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Did anybody see this?? smoothbores

...but seriously, has anyone used an ultrasonic machine to clean parts like this guy did?
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Ultrasonic is about the best way to clean carbs. It is about the only way to get in and scrub the inside of passageways without removing plugs.
Lemon juice and water is a good cleaner where others say a bit of dish washing detergent is their choice.
 
dardoonk said:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&item=330283985385

HOLY CRAP... $1000 & 22 bids???? WTF? I think I might have to polish mine up and put them on FleaBay..
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Two stuck pilot jets?? That would break the deal for me. 17.5's are kind of small. If you were putting these on a bike with any mods, those would need to be bigger. But I suppose a machine shop could get them out.

It seems that if you polish up these things they go for absurd amounts of money. I'm painting mine black....maybe I could get $2,000.00!! ;)

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....can't I just go to Sudco and buy brand new flatslides for about 3/4 of the cost of those VM's? I know it's not the "purist" way, though.
 
Old school IS cool....the boat in my avatar is a 1988 kevlar Cigarette Top Gun...and it's actually named "Old School"!
 
I hope they kept track of which slides went with which bodies while they took that picture proving they were disassembled correctly.... I agree on the 26's, I'd let mine go for $1500.
 
They dont even look that shiny. I think its his pictures and display that are bringing up the price. I bought my vm29's a year ago. I was the only bidder, real bad pictures and camera angles. But I could just tell that they were decent. $375. A week before that I was bidding on a set that had better pictures but the carbs looked to be in the same condition. I was outbid at $450
 
The smallest new style flatslides is 34 mm GS Carbs

I think Bruce Sauer has a good supply of those old 29s.

Jay
 
Well, I just bought some VM33's for my Beast project. So the VM29's will be for sale. We'll see how much I get. Hopefully lots! :pray:
 
I have a really nice clean set to sell myself. Seems like right now is a good time to sell.
 
Z1 guys will spend any kind of money to restore their bikes. There is nothing that will stand in the way of a Z1 guy and his original restoration project, especially money. Some guys have $10,000 or more tied up in their Z1s, and they aren't even finished yet.

They're nuts.

I think if a fellow who had access to the tools and materials made a run of 500 true to the original Z1 exhaust systems (including stamping the original marks on them), he'd have no problem selling every one of them for $2,000 each or more.
 
Gee, this is reminiscent of the roundcase Ducati crowd. The Borrani rims for the 750SS bring over $3000 each. There are people restamping later $100 rims and claiming them to be early production to try and get the big money.
 
Old Colt said:
Gee, this is reminiscent of the roundcase Ducati crowd. The Borrani rims for the 750SS bring over $3000 each. There are people restamping later $100 rims and claiming them to be early production to try and get the big money.
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Reminds me of the car guys - restamping numbers on the engine blocks.

About 10 years ago I had an all original '68 ElCamino with L78 engine package (rectangular port heads, M21 trans, 12 bolt posi rear end, etc). Saw an ad in Hemming's about some guy selling numbers matching engine blocks. Called him and he told me they stamp engine blocks with chassis numbers all the time.:eek: Needless to say it really ****ed me off that people are doing this when it devalues my car that was truly original.
 
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