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

Weird, the stuff I've found doing background research says they're reliable, particularly 2002 onward.

Only about a dozen more things to do before its a whole bike again. Sometime after Sears Point it should see some road miles again.

From this

To this in about a year's time (of course not working on it all the time)

They're very reliable until about 80-90k miles.  That's the mean lifetime of the oil control rings.  I got mine with about 50k miles and drove the tits off it until just over 100k miles, and all I had to replace was the tires and a couple ignition coils.

But when it came to "fixing" the oil rings, that would've put me underwater.  Apparently the engine is built to very tight tolerances, so you can't just have any shop fix the engine, otherwise that fix won't last very long.  The only feasible option was a swap, and the only rational swap is a 2zz swap (baby Lotus!)... and we couldn't find a decent 2zz for anything less than $4k.

One day, I'll have that MR2 with a turbo'ed 2zz, one day... just not any time soon.

Not Lemoning since Buttonwillow last year and all I've actually managed to accomplish is getting this thing legal and ridable. As I titled the blog post: Its not finished, but it is done, for now.

http://piledriverz.com/2014/05/18/its-n … afe-racer/

Yes, there were some decisions made that do not toe the line of "Cafe Racer" orthodoxy, but if and when it ever gets to the final finished stage stuff like the higher, frame mounted headlight will make sense. The flat drag bar will get replaced with clip-ons somewhere in the future as well.

I'm working on finishing Optimus Prime. In electrical wiring hell right now.

While I'd love to be attaching the back half of a Fiero to the front half of a 1990s Buick Skylark, I'm just building a successful move back to Charlottesville.