There's about a two-day riding season in August up there, right?
Dress warm!
Dress warm!
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1982 GS1100E V&H "SS" exhaust, APE pods, 1150 oil cooler, 140 speedo, 99.3 rear wheel HP, black engine, '83 red
2016 XL883L sigpic Two-tone blue and white. Almost 42 hp! Status: destroyed, now owned by the insurance company. The hole in my memory starts an hour before the accident and ends 24 hours after. -
The hammer as a piece of rolling artwork."Thought he, it is a wicked world in all meridians; I'll die a pagan."
~Herman Melville
2016 1200 Superlow
1982 CB900fComment
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Get the bike started first time with E85. It started quite easy.
Video clip after first start with untuned, 40% raised gasoline map:
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Sounds nice and smooth and that exhaust burble sounds great!Comment
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Sounds slightly different than my 1150.Comment
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After two days of testing & tuning I get the fuel map good enough. With E85 fuel it runs smoother and when opening throttle more there seems to be more power than last year. More power is probably due to the new cylinder head. I?m pretty happy with the result.
Now I need to take it to dyno before something happens...Comment
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Today I rode 160 km (100 miles) roadtrip to calculate fuel consumption. First 20 and last 40 km`s was motorway and my speed was 130 km/h (80 miles/h).
Fuel consumption was 8.5 liters/km which is about 20% - 25% more than with gasoline.
When I was home I notice oil spots in the subframe, rear wheel and swingarm.
Engine breather hose was dripping oil. That has newer happened before.
I don?t like oil on the frame or rear wheel, so I mede a catch can:
There is drain screw on the bottom. Hope it works...Comment
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How did you manage to keep it below 130kmh?
Did it run well besides the oil breather leak?2@ \'78 GS1000Comment
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Last summer when I using gasoline in my bike there was some heat issues. Especially when riding in town.
This summer with E85 it has been difficult to get engine to normal temperature.
I bought the Mocal oil stat, which I modified a little and installed it to frame tube under #1 exhaust:
Because I blocked one outlet from the oil stat I made t-piece in the "oil in" line:
Now the engine oil by-passes the cooler before it has warmed up to 80 ? CComment
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Today I finally get my bike to the dyno. The results were more than I expect, 173 Nm and 204,8 hp from the rear wheel.
Not so bad with only 0.56 bar boost.
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Apparently you chose the right turbo with plenty of torque down low
Many turbo designs provide a lot of power that comes on very suddenly making the bike undriveable.
Congratulations!sigpicJohn Kat
My bikes: CB 77, GS 1000 ST Cafe Racer with GSXR 1052 engine, GS 1000 ST, XR 41 Replica with GS 1085 engine,
GS 1100 SZ Katana with GS 1135 EFF engine, KTM Superduke 1290 R 2020Comment
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