What the helll are you building? (Page 1 of 3)

Trying to make running motorcycles out of all the bikes in my garage/yard

Plus trying to make my 60 Chevy wagon into a daily driver that other people will actually ride in

Anyone have a rule of thumb for how much drop you get for how much spring cut off?

When you cut a leaf, they pretty much fall to the ground.

1978 GMC Royale. Not a project I would recommend to anyone.  Ever.

Van

The Roadrace Jones boys just acquired another $500 '92 se-r.  We even have a name for it...The Red Barren....it's barren of tlc, good paint, good motor, good interior and good mechanics to work on it.  The Joneses will have to do.  It does have some real classy chrome fender eyebrows though.   Think we should leave the brows?  We'll start stripping it out next week.

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Someone else into old bikes? Awesome.

I've got a 1976 Yamaha XS500 and two Kawasaki KZ400's. One of the kawasaki's is going to my brother, the other is getting the cafe treatment.

Oh, This was for besides super top secret Lemons builds?
A Cosworth powered 72 Vega.....
A 57 Willys pickup with a Mercedes 5 cylinder Turbodiesel, 5 speed Jeep trans and a 4.0-1 Tera-low transfercase. Lifted 6"
Bought a '70 Cadillac  Fleetwood Brougham. Is like a big floaty cloud. Good for the back.
Made the driver side window on my '60 Jeep FC150 go up and down...was of course-stuck down....
Want to put a 4-53 Detroit Diesel in my 51 Chevy 1ton Panel truck. Before Bonneville.
Been working on building a 5.9 Cummins powered Wagoneer. With a 5 speed. Someday, I'll drive this....
Need to finish a couple Holley carbs for RichVS I been putting off the final details of for months.
Need to move my Workshop and tools to a new place to live along with 10-15 cars and Jeeps... By March or so....
Oh, And help CadillacBob build the next awful crapcan for racing. In time for Miller Motorsports Park....
So, Nothin much.....

Yeah, all my bikes stayed on the pavement too, but when I realized the safety gear to go road racing would cost as much as any of the bikes I had at the time, I learned to ride off road. After years of riding as a messenger in L.A. (after a year as a bicycle messenger in Boston), there was no real challenge in street riding anymore at the speeds I wanted to be going on the street. But it is amazing how much fun 20-40hp can be in the dirt when you are sliding everywhere. And so my most dirt worthy bike became my entry into the Elsinore Grand Prix, though folks still give me the look they gave me the looks now reserved for Lemons racers. Vintage dirt bike racing is abotu the closest thing to Lemons on 2 wheels.

About the best you can do is call Works performance and have a pair of shocks made for you. Then hit the gym and build as much muscle as possible to protect the more fragile bits, like you spine. You think a Bultaco rides like a truck, have you ever ridden a big Husky? The only way to ride my 71 CR400 is to throw it into the corners and steer with the rear wheel. Its got the front end geometry of a chopper. Something like 30* or rake and 5.5" of trail. Its a lot of fun to jump off the right side shift Husky and onto a left side shift Honda for back to back races.

I'm still scrambling to finish the Porschelump. Grr.

Anyone in Southern California who is into bikes, the Hell On Wheels motorcycle club run what you brung events are very much like Lemons races. Last year they had a motocross, a flat track race, and a hill climb, with classes for everything from actual prepped race bikes to old street bikes with a set of dual sport tires spooned on them.

An '86 F150.

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