Car Enthusiast Club [Now Motorcycle friendly!] - First thread to 150k! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Noctus]

On 4/8/2020 at 2:55 PM, Ducati888 said:

Where's my Moto peeps at? 

 

My 04 B12 

Taken not long before i replaced the headlight with a new LED assembly and turn signals with sequential LEDS

[Bananasplit_00]

So I got to work on my GS500E, needs a new chain and sprockets and I decided I might as well do pads and break disk while I'm at it.

 

Put the bike up on the center stand and got the rear wheel out real quick. Took the cover for the front sprocket off and found hell on earth. I dug out about two big hands worth of gunk with a rubber/sand texture from there:

Sprocket was also almost just gone, looks thin enough to bend with your fingers on some of the teeth.

This is after the clean:

 

They are all really bad pictures, sorry about that...

 

Glad I cleaned that out, should have swapped chain and sprockets a long time ago. Chain was actually in alright condition but the sprockets are GONE.

 

Going to tackle removing the rear brake disk and rear sprocket, they have been soaked with penetrating oil and left over night so hopefully they will budge today, they really didn't yesterday. Going to get the ugga dugga on them if I can find a 14mm socket for it, otherwise it's going to be just a massive breaker bar

[iDeFecZx]

4 hours ago, vf1000ride said:

So being I'm out of the loop on newer turbo cars.  What is a stock boost figure for modern engines?  I'm sure it varies by engine/brand.  Was just curious as my '87 Buick ran 14 stock and I'm currently running 16psi.

My mini runs about 9-10psi stock.

[Noctus]

41 minutes ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

So I got to work on my GS500E, needs a new chain and sprockets and I decided I might as well do pads and break disk while I'm at it.

 

Put the bike up on the center stand and got the rear wheel out real quick. Took the cover for the front sprocket off and found hell on earth. I dug out about two big hands worth of gunk with a rubber/sand texture from there:

Sprocket was also almost just gone, looks thin enough to bend with your fingers on some of the teeth.

This is after the clean:

 

They are all really bad pictures, sorry about that...

 

Glad I cleaned that out, should have swapped chain and sprockets a long time ago. Chain was actually in alright condition but the sprockets are GONE.

 

Going to tackle removing the rear brake disk and rear sprocket, they have been soaked with penetrating oil and left over night so hopefully they will budge today, they really didn't yesterday. Going to get the ugga dugga on them if I can find a 14mm socket for it, otherwise it's going to be just a massive breaker bar

Im dreading having to change my chain snd sprockets on my bandit lol (pic above) due to all that type of gunk lol

[JoaoPRSousa]

3 hours ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

- GS500E snip -

 

Holy balls, that thing really need some cleaning 

I've wanted a GS500E for a while now because I thought they were under the 35kW limit for the A2 license. Turns out they're rated at like 38kW

 

 

Also, a Yamaha XT660Z from the 90s is rated at 35.3, so, yeah, fml

[PandaCopyRight]

18 hours ago, bcredeur97 said:

I'm wondering if this is the forum glitching again and he saw the wrong picture or something. Lol

im so confused,

I saw a reply to a renault clio ... about a 2008 gti ...
1st thought in my brain that hit was a peugeot 2008 gti since that would also be french .. but that doesnt exist ... so maybe they meant a 208 gti? nope ... a 2008 Golf GTI

why would someone mention a 2008 golf gti when some said that they will buy a clio?

 
This being a 208 GTi

[MadyTehWolfie]

8 hours ago, vf1000ride said:

So being I'm out of the loop on newer turbo cars.  What is a stock boost figure for modern engines?  I'm sure it varies by engine/brand.  Was just curious as my '87 Buick ran 14 stock and I'm currently running 16psi.

Varies based on the car. What's high boost for one is bone stock for another. My Ecoboost ran 20psi stock my gti was 10ish stock. After modding them my Ecoboost ran 25psi and my gti ran anywhere between 22-24psi. 

4 hours ago, iDeFecZx said:

 

 

[iDeFecZx]

2 hours ago, PandaCopyRight said:

 

why would someone mention a 2008 golf gti when some said that they will buy a clio?

 
This being a 208 GTi
 

Eh, I has a photo of both

[vetali]

10 hours ago, vf1000ride said:

So being I'm out of the loop on newer turbo cars.  What is a stock boost figure for modern engines?  I'm sure it varies by engine/brand.  Was just curious as my '87 Buick ran 14 stock and I'm currently running 16psi.

Whatever the engineerds decide. I want to say my civic is 16-17psi stock. People up them on tunes but I don't really see the need. It makes enough power for commuting and passing people. New meme around here is to go slow as fuck on a 2 lane to bait people to pass you so they can speed up to "race" you. Its usually shitboxes that my car has no issues with.

[vf1000ride]

That's cool on the boost figures, I had thought about it and can't say I have ridden in anything newer (10 years or less) with a stock turbo or still at stock settings.  It's hard to compare my cars turbo setup with anything newer as well just to how much engine design and fuel systems have advanced in the past 30+ years.  I have found it funny since owning it that like anything in this world the myth and legend very rarely lives up to the reality of it.  The '87 Grand National was touted as the fastest car made in the USA back then and you get wrapped up in that legend.  Once you own one you realize that fastest for 1987 wasn't a very high bar to reach and that I could lose a race to several types of modern bone stock v-6 powered four door sedans depending on driver and conditions.  Here's a picture of my engine for the fun of it.

[Bitter]

5 minutes ago, vf1000ride said:

That's cool on the boost figures, I had thought about it and can't say I have ridden in anything newer (10 years or less) with a stock turbo or still at stock settings.  It's hard to compare my cars turbo setup with anything newer as well just to how much engine design and fuel systems have advanced in the past 30+ years.  I have found it funny since owning it that like anything in this world the myth and legend very rarely lives up to the reality of it.  The '87 Grand National was touted as the fastest car made in the USA back then and you get wrapped up in that legend.  Once you own one you realize that fastest for 1987 wasn't a very high bar to reach and that I could lose a race to several types of modern bone stock v-6 powered four door sedans depending on driver and conditions.  Here's a picture of my engine for the fun of it.

Fast back then was pretty slow, the 5.0 Mustang and Firebird/Camaro were 200hp and did like mid 14 1/4 miles?

[MadyTehWolfie]

1 hour ago, vf1000ride said:

That's cool on the boost figures, I had thought about it and can't say I have ridden in anything newer (10 years or less) with a stock turbo or still at stock settings.  It's hard to compare my cars turbo setup with anything newer as well just to how much engine design and fuel systems have advanced in the past 30+ years.  I have found it funny since owning it that like anything in this world the myth and legend very rarely lives up to the reality of it.  The '87 Grand National was touted as the fastest car made in the USA back then and you get wrapped up in that legend.  Once you own one you realize that fastest for 1987 wasn't a very high bar to reach and that I could lose a race to several types of modern bone stock v-6 powered four door sedans depending on driver and conditions.  Here's a picture of my engine for the fun of it.

With the tech advancing we have modern 4 bangers with turbos getting into the 4mid to high 300hp and some in the 400hp range at the wheels on stock turbos

[PhantomJaguarr]

Recently bought the proper microfiber cleaning towels for drying my car after washing. Definitely going to take my time to help pass time and forget about current events. Get frustrated seeing yellow pollen particles on black paint this time of year.

[Noctus]

2 hours ago, PhantomJaguar77 said:

Recently bought the proper microfiber cleaning towels for drying my car after washing. Definitely going to take my time to help pass time and forget about current events. Get frustrated seeing yellow pollen particles on black paint this time of year.

LPT: paint it yellow

[PhantomJaguarr]

19 minutes ago, Noctus said:

LPT: paint it yellow

A yellow KIA?  Maybe the Stinger would look nice in yellow but I don't have that one

[hydrochloric]

On 4/12/2020 at 12:06 AM, vf1000ride said:

So being I'm out of the loop on newer turbo cars.  What is a stock boost figure for modern engines?  I'm sure it varies by engine/brand.  Was just curious as my '87 Buick ran 14 stock and I'm currently running 16psi.

Define "newer".  Most 2.0 WRXs are like 14, for example, but my '93 S4 stock was 15, with an overboost of 17.  Now I have it running 25, but that's not what Audi intended lol.

[hydrochloric]

22 hours ago, vf1000ride said:

That's cool on the boost figures, I had thought about it and can't say I have ridden in anything newer (10 years or less) with a stock turbo or still at stock settings.  It's hard to compare my cars turbo setup with anything newer as well just to how much engine design and fuel systems have advanced in the past 30+ years.  I have found it funny since owning it that like anything in this world the myth and legend very rarely lives up to the reality of it.  The '87 Grand National was touted as the fastest car made in the USA back then and you get wrapped up in that legend.  Once you own one you realize that fastest for 1987 wasn't a very high bar to reach and that I could lose a race to several types of modern bone stock v-6 powered four door sedans depending on driver and conditions.  Here's a picture of my engine for the fun of it.

Around the late 2000's there was a real surge in performance.  Look at a 1999-2010 Mustang 4.6: 260-300HP.  2011? 420HP, give or take.  Same story with the Camaro: 2001, 330HP.  2010: 430HP.

 

Plus the 80's were still coming out of the smog choked engines, so we were still figuring out how to make power again.

[TVwazhere]

On 4/11/2020 at 8:14 PM, chaozbandit said:

 

I like those wheels and caliper color combo  

[Bananasplit_00]

On 4/12/2020 at 1:28 PM, JoaoPRSousa said:

 

Holy balls, that thing really need some cleaning 

I've wanted a GS500E for a while now because I thought they were under the 35kW limit for the A2 license. Turns out they're rated at like 38kW

 

 

Also, a Yamaha XT660Z from the 90s is rated at 35.3, so, yeah, fml

Mine is registered as a 25kw import

 

It's def not restricted

 

On 4/12/2020 at 10:34 AM, Noctus said:

Im dreading having to change my chain snd sprockets on my bandit lol (pic above) due to all that type of gunk lol

It wasn't all that hard to get out, but it sure took a while. Really nice to have it done

 

Here is how I had to leave the bike because the weather turned way wayyyy to bad to ride(storm winds, snow and near freezing air temps). Also found that when I started it with fuel in it it started spewing gas everywhere. I suspect the floats were stuck, gave the float bowls a few knocks and unpunched a vacuum line and it both fixed my petcock back to normal function and stopped the fuel problem as far as I could tell Those carbs deserve a proper rebuild though

 

[JoaoPRSousa]

4 hours ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

Mine is registered as a 25kw import

 

It's def not restricted

 

I could look up some of those too 

[Bananasplit_00]

21 minutes ago, JoaoPRSousa said:

 

I could look up some of those too 

Loads came in to Sweden from Germany during the 90s, the GS500E was popular all over Europe afaik

[chaozbandit]

lmao what a stupid way to get yourself fired

 

[Ducati888]

On 4/12/2020 at 12:49 AM, Bananasplit_00 said:

So I got to work on my GS500E, needs a new chain and sprockets and I decided I might as well do pads and break disk while I'm at it.

 

Put the bike up on the center stand and got the rear wheel out real quick. Took the cover for the front sprocket off and found hell on earth. I dug out about two big hands worth of gunk with a rubber/sand texture from there:

Sprocket was also almost just gone, looks thin enough to bend with your fingers on some of the teeth.

This is after the clean:

 

They are all really bad pictures, sorry about that...

 

Glad I cleaned that out, should have swapped chain and sprockets a long time ago. Chain was actually in alright condition but the sprockets are GONE.

 

Going to tackle removing the rear brake disk and rear sprocket, they have been soaked with penetrating oil and left over night so hopefully they will budge today, they really didn't yesterday. Going to get the ugga dugga on them if I can find a 14mm socket for it, otherwise it's going to be just a massive breaker bar

You would be surprised at how nasty it gets behind the front sprocket cover. All that chain lub gotta go somewhere. That front sprocket of yours looked like a throwing star. I have seen them missing teeth and chains break and wack the side cover and some instances the case, which is not a cheap fix. Every bike owner should do regular maintenance to their chain and, cleaning and proper lubrication goes a long way, as well as getting to inspect those components often. I would recommend at minimum every 500 miles to clean and lub the chain, obviously the more frequently it is done the cleaner it stays and more life you get out of it. 

    Cheers  

[The1Dickens]

On 4/12/2020 at 8:07 AM, vf1000ride said:

That's cool on the boost figures,

Just a tidbit of information: psi figures don't mean anything without the compressor specs. 10psi for one turbo/super could be more power than 20psi for another.

[bcredeur97]

25 minutes ago, The1Dickens said:

Just a tidbit of information: psi figures don't mean anything without the compressor specs. 10psi for one turbo/super could be more power than 20psi for another.

whatcha mean bro? 100 psi I know what I have