Turbocharged, Supercharged, and Hotrod Motorcycles: [turbobike] it works!

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[turbobike] it works!

Stuart Graves

STUARTGSXR@bigpond.com

Sat, 30 Oct 1999 16:38:15 +1100

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0028_01BF22F5.29F4BC60 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit First ride today,usual probs,petrol pissing out of fuel tap past dry O rings etc.Only revved it to 6,000 rpm but that was enough to scare me!.Seems to be much smoother?.I think my turbo has problems(paid$40.00 AUS.for it so cant complain)Under power and cruising the exhaust is a bit smokey,but when I back off it gets really bad and takes a while to clear up.Should I have hooked the scavenge pump oil line directly from the bottom of the turbo? or should I fab up a catch tank of some sort and siphon out of that?.Anyway the thing finally runs! which is the most important thing. Thanks,Stuart ------=_NextPart_000_0028_01BF22F5.29F4BC60 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">

First ride today,usual probs,petrol pissing out of = fuel tap=20 past dry O rings etc.Only revved it to 6,000 rpm but that was enough to = scare=20 me!.Seems to be much smoother?.I think my turbo has problems(paid$40.00 = AUS.for=20 it so cant complain)Under power and cruising the exhaust is a bit = smokey,but=20 when I back off it gets really bad and takes a while to clear up.Should = I have=20 hooked the scavenge pump oil line directly from the bottom of the turbo? = or=20 should I fab up a catch tank of some sort and siphon out of that?.Anyway = the=20 thing finally runs! which is the most important thing.

Thanks,Stuart