and the new head/valves must have somehow got damaged by the excessive heat that caused the motor to blow.

What has very cruelly happened is that the fuel pump had got blocked from crap in the tank. Usually when this happens the bikes misfire and dont run very well at all. Unfortunately this time on ours it must have only partially blocked and this causes the bike to keep running fine but excessively lean creating heat, pistons expanded due to this and then picked up on the bores. All on my brand new engine.

So yesterday the old engine/new head combo was still noisy. Today-Wednesday we have built the old engine back together, made a thicker head gasket to get safer clearances as this was a BSB engine running very tight....

Dialled the cams in, checked piston to valve and squish. If this one doesnt run well we're up shit creek! 

So i took the stocker out first last night for 1 lap and shes great, does everything as it should, we're making 1 small change to the shock for support.

I did 120 and tbh i'm happy with that for 1 lap. I can def build on that ok.

The 600 is really really fast. There was no bike out there that i saw faster. I was used to people clearing off when i rode the Kawasaki but this Yamaha really flies.

Its handling strange at the moment i thought that we need more weight forwards to get her to steer but actually Ian Lougher thinks that we may have gone too far and the front of the bike is pushing away from us.

4pm well the engines built and we've just finished shimming the head. We'll get her on the dyno tomorrow before we go out again and get the fuelling double checked too.

Soon i'll be getting ready for Tonights practice for hopefully 2 laps each on both the stocker and the R6.