1975 Gl1000 Heads off

Not Bad. I think I can live with this.

Dear Apple, can I have my "swipe to unlock" back?

Just when I thought (aside from game emulation) I could happily move away from jailbreaking you go ahead an pull this move out of Tim Cooks ass. Really? What focus group of hipster douche-bags did you test this on? At first it didn't bother me much. That's why I'm late on this topic. Its getting increasingly frustrating. Also, as a guy who works with my hands, the touch ID unlock is practically useless. Is button pushing the future? I think not. If the ios10 jailbreak gives me an option to swipe, I am gladly doing it. That's the thing people that are against jailbreaking don't understand... it's the little things.

1975 GL1000K0 initial teardown.

This is how I got it, as it sat, since 1998.

Scary intake valve.

Some one went down on the right side. The aftermarket crash bars dented the frame tube.

This was the worst of the rust and really isnt too bad.

These are the final steps in removing the frame from the engine. 

Now that thats over, lets play a game called "Cylinder Bore or Sewer Pipe?".

Yeah, that's a boroscope snapshot. Not looking good.

1975 GL1000

150$ and A clean title. First year 1975 GL1000

Corvair Roof Rack

I made a roof rack.

It started as a brand new pallet that once held a xerox machine for shipment. I have a new found respect for people who make things from reclaimed pallet wood. It is very difficult to get clean planks without them splitting.

I used danish oil and then lightly torched the planks.

The roof rack itself, is a pre "NRS" quick n easy setup.

I used stainless 1/4" hardware.

The cross beam planks are reclaimed cedar.

Corvair Pushrod tubes, seals, and gaskets.

I won nearly 2 sets of "B" stock Chrome Push-rod Tubes on ebay for net to nothing, knowing that I had to do all the push-rod seals. Yesterday, I tackled the job. Installed the chrome tubes, seals, powder coated the valve covers, and cold set the rockers. For the powder, I mixed a bit of Prismatic's Sparks Blue with their Wintergreen. It was a guessing game, but they came out really nice. I did the cold set as per the book, and driving it all day today was great. No valve noise at all. No more oil leaks either.

Corvair Equal Length Big Bore exhaust.

I'm an exhaust guy. Its what I do. It would not benefit me in anyway to leave the exhaust on the corvair alone. Not only is the pipe that's on there restrictive, it was only meant to be temporary anyway.  I wanted to try my hand at something equal length, and larger bore. Nothing crazy. I had this dynomax muffler laying around so I blasted it and powder-coated it that zoomies purple color. I also had a v-band clamp and flanges and figured it would be nice to be able to quickly remove the muffler to do valve adjustments and whatnot. The system still starts at 1.5" because I do not have flanges that work for the 1.75" pipe. This is fine for me though as its only an 80hp model. If I had the right flanges I could make the complete primary tubes 1.75". The "y" pipe, or collector is 2" into 2.25OD which then goes into a 2.5" bend which is realistically still only 2.25" in the radius and into the muffler. The primary tubes fit snugly into the 2" and all is welded. The muffler outlet and tail is 2.25". At no point, other than the immediate entrance to my "atomic header" is the diameter less than 1.75" ID.

Here's what came off...

Here are my supplies.

My fabbed collector.

Inside.

Starting to get an i dea of what the hell I was doing.

The plan continues to come together.

One solid serpent.

Some of that good VHT stuff.

On the car.

Shamless Holesaw.

In truth it sounds very similar to what it did before, but it definitely breathes better. It almost like someone was standing on its chest and now it just flows really well. There is a significant gain in the higher rpms. The major thing here is that with the suspension completely unloaded the swing arm will hit the pipe. I had to tuck it up high enough so the bottom crossover is still the lowest point. I like it! A LOT.