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in a race car sense its a catch can that catches oil vapors and accumilates to oil. it was somethin i came up with to cover the hole on the valve cover rather than having a hose sticking out! so basically its an oil catch tank, and it vents the motor and catches the oil before it comes out the can and releases all the case pressure out the filter. its very easy to make. find a spray can prefferably a small one and drill out the top for a filter and the side for a feed line. i used 2 sockets i never use and JB weld, the filter i bought from auto zone. this can cost me 8$ if you have more questions hit me up on the board
it shouldnt have to be drained reallly, cause nothing is comming out. its more of a racey look more than anything. Lol i was bored and had time pretty much. but i guess for someone with a motor with bad rings it would serve its purpose pretty well. the upholstery shop said anywhere from 45-65 dollars for what i want and 30-40 to wrap it with some italian leather i got from a jacket at the thrift store.
You could have exact remakes of those forks made for pretty cheap, I can waterjet the two plates for around $10 each, you could go to any iron shop and have them bend you two peices of 7/8" mild steel tubing and weld them together in about 10 minutes.
Torch straightening is the other option, just be careful not to collapse the tubing when you go to bend it. Don't bother trying to temper them after heating, they weren't tempered when they were original, and heating them with a torch does nothing different than what the welds did to the steel when they were made in the first place. Quenching them with a hose will not temper them anyway. To temper mild steel it needs to be completely and evenly heated to deep cherry red (around 1100F), then oil quenched, then placed in an oven at a lower temperature around 500f to allow hardening to occur. Tempering/Hardening increases tensile strength (stretch), but reduces impact strength (Snap). There is no way to evenly heat a part that size with a torch, don't bother it won't gain you anything anyway.
Torch straightening is the other option, just be careful not to collapse the tubing when you go to bend it. Don't bother trying to temper them after heating, they weren't tempered when they were original, and heating them with a torch does nothing different than what the welds did to the steel when they were made in the first place. Quenching them with a hose will not temper them anyway. To temper mild steel it needs to be completely and evenly heated to deep cherry red (around 1100F), then oil quenched, then placed in an oven at a lower temperature around 500f to allow hardening to occur. Tempering/Hardening increases tensile strength (stretch), but reduces impact strength (Snap). There is no way to evenly heat a part that size with a torch, don't bother it won't gain you anything anyway.
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thanks for all the help guys!!!, im in the process of trying to find the same fork, i was told it was a cat 250x, so i got some searchin to do..i was thinking of making a 1 wheel wheelie bar nothing to big, just big enough to hold the front end down. monday i will see how it rides when my clutch comes from noram.
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:thumbsup:Finally the clutch came in from noram, thanks to quality drive systems in alhambra ca for the deal 121.03 shipped for a noram 1600 HD
Here is a test video of the bike the same day the clutch came in..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9RCmhfxlZY
Here is a test video of the bike the same day the clutch came in..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9RCmhfxlZY
so i locked up a race last night with a china 110 dirt bike that eventually flaked, so we reschedlued, and also locked up a run with a blazer with a 2.8 v6, well it ends up being a 5.7 litre swaped V8, so the first race i setup for my mini bike = failure! we lost by 3 blazer lengths in the 8th mile here is the video.
YouTube - V8 Powered Blazer S-10 VS. 11 Hp Mini Bike
YouTube - V8 Powered Blazer S-10 VS. 11 Hp Mini Bike
