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Old Dec 10, 2002 | 02:28 AM
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I have just installed my new axle on the weekend, filed some gears to 0.002 of an inch tolerance the result the axle assembley with the spin of a finger rotates 14 times before it stops. I now have minimum free play with fine tolerances down to manufactures specs, its the best it can be. Total weight savings is 3 pounds and gains a strength of 5 times from original, turbo charged nitrofied Kawi here I come.

All that is needed now is cams and updated CDI is it possible for 100 mph on a 4X4 utility quad this might be the fastest green blurr around.
 
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Old Dec 10, 2002 | 09:32 AM
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Alltoys
It kind of makes a person wonder how you got here, from there. You would not catch my sorry a$$ on a quad doing 100 mph. Old people dont heal fast.
Does your wife fully understand where you are heading?. lmfao, maybe she has been encouraging you as she ups your life insurance.
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Old Dec 10, 2002 | 11:15 AM
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Dude, you better put one of those ugly roll cages on your wheeler if you're gonna do 100mph!! Jeez, I get mine up around 90 kmh and that is PLENTY fast enough!!!! Don't smash it up before July pal!!!! I wanna take that bad boy for a rip too you know!

It only saved three pounds off the stock weight? I thought it would have been more, but the increase in strength is gonna be well worth it. The only problem now is that something else is gonna break!! Better be careful!
 
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Old Dec 11, 2002 | 12:50 AM
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I saved around 7lbs but when I put the wheel brackets and gears back on the weight came back up but it spins so freeeee it is like perpetual motion. Say I never thought of a drag shoot that would look awsome on the back of the Green Machine. When asked what that is for I can grin like a Cheshior Cat sounds interesting.

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Wouldn't it be fun to control the peak threshold of uncontrolability hhhhmmmmm! Now any younge potential horizontal rocketeers??
 
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Old Dec 11, 2002 | 08:49 AM
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titanium? dude...that must have cost some major bucks! thats saweet!
 
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Old Dec 11, 2002 | 01:51 PM
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so alltoys... when`s liftoff??!!! another question. who gets to light the fuse?!
 
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Old Dec 11, 2002 | 02:51 PM
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hey alltoys, what kind of turbo are you using? better get this infromation before you try that 100 mph thing.

oh.... also at 100 mph your helmet starts lifting from the air going over head, like an airplane wing. strap that helmet down tight, and wipe that mud off of it, (the one in the 700 pic), that means someone was riding ahead of you lol.

Have a good christmas!
 
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Old Dec 11, 2002 | 11:02 PM
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Hey fellows life is interesting yes? The major expense for the axle is mostly the material I fortuneatley machined the shaft myself which saved immensly on the price as for the weight I had the scale in kiliograms instead of pounds so the 3 pounds I saved was 6.6 pounds which sounds more like it. To have it made from an after market company would run around $1500 American the stock I used was $450 Canadian then there was my time and that was the big savings.

Scootdog we will have to get together some day you can take my machine for a rip hopefully by that time I can have the drag shute installed. Wouldn't that be a hoot take her up to 100 pull the rip cord, leave an impression I beleive you coined it as leaving an impression of a star fish as butt puckers trying to not leave the seat LOL.

Shotgun I was using a turbo off a chevy sprint but found it had to much lag so I am looking at another one that is more exhaust friendly to a 650. I am trying to find a distributor here in Alberta so I can modify a couple of things this turbo is samller but will deliver a constant 8 lbs boost right from the start so it will eliminate any lag time. At least that is the plan, meanwhile I am going to make a dual manifold to install a single carb this way I can experimeint with larger carbs instead being limited to the dual down draft ones that we have.


If I don't talk to you again have a good Christmas and give the inlaws a hug, well maybe not, ahh give'em a hug too.
 
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Old Dec 13, 2002 | 02:28 AM
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i`m up for that! my life insurance is all paid up!! my **** will be biting some serious vinyl.
after i reach top speed, am i free to walk about the cabin???
 
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Old Dec 13, 2002 | 02:55 AM
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YEP! Anytime!!
 
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