Friday, August 10, 2012
Kawasaki KZ400
Kawasaki KZ400
t rear frame with repositioned shock mounts. The engine was rebuilt, and a new battery box and wiring system were installed. That tight-fitting rear fender is a 5” Triumph unit, but the tank and bars are refurbished stock items. A rich, vintage-themed paint job is the icing on the cake, courtesy of Welok Studio and the Rocket 88 Hot Rod Speed Shop.Muy bonita.
PS: A warm welcome to our latest advertiser, the makers of the DVD Why They Ride. It’s the story of two brothers exploring their fellow motorcyclists’ passion for riding on one of most beautiful and challenging roads in the USA: The infamous Dragon at Deals Gap.
Thursday, August 9, 2012
Dillon Brothers Harley-Davidson in Omaha, NE | Local New Harley Dealership Locator at WeHaveHarleys.com
Dillon Brothers Harley-Davidson in Omaha, NE | Local New Harley Dealership Locator at WeHaveHarleys.com
3838 HWS Cleveland Blvd.
Omaha, NE 68116-3047
PH: (402) 289-5556
FX: (402) 289-1931
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Dillon Brothers Harley-Davidson
3838 HWS Cleveland Blvd.
Omaha, NE 68116-3047
PH: (402) 289-5556
FX: (402) 289-1931
Visit Website
Motorcycle Events in Omaha, NE
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Get information below on Biker events in Omaha,NE. You can find many different meets near you. Are you on the road? We have events happening all around the country! Omaha,NE motorcycle meets.
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| 08/17/12 | Indianola Bike Night www.bikedowntoitown.com/ | 122.5 |
| 08/25/12 | Shake Rattle N Roll | 140.1 |
| 08/25/12 | Blue River Bike Rally tribesmenmc.org | 65.3 |
| 09/15/12 | Military an Needy Ia Family's Toy Run www.alr737.com | 109.4 |
| 09/22/12 | St. Joseph Bikers for Babies St. Joseph Bikers for Babies | 116.6 |
| 08/01/13 | Across the Border Raid Motorcycle Rally www.acrosstheborderraid.com | 75.3 |
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Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Metricfest 2012 UPDATES – Dillon Brothers Event News | Biker News
Metricfest 2012 UPDATES – Dillon Brothers Event News | Biker News
- Here is a lonk to the event photos from 2012 Metricfest Vintage Motorcycle Show and Swap meet…
Craigslist Omha, NE
Just a couple bikes from Dillon Brothers on craigslist in Omaha...
2006 XLH1200C (SPORTSTER® CUSTOM) (Dillon Brothers Harley Davidson) $6995
2006 XLH1200C (SPORTSTER® CUSTOM) Sportster 15,646 Miles Black/White **All Trades Welcome** **Financing Available** Dillon Brothers Harley...
TheSamba.com :: View topic - "RARE" supercharger
TheSamba.com :: View topic - "RARE" supercharger
| Bvilletom wrote: |
| I noticed this thread on the VW site (The Samba) and then again in LSR.com by Keith LeBlanc. I raced a blown Honda S-90 in the seventies for 2 years with the same smog pump (blower) at Bonneville. I worked for Porsche & VW then & these little blowers came to the U.S. on ’68 or ’69 912 Porsches as a smog pump. I wondered then why a U.S. made pump came from Germany on a new Porsche 912 but looking back it was probably a stop-gap measure to make the car meet tightening smog laws. They were driven at about 2:1 with a vee belt on the 912’s and they didn’t live too long (20-30k miles) spinning up to about 12k rpm. What happened was the bearings in the gears ran out of oil and it seized up and broke the belt. It is just a small roots blower with straight steel lobes and sealed bearings at one end. We threw a lot of them away and most owners didn’t put them back on in the Midwest. They didn’t appear to be something you could rebuild. You should be able to find one at some small old Porsche shops. On the S-90 I drove it with a small chain on the generator side at about 1:1, and that was too much boost. It would make 20psi very quickly. Trying to supercharge a single-cylinder small motor is very difficult. It becomes a rhythmic, surging, pulsing, tuning nightmare. I tried blow-through, draw-through, long manifolds, very long manifolds, short ones, and all kinds of plenums. The surge was very violent. It accelerated like a 350cc, really pulling hard, and the next second it would shut off – about throwing you over the handlebars. It felt like the carb quit flowing air momentarily. We finally got it reasonable by making a plenum out of ½ of a propane torch cylinder with Homelite pyramid reed valves on each end to keep the charge going in the right direction. There was another guy from (I think) Riverside CA. doing the same thing and I think his name was Fletcher Izzard, also with an S-90. I had no problems at all with the blower. I would say it’s not going to pressurize much more than a 200cc 4 stroke motor because it can’t flow enough volume of air. I ported mine a little bit. The man that rode my bike was Mike McCann (Lisbon IA) who is the man with the large white sun block on his nose pushing Burt Munroe off the line in the out-takes of The World’s Fastest Indian movie. I then was the young guy hanging out at the old Chevy garage in Wendover during Speed Week listening to all these old guys, Burt, Mike, Rollie Free, and others drinking beer and bench racing - telling tall stories. It doesn’t get any better than that! Bvilletom Tom Bruch |
Monday, August 6, 2012
Dirt Cheap Supercharger - Turbo Motorcycles, Hot Rods Bikes,Turbo Bikes,Suzuki,
Dirt Cheap Supercharger - Turbo Motorcycles, Hot Rods Bikes,Turbo Bikes,Suzuki,
OK, here it is. Please don't laugh until you've tried this, it really works. We've used these things for many different jobs where we needed a lot of volume at low- to moderate pressure levels, and they almost always work out very well.
All you need is a "smog pump"! I assume everyone knows what I am referring to. In the USA, at least, almost every new car has been required to have one of these since around 1970, (by government regulations) to pump air into the exhaust manifolds, which supposedly facilitates more efficient conversion of the unburned hydrocarbons as the mixture passes through the catalytic converter.
If we build them into a machine, we by them new, but there are piles of them in junk yards which you can actually
get for as little as $5.00 each. People don't realize just how efficient these little pumps are. At 8,000 rpm you can feel a strong air blast from a one inch pipe attached to one of these standing over twenty five feet away, they will actually produce up to sixty pounds or more (for a VERY short time), and if you block the air flow completely the pump will stop a five horsepower electric motor.
Most of them take in air though an impeller right behind the drive pulley, which is fine for most purposes, but some are equipped with a separate inlet port complete with a small air filtering device,- which can prove useful in certain circumstances.
You can even hook these things up "back to back", and the first one will drive the second,- with amazing efficiency. If you get the kind equipped with both inlet and outlet ports, you can the make a closed loop and either one will drive the other,- in either direction. There's a novel way to transmit power! If you do try this, be sure to include an intercooler in the plumbing,- the only thing I've found that will ruin these pumps, is heat!
Some of the pumps I'm describing have more capacity than others. I like to play with the ones from 350 cid Chevrolet police cars, or 454 cid trucks. It takes four to six of these to provide ample boost for the average V8, but one or two should suffice for most motorcycle engines. I built a setup using these on a small V8 once, and used a automotive air conditioner pump, electric clutch & pulley, so that it was not necessary to wast fuel driving the arrangement until it was needed.
90% of the pump body is aluminum, so they are relatively light, and it's not difficult to polish them up and radically alter their appearance. By the time you've done that, and added a aluminum timing pulley,- no one will ever guess what it is/was, or how little you have invested.
Be careful how much intake pressure you apply to a high compression engine. You probably shoudn't try to go over 8 - 10 pounds on any engine with a 9 :1 compression ratio or higher. We attached one of these to a friend's son's go-cart engine (Briggs & Stratton) and the power increase was very impressive,-- the kid decided he'd like even more power, and changed to a larger primary pulley. I'm not sure if it was the extra compression or detonation, but it didn't run very long after that before the complete cylinder assembly separated and exploded off the engine block (no kidding!),-- kind of reminded me of pictures I've seen of Blown(up) top fuel drag engines.
If anyone is not familiar with these types of pumps, or has any trouble understanding how they can be attached,- driven, etc..., let me know, and I'll post a photograph of one mounted on a prototyping test setup.Steven A. Richmond Sr
richmond@RICHMONDLABS.COM
Dirt Cheap Supercharger
By Steven A. Richmond Sr.
OK, here it is. Please don't laugh until you've tried this, it really works. We've used these things for many different jobs where we needed a lot of volume at low- to moderate pressure levels, and they almost always work out very well.
All you need is a "smog pump"! I assume everyone knows what I am referring to. In the USA, at least, almost every new car has been required to have one of these since around 1970, (by government regulations) to pump air into the exhaust manifolds, which supposedly facilitates more efficient conversion of the unburned hydrocarbons as the mixture passes through the catalytic converter.
If we build them into a machine, we by them new, but there are piles of them in junk yards which you can actually
get for as little as $5.00 each. People don't realize just how efficient these little pumps are. At 8,000 rpm you can feel a strong air blast from a one inch pipe attached to one of these standing over twenty five feet away, they will actually produce up to sixty pounds or more (for a VERY short time), and if you block the air flow completely the pump will stop a five horsepower electric motor.
Most of them take in air though an impeller right behind the drive pulley, which is fine for most purposes, but some are equipped with a separate inlet port complete with a small air filtering device,- which can prove useful in certain circumstances.
You can even hook these things up "back to back", and the first one will drive the second,- with amazing efficiency. If you get the kind equipped with both inlet and outlet ports, you can the make a closed loop and either one will drive the other,- in either direction. There's a novel way to transmit power! If you do try this, be sure to include an intercooler in the plumbing,- the only thing I've found that will ruin these pumps, is heat!
Some of the pumps I'm describing have more capacity than others. I like to play with the ones from 350 cid Chevrolet police cars, or 454 cid trucks. It takes four to six of these to provide ample boost for the average V8, but one or two should suffice for most motorcycle engines. I built a setup using these on a small V8 once, and used a automotive air conditioner pump, electric clutch & pulley, so that it was not necessary to wast fuel driving the arrangement until it was needed.
90% of the pump body is aluminum, so they are relatively light, and it's not difficult to polish them up and radically alter their appearance. By the time you've done that, and added a aluminum timing pulley,- no one will ever guess what it is/was, or how little you have invested.
Be careful how much intake pressure you apply to a high compression engine. You probably shoudn't try to go over 8 - 10 pounds on any engine with a 9 :1 compression ratio or higher. We attached one of these to a friend's son's go-cart engine (Briggs & Stratton) and the power increase was very impressive,-- the kid decided he'd like even more power, and changed to a larger primary pulley. I'm not sure if it was the extra compression or detonation, but it didn't run very long after that before the complete cylinder assembly separated and exploded off the engine block (no kidding!),-- kind of reminded me of pictures I've seen of Blown(up) top fuel drag engines.
If anyone is not familiar with these types of pumps, or has any trouble understanding how they can be attached,- driven, etc..., let me know, and I'll post a photograph of one mounted on a prototyping test setup.
richmond@RICHMONDLABS.COM
'81 kz440: bobber --> cafe
'81 kz440: bobber --> cafe
alright, so progress has been slow lately, but last night i went to my buddy's place who's welding up the monoshock mounts for me and we put in some good work! 2-3 more hours on it this coming saturday should see it FINALLY finished!! i forgot my camera, so i didn't get any pics of the work. however, we pulled out the piece of wood i was using to hold the rear up (as seen in previous pics) so we could get in there to weld some stuff, and my buddy snapped these pics with his phone of what it would look like with a serious bob job, haha. bobbers were my first love, what first got me interested in modding bikes, so it was tempting to see it like this. however, i'm way too far into my cafe planning to even consider changing directions, so it'll have to wait for another build! looks sweet though, in my opinion...
anyhow, i also got some more little bits to install soon:
lowbrow customs baffles...
alright, so progress has been slow lately, but last night i went to my buddy's place who's welding up the monoshock mounts for me and we put in some good work! 2-3 more hours on it this coming saturday should see it FINALLY finished!! i forgot my camera, so i didn't get any pics of the work. however, we pulled out the piece of wood i was using to hold the rear up (as seen in previous pics) so we could get in there to weld some stuff, and my buddy snapped these pics with his phone of what it would look like with a serious bob job, haha. bobbers were my first love, what first got me interested in modding bikes, so it was tempting to see it like this. however, i'm way too far into my cafe planning to even consider changing directions, so it'll have to wait for another build! looks sweet though, in my opinion...
anyhow, i also got some more little bits to install soon:
lowbrow customs baffles...
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