Oh NO! What have I done! My new KZ1300

some fcr's would help it to breath :evil: !



or perhaps injection would be nice,




leon

Whatever you do--- DON"T let Leon rideit!! - He's hell on those 6's :laugh: :laugh:

fitscott wrote: Whatever you do--- DON"T let Leon rideit!! - He's hell on those 6's :laugh: :laugh:

leon

6 FCR33's and those custom intake manifolds would probably tap my entire engine budget....

Aren't those like $1000 for a set of four...used?

Larry suggested I get new valves. Intake are no problem, they can be found both OE and aftermarket. The exhaust valves are a different story. Other than having custom stainless valves made I searched for OE and aftermarket exhaust valves, and the search went global. A few places in Germany listed some but we're lot of stock. I got lucky, Z-power a UK distributor, still had some Vesrah exhaust valves on hand.

Piston options have been a global effort as well. There are some available from Germany. The cheap "big bore“ kits on e-bay are not an option in my book, though they have a following in the small Honda 4's. Noting is left in stock here in the us. MTC used to make pistons for the 1300's but they won't do them any more. JE will custom forge a set for me for about $1200. Wiseco will make a custom order with minimum of 12 for a little less per set. On whim I called Ross Racing and they actually have the tooling to make pistons of this size, and rings, and pins. They quoted $880 for one set and about 100 less for 3 sets. I will have to check over on the 1300 forums and see if anyone else is interested.

I still have to decide what size, I could go 62.5 to 64mm depending on the availability of rings. Probably stay at 63 or under to leave some meat left in the sleeves. Stock compression ratio is 9.9 to 1 and I could bump it some but I doubt its going to be worth much hp wise.

The 6 bank FCR33's are available from Japan.... for the low, low price of $2,100 and change.

japan.webike.net/products/9638344.html



I also found out the Cosworth in the UK makes race pistons for the 1300's, 63mm bore with 11.5 to 1 compression, that ought to haul ass...

Tyler wrote: The 6 bank FCR33's are available from Japan.... for the low, low price of $2,100 and change.

japan.webike.net/products/9638344.html

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I also found out the Cosworth in the UK makes race pistons for the 1300's, 63mm bore with 11.5 to 1 compression, that ought to haul ass...

:woohoo: Oh yea!

Those carbs would sound fantastic! :woohoo:

Got my head back from Larry..... Damn...





Exhaust Port


Intake Valves are soooo far back


Other Side, man these must have been hard to work in





The head looks fantastic, with a well done mild port job and new valves should run better than new. Great Job Larry, well done man!

More progress, Pulled the oil pan and cleaned the oil pick-up and strainer. I should have taken a picture but the screen was full of silicone, not plugged, but there was a lot of it. Some one used a bunch of it to seal the right side engine cover and some of it made its way into the oil system. I finally finished cleaning up all the damn gasket surfaces too, I hate that job, most tedious thing world but it has to be done.

Didn't find any signs of problems in the oil pan, bottom of the engine and transmission looked fine. I cleaned up all the sludge in the oil pan and painted it.



Spent a day scrubbing the engine cases with MEK, and hit them with some gloss black VHT.

Finally starting to put it back together. Oh and Ross Racing is starting on my pistons.... fun stuff!

Wat kinda paint you use on the engine? If its not baked on fuel ruins it. Epoxy? Enquiring minds wanna know.

I used VHT.

www.vhtpaint.com/products/engineenamel/

I may have to try a heat gun to cure it because the engine probably won't be running until next spring.