The storm

There's your' problem, these cases ain't screwed together.

Kevin, in the midst of some lapping action

Jason shining up some valves

Skyler and Jeremy working, and working, and working on fitting up the swinger. This one should be sweet.

Anthony being artsy with the camera

Me playing with the gear stacks, looks like it will work out just fine.

My favorite poster

Junior attempting to straighten an intake valve. It was a valiant effort, but by the time he got it straight, it had shrunk too much. New set ordered and on its way from DCC as I type this.

The only type of beer you're likely to find at my place. But at least there's lots of it.

Done for the day and a beautiful day to ride.

...I wish I had a motorcycle.

Speed bump

Everything was going great. I was moving forward, the bike was coming together, and all was good.

...and then, I found this:

Those dogs are junk, fork is possibly reusable, drum is possibly reusable. I tried to find another one of these gears everywhere. I even bought up a whole new basket full of 750 transmission off ebay trying to get one. Same exact problem with that one.

But, with a little help from the good folks over at the SOHC4 Forum I've finally got one and after several months of complete dead stop on this project. I'm charging ahead again.

Life is good.

50 shades of grey (less 48... and one of them's actually black)

It's cold, cold sucks. Cold sucks in general, but cold really sucks for painting. So this is my wifes little bathroom heater drafted into block heater duty. There's nothing wrong with rattle can paint if you can apply it right. It's thin which isn't a problem as long as you can put enough coats on. You can't catalyze it but you can cure it in other ways if it's formulated to do so. This VHT is supposed to be cured in an oven at 200 degrees for an hour.

One thing that you don't want to do though is paint with cold paint, or paint a cold surface, it inhibits curing, adhesion, and pretty much everything that you don't want inhibited. That's why I'm heating everything up.

Most of the parts that I painted got sandblasted, but these lower cases I wanted to keep out of the blast cabinet because I was afraid that I'd never get all the sand out. Instead I used a lot of q-tips, paper towels, rags, solvent, carb cleaner, and patience.