Nuak International from Toronto has a pretty sweet looking shipment of bikes coming in from Japan. Most this stuff is to new to race but there are some nice older RG 400s. I have never dealt with them personally but I keep my eyes on what they are bringing in from time to time. If I had the money I'...

I might use these rotors I had off another bike. Just so happens the bolt pattern it the same. I could drill and tap the other side and run a duel disk setup on the front.

Wow that is one Beautiful machine!

Thanks Tips. But I'll try my best to keep you behind me, or at least in my sights. I'm going to be ringing my little RGVs neck. I'll actually prob be the last one around or somewhere in amongst the stragglers. I am going to give it my best tho and have some fun.

My Heart will never be filled Steve, but thank you. It's one idea after the next. If I ever painted someones bike I might not want to give it back, I kinda get a bit attached. I need to get the projects I have finished before I move on to the next one. The RGV 250 is ready, Daytona before Shannonvil...

It's just decals, I would hate to paint it and do all that work and then drop it. It is a race bike. I don't think I am that skilled to be doing work like that yet.

I threw the shocks and swingarm on today, they are just sitting on there right now. I wanted to see how it looked and check clearance and fitment with the reservoir. The old RD Shocks were toast, I had these ones so I used them.

Thanks Marc, I will make sure I look into that. Don't want that gummy crap in the engine.

Mike

I finished off the porting and was just about sick of doing it. I decided to throw the engine back together and get on with moving forward. I stripped off the Yellow paint that someone had put on the lower forks. I ended up polishing them up as well. I have been working on the rear shocks and gettin...

Once I was happy enough with the frame I painted it with heavy duty primer and a coat of black. By then the engine case was ready to go back in.

I continued on and polished the cases and everything that was bare aluminum.

I know you are not suppose to polish the intake, but I did anyways. I can't help myself when I see a nice spot or aluminum.

I took the engine apart to see what it looked like inside. Everything seamed tight and good but I had it apart so I started to port and polish the exhaust. I mildly cleaned up the transfer ports and intake.

I started by ripping everything off the bike and cutting every tab and piece of metal off that was not going to be needed. The gas tanks was far to long so I shortened it up and glassed it back together. It holds water so I hope it will hold gas.

I was looking around for another winter project to work on that I would be able to race for next year. I only have one bike in one class and wanted to be able to get more track time. A good friend of mine had a few bikes in need of some TLC and told me to pick one. We decided that his old Daytona he...