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Jamie re-valves and rebuilds the shocks and will install the appropriate spring. Is a modified CBR shock as good as full out Ohlins? I'll go out on a limb and say no (can't say for sure as I've never tried a Ohlins, so I don't know the difference in perfomance.) However, at roughly half the price its a damn good option. I am highly satisfied with the work done on mine. Bear in mind though, I did both front and rear suspension on my bike at the same time. From what I gather, you'll notice far more difference when the front is overhauled. Or more appropriately, from those that have done both front and rear, but did the rear before doing the front...both were noticable improvements, but the front more so. Just some thoughts.

If you can't work out something with the gentleman Kaldek mentioned, give some thought to talking to Mr. Daugherty. He is a member here on this board and kind of a guru on VFR suspensions. Excellent guy to work with, knows his stuff and is very very reasonably priced. About a year or so ago I was getting ready to upgrade the suspension on my '98. After looking around, doing my research, and talking to Jamie, I concluded that for little more than what I would spend on just buying the parts to do the upgrades myself, I could pull everything off my bike, send it to Jamie and have all the work done, then just reinstall the completed parts. Easy peasy. Some of the best money I've spent on my VFR. Good Luck.

Spend some time wandering around the aisles of Autozone. I do believe I found an equivilant socket...think it was like an axle socket or steering wheel socket or something. And for much better than $45+

While I have no doubt you are correct about seeing the F-22's, there is however, definitely something to be said for driving along 247 next to Robins AFB, regularly seeing F-15's take-off and proceed to go almost straight to vertical until they disappear. Oh yeah and the almost daily sonic booms about lunch time too are pretty cool. Though the JSTARs birds frequently flying over our hangar (at the Macon airport) doing touch and go's at night got a little annoying. Those things are F'ing loud. Oh and they do have a pretty nice (and free) military aircraft museum there as well. Certianly not the size of Wright Patterson but they do have a Blackbird in one of the hangars and quite a few aircraft just sitting around outside that you can go up to and kick the tires on as well if memory serves correctly. Good way to kill a few hours, if you're in the area and have the time.

Have you tried Capitol Cycle on the north side of Macon? When I was still in WR they had a fairly decent selection of helmets. Shoei, Shark, Scorpion, HJC ect. Actually they are the reason I use Scoprion helmets personally. When I was upgrading from my first helmet, I was fairly set on going with a Shoei after seeing everybody on here raving about them. Found out about Capitol Cycle, so I wandered up there one day. Tried on a few Shoei's and they just weren't quite right. Tried some HJC's but didn't care for the fit and finish. Decided to try a Scorpion EXO 700 and loved it. Bought it cheaper online. Felt bad about it so I eventually ended up buying an EXO 400 (definitely not as good as the 700's) from them. They are actually pretty good people to deal with. I needed a replacement visor at one point because mine was all scratched up. Went in and told the guy at the counter what I needed, he goes into the back room and comes back a few minutes later with one. "How much?" I ask. His reply: "Don't worry about it. Just come back and buy something from us some other time." Their prices aren't anything to write home about, but you do have the convienience of having and supporting a local business. Good luck, and sorry to hear about the bike. Know the feeling...

Add me to the list of satisfied P.C. users. I just recently picked up a P.C. III and regret having not picked one up much much sooner. My biggest caveat would be to ask "What exactly are you expecting to get out of this?" If you are looking to add tire shredding power with a little black box....yeah, not so much. Yeah, you can probably pick up a few horsepower, but for me it was a rideability mod. I was sick of the bottom end on/off switch, and a canned map for a stock 5th gen pretty much cleaned it up. A little tweaking on the map and I'm even happier. Also how deep do you want to get into this? P.C. II is apparently more user intense with the additional feature of being able to modify the spark tables. The P.C. III you just hook up to the bike, hook up to the lap top, load a canned fuel map and you can probably get 70% - 80% of what you're looking for. Just my 2 pennies.

Winning Red. aka, the fastest color. :biggrin: Really? I heard they named it that because in reality its actually the slowest color, but they didn't want to hurt its feelings.... :fing02:

Seriously? I'm not going to lie...I'm a Snap-On junkie personally. That said, I've been through 4 different dealers - one in Milwaukee WI, one in Macon GA, one in South Houston TX, and am on my current one in north Houston. I bought the large bulk of my tools from the dealer in WI, but I've had to swap out alot of broken tools since and have never even heard of an "exchange fee". No muss, no fuss. I'm with Rydn4fun. Contact Snap-On corporate and run that jerk through the wringers - that reflects badly on their Brand Image. Back on topic. Another good place to find deals on tools - pawn shops. I've seen guys get some screaming deals on excellent tools.

Made it back home safe and sound. Had a fantastic time as always. A big thank you to BR and everybody else who put in their time and effort to make this another great ride.

Add me to the list of extremely satisfied customers. Like many others, the bulk of my riding gear comes through newenough. Heck, I've had to make use of their customer service twice this year and there were zero problems. First time was a Nelson Rigg tail bag that I had bought several years ago from them. It developed a tear by the mounting point. Talked to NR, said I needed proof of purchase. Emailed NE concerning my plight and 30 minutes later I had a copy of my original order. Printed it out, boxed up my tailbag, sent it out to NR, and about a week later I had a box on my door step with a brand new tailbag. No muss, no fuss. NR is a very good company to work with too. Second time was a few weeks ago. I ordered a pair of TCX boots earlier this year. Fit well, liked them very much, took them out for a ride when I finally got a chance (there was about a two month gab between recieving the boots and taking them out for their first ride). Then the next week I bought my first set of leather riding pants. Unfortunately I didn't account for how much space would be taken up by the pants in the ankle area. Well I got a little over zealous with the zipper and it broke. Email NE. One year warrenty on the boots, and they emailed me a prepaid Fedex label. Send the boots out and discuss the problem further with customer service, conclude that I need a pair of the Sidi Mega's. TCX ended up giving a full refund on my boots and NE applied that to my Sidi's. So in short. Newenough simply kicks ass!

At a guess I would think it should be a non-issue. Plenty of people out there have run water injection on engines. Makes no difference (corrosion/wear wise). If anything running water injection helps get rid of carbon build-up in the combustion chamber and exhaust valves. Think of steam cleaning something. Appearently on the tear down of water injected engines, the combustion chambers are as clean as a whistle. Now, granted, this isn't a water injection setup. The Oxygen and the Hydrogen are seperated at the begining, but they are being recombined into water, so I should think the end product is similar. If anything I wonder if that is where the cylinder cooling claim is coming from, possibly. Water has a fairly high thermal mass, so it suckes up alot of the heat from the combustion process, flashes to steam (which if I remember correctly has expansion rate of like 1600 times - say you had one cubic inch of water and flashed it to steam, it would now occupy 1600 cubic inches) which in turn helps push the piston. Or I could be completely wrong, because I have no idea how the extra O's and H's are going to react to the rest of the combustion process. Chemistry was never my strong suit but, I would like to see a bit more detailed explanation of what is actually happening in the combustion chamber. I guess my problem is with this statement: "Adding a moderate amount of Hydroxy gas to a gasoline or diesel engine, can radically change the rate of combustion in the cylinder. It accelerates the rate of combustion of the primary hydrocarbon fuel (Gas, Diesel, Ethanol, etc). This leads to more pressure on the piston on the power stroke so there is more torque, less heating of the block, and less unburned hydrocarbon fuel going out the exhaust port." No offense, but last I checked, we really don't want to speed up the combustion process because that is what happens in detonation. A proper air/fuel ratio in a combustion chamber at the proper temperature *burns* rapidly and smoothly pushing down nicely on the piston. When it gets too hot (either through compression or a hot spot in the combustion chamber) or the A/F ratio goes too lean, the mixture detonates and literally explodes which is too sudden of a shock for the piston and rotating assembly. This is why we have higher octane fuels. To raise the ignition point of the fuel when need be. Also it would seem by your statement that somehow by adding this extra fuel to the combustion process raises the pressure of the combustion event, but does not raise the overall temperature. That would seem to be a direct violation of Charles's Law. For a given volume, if pressure goes up, the temperature goes up. Simple as that. Heck, that's how a diesel engine works. Compress the snot out of A/F mix until it heats up to a point where it ignites on its own. No spark needed. However. In the case of the water injection, volume goes up, pressure goes up, but the water is being used to absorb the heat - since it is not actually being combusted, less heat is transfered to the cylinder and combustion chamber. Walks like a duck, quacks like a duck. I'm thinking its a glorified water injection system, but I could be wrong. As is frequently the case. As to Lee's comment about added system ineffiency - Maybe I misread it, but during one of the discussions a while back on the operation of the electrical supply system, basically it generates full power all the time, and sends left over to the R/R to be turned into waste heat anyways. If that is right, he would just be using potentially wasted energy anyways. Kind of like running a turbocharger as opposed to a supercharger.

I'm in. Yeah, but Chev, thats one of the great things about MBD. A ready supply of spare parts on hand. :musik20:

Hey Miguel, Something that might be worth trying (if you can with the paint you're using), maybe trying adding a little more thinner. One day I was shooting some paint at work - nothing as fancy as what you're doing - and I ended up with orange peel. One of the sheetmetal guys suggested adding a bit of thinner (the stuff I was using is actually a 2 part polyurethane paint system that comes premeasured in 1oz containers). To me it makes sense because more thinner should help the paint "flow" once on the part. Or I could be completely wrong. But It may be worth trying to avoid having to spend more time wet sanding. Just a thought. Keep up the good work and good luck. She's looking real good.

Where did you pick your boots up from? I ask because a member of another message board that I frequent, ordered a pair of Sidi Mega Somethings from NE. He had the same problem - one side was just right, the other was "off". Talked to NE and they appearently sent out a new pair with a return label for the first pair. He was satisfied with the fit of the second pair, kept them, and sent the first pair back. Something to look into maybe if its not too late.