I don't know how many people on here know it, but Wayne is a drag racer from way back when. He ran gasser and Funny car.

He still tunes for a guy out of the south, in Pro Mod In believe.

The Alabamian was a rear engined funny car that only ran a couple of times, as Wayne had a bad wreck, and the car was totaled.

The Super Goldenrod was a gasser that Wayne match raced during the 1960's to 70's.

I believe Wayne won 2 Wally's during NHRA competition.

Does anyone happen to have any paint codes for modern paints that approximate the colors the factory used?  The current bike I am working on was moron, and I am thinking of returning it to that color.  Most of the bike had been rattle canned black over the years, but under the tail light housing and foot pads is the original color, albeit, not in great shape.  I may have a paint supply house try to scan the back side of the housing and see what they can come up with.

I was doing a little prep work on an engine today when I came across something I had not seen before.  I recently had Wayne sleeve  a 150cc cylinder back to a 125cc size.  I was test fitting the cylinder to the block, but the cylinder was too big to fit in the block spigot!  WTF, I said to myself.  I then pulled out some other cylinders I had and started measuring.  Sure enough, the 150cc cylinders are cast larger at the bottom.  The two engine blocks I have are 125cc. Pictures below tell the story.  What I ended up doing was using a die grinder to open up the block to accept the cylinder.


Notice one of the blocks has a step cut, the other doesn't. 

Can I paint the magneto laminated "spider" that holds the coils?  I have one that was rusty, so I glass beaded it clean. Will this cause an issue with grounding or anything like that?

As I have been rebuilding 2 auto clutches for projects, one being a single track and the other a double track, I thought I would post a few pictures of each. I have also identified 4 different variations of auto clutches used on the 2 wheel bikes, and a different one used on the late model trucks.  This is not including the Salisbury unit used on a few of the earliest automatic trucks.

Picture #1:  An overview of the 2 I am working on.  Since track on left, double on right. Notice the 2 retaining rings on the double track. These are not used on the single track and I have had the pulley walk out on a single track clutch, so it seems this was a necessary improvement.

#2-4  Notice the difference in the drive pulley. The single track uses bearings while the double uses a bushing.  I feel this was an attempt to save money and a downgrade.

#5-6  Back side of drive pulleys.  Single track used a bolt-on steel plate whereas double was cast into pulley.

#7-8  Early vs late style idler.  Not sure reason for change, they both work equally well.

The dates for Portland 2017, according to the FaceBook page are 7/20-24.  I just booked my stay at The Holiday Inn!

Looking for a Wico backing plate and spider.  If anyone has one they want to part with, please let me know.  Thanks!