mello dude
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Ive looked at a few of these Blackstone reports, and they strike me as an engine health report more than an oil report. Yes, they do the analysis of the elements in the oil. But are they saying the sample is acceptable and can run farther, longer? Are they saying you can run another 4000 miles? - Interpretation is key.
What do you guys think?
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Looks good! Damn thats a clean 5th gen!
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Wow, fantastic! That's some impressive work.
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Wow, that's pretty cool. Give us a riding report after you've been riding it awhile.
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Aw, hate to see frodus give up on it. He's been at it for quite a while.
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^^^^^ -- Try this - Gary at Custom rewind. Its cheaper than new. A couple guys here have done it.
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Hey JZH - um, well gotta ask - Are you going to do any dyno runs and charts? How 'bout a few quarter mile runs for grins. - I bet I'm not the only curious foole on this stuff....
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^^^^^^^^^ Yyyyyeeeeesssssss! Cool.....
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Great job! Opens up different wheel possibilities......
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Bookmarked!
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Sorry to bring up a pretty old thread, but what was the verdict with this MOD? I know it bugs the crap out of me when I see my 5th gen start going up past 215*F
Since the 6th gen uses a 3 row cooler, it probly wouldnt hurt to a least bump up to at least a 3 row on a 5th gen. Also I hear that the 6th gen radiators are larger than the 5th.
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Sweet job Tink!
-Your wire harness rework blows me away!
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Great job Tink! -- Curious about the mirrors - what are they? -- looks good...
Kudos! - Nice video!
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1st I'd like to say this post is a prim example of how thoughtful the ppl are on this forum, out of 77 ppl that viewed it, not one made a bad comment about my mod to my brake lever.
Well - I think your nutz, your giving up a lot of leverage when you really need to grab a handful of brake.
- But to each his own.
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Great thread!
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Doink! Dave Dodge found my cams! Oh, and he states that with just the stage one grind, minimum 8HP gain.
Cool!
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I would really like to see an oil thread of Lab Analysis - Blackstone - mileage, and data results.
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Bump for awesomeness!
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I like your project. Great job. - 432 pounds, that' s impresive. - if you have the old/new parts weight, I would be interested in that. The weight reduction thing is something I wanted to try on a 5th gen.
- Please continue to post - -- most people here are a bunch of techies & geeks and just curious. (me too)
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Dude, you've made so many changes, I've lost track of where you are at. How 'bout a quick history post? 2002 to '06 ecu to engine to xxxx to etc...... lol. (your wife may be getting jealous of that bike.lol.) Carry on bro....
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Gday MD... start mate? I've almost finished!!
Finished the collection I mean. I have the chart and I know that all the listed triples will fit with the forks.
I was just after the little intricacies of each, as in the steering stops and possibly the pinch bolt placements and stem lengths.
I know there can be some interference with the oil cooler (I think) and just popped the q before I send the cash OS.
I just wondered if one was better/stronger/easier... than the other.
I had alot of this info in my PMs but they went bye bye.
Oh - ok, very cool
When you get going be sure post up a good photo build thread. -
I think Sebspeed has a super duper excel chart on that stuff. I got a copy but I cant find it for the moment.
That would be a good place to start.
The Official Oil Thread
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Lots of people are under the impression that the engineers get to write the specifications to the letter that they want and believe is correct. Well, in a large corporation, quite often, that is only partially true. Some corps, it is a policy from the top, that they want to promote the appearance that they are Pro Green policy. Honda is big on this. So, what happens quite often is that marketing gets its orders and they have to take that and wrestle with the engineers to agree on a balance of policy and the balance of technical reality. So here, specing out a 8k interval may be totally possible, and some have demontrated it, as a company promoting long intervals seems to be a pro green, environmental help the earth thing and that is good PR for the manufacturer. But assuming 8k interval fits everybodys situation? Probably not true. (Why Blackstone gets business.)
As an automotive engineer, I have been in quite a few situations that marketing insists that we have to change something for a policy or a cost issue. - Engineer says I need $25 to do this right, marketing come back and demands you only get $20. So your stuck and have to lowball components to put it together. Ad nausem. (sucks) - I'm guessing this happened to VFR wire harnesses.