Kid Kearsley

Lights out

23:56 Just fired, knocked it off, its late, bed, fix bits that need more zippy ties in the morning. Pack the van and go.

Busy. Have a picture

22:30 and Iv just left FBM, Mr Dunlop is a legend doing out of hours for me, travel home now. Might get my head on the pillow about 1am due to road closures on the way home.

Last nights tasks. Dump Oil, Change oil pickup strainer, re do valve clearances. Strip and clean fuel system, Change Carb Slides Just loads of faffing really, and doing jobs as and when you see them. I'm good at delegation. Just to add to pressure the CHRA has not arrived today. Which looses me this weekend and Monday night after work going to FBM to collect. Did I say that the bike needs to be ready for Wednesday morning?

@Arttu we have found debris in the oil so I don't think that has helped, it had been getting worse and worse over the last year. Iv not changed the oil in quite some time, admitidly due to laziness. Iv also been giving the motor a hard time recently when I put a long swingarm on and thought it funny to go limiter bashing whilst smoking the rear tyre in every gear- everywhere possible. My bad. It was a used item when fitted to my bike 2 years ago and it has had a hard life during my ownership.

Still loads to be getting on with whilst next months rent money... I mean my turbo core is posted out to me.

Bought.... Lucky i know how to survive on beans n cardboard. should be overnighted to FBM

So I knew my gasket needed replacing on my headers to exhaust housing. Easy enough job. Bike on lift headers off, yep gaskets mullered, no problem, gets new gasket. The the mother of all F@#Ks was found So at 7:30pm I left for FBM HQ, arrived at 10PM, yep it's fucked. Awwiting a costing report from Universal Turbos this afternoon. Iv already been looking at 0% credit cards put it that way, as a guide.. you get the idea Shit or Bust. Just how we like it. 8 days to go!

Not going to be the same without you!

@bluedog59 Iv had a few of those... all above 150 I would say

19th/20th August @Swirl

You missed out... keep the wheel in the air for a kilometre... then go through the traps. Doesn't sound like far but it is.

@no class there is only a speed trap at the finish line, the entry speed or time taken between the start of the measured kilo and the end of the kilo are not measured. It's pure balls out top speed through the finish line that takes the trophy.

Just clicked into top gear, eyes on the prize not the speedo but it's gotta be over 120mph I'd of thought

The Wheelie competition is a funny one, one weekend a year, one chance, one dream. The dream? Entering a marker in top gear on Elvingtons runway Two Six on the back wheel at speeds of well over 100+mph, keeping the wheel off the floor whilst accelerating close to 200mph and finally landing back to earth a measured Kilometre later. Hoping the speeds are somewhere near the the Top Ten (ok top twenty). This event attracts competitors from all around the world, notably Holland, America Ireland and France. Top Speed Tuesdays are available for practice sessions but even if the world Wheelie record that currently stands at 214mph by Egbert Van Popta on his Turbo Charged Hayabusa is beaten... it doesn't count. TST practice days are almost considered cheating by some competitors as most just turn up for one weekend a year to prove their worth. I have been neglecting my wheelie duties since my engine blew up in October 2016 at 200mph. Since then I have rebuilt the engine and done some quarter mile racing and plenty of road miles. So I have had zero practice since last year with regards to wheelie so it's Shit or Bust, just how we like it. With the Wheelie Comp some three weeks away it's time to start getting the bike race ready. So out with the drag swingarm and back to the short Gsxr 750 K swingarm that gives me a wheelbase of 55" A quick test run soon makes you remember how easily a 300bhp 55" wheelbased turbocharged gsxr11 can stand up on its back wheel. After a few arse clentching skyward moments on my personal test track it's straight back to base for a look over. Leaking oil from the base gasket, blown gasket on the mailfold and witness marks of the turbo on the tyre from a few heavy landings. Rocker cover off for a retorque of the cylinder head and valve clearances were the first port of call today. Luckily I now have professional tech support from my travelling circus. Test fire shows no oil now seeping from the base gasket, this engine is forever trying to rip itself apart, just keep clamping down the head. You will go to the ball. Over the next few evenings as and when time allows I shall make the appropriate changes to having the bike race ready. Fork height change, turbo gasket, full exhaust fitment, bodywork change, remove quick shifter etc etc, plenty of things to keep me busy, or Jess busy. I shall document on this thread during the build up and post my results as I go. Tick Tock

So after talking to loopy Iv decided against it because I like road riding too much and I like going the pub (via petrol stations) on completely impractical bikes, but not so impractical that I'd require my girl to follow behind me with drums of methanol and boxes of spark plugs and oil.

Jess- "you... with methanol.... sorry I shouldn't laugh..... that's like giving little Jack a lit stick of dynamite"

I'm sure there has been plenty of people that have methanol powered an oil boiler in the past

Undecided hence the asking for information. Just after some bed time stories to swot up on. Iv done an hours googling and reading bits and pieces. It just seems the right path for a gear head to take. I don't wanna sit in a pub when I'm old and not have a blended fuel story.

Big AlkyD, just want some background knowledge meanwhile.

@Duckndive?

Anywhere on the web I can find information on running oil boilers on methanol in forced induction applications? Had a quick look, not coming up with much.

And the video from the stands

@KATANAMANGLER The Boot went fast Cheers