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260kw (350hp) AWD 2.3 liter turbo, 6 speed manual, 0 to 60 4.7 seconds. licence at risk. Ciao

Gotcha.. it's silk thread. Red is hard to find.. I was counting on you Chuck to fill in the fine details:) I learned a long time ago that I dint need to be very smart to survive, just had to know smart people. Ciao

These are the best......Valpollini, Pete Roper sent me a set and they are perfect. Some kind of metal hybrid gasket with a coating. Dont get too carried away with aircraft piston engine technology as a lot of it is from the dark ages. Conti and lycomings use cotton thread to seal the case joint for goodness sake. Ciao

I wouldnt even venture an estimate and I cant even remember what I paid for mine around 6 years ago. Drop Joe a line and ask about the current price. He did mention to me he's in Italy this week so he may take a few days to reply. Ciao

I have a steel set for the V11 and also for the Daytona engine from Joe Caruso in England but not an email address anymore. He is on linked in though.I dont think he's made them for years but if enough people get together he may run a batch. EDIT Try this... no garantees though. Sent him an email to say Hi and it didnt bounce so far. joe.caruso@ntlworld.com Edit 2....Joe got back to me and he's still making gears, so if anyone is interested drop him a line. Imagine these bad boys in your timing chest. Better than that agricultural chain:) Ciao

Same as mine. I did the mesh mod as well.Bonded mine and its been fine for years. Same as my Ducatis with the mesh mods. Ciao

I don't think you need to remove the paint or damaged clear coat to wrap the tank. Yes true you can wrap over the paint, this is how the car guys do it. Personally I'd get it painted as I dont know how the wrap stands up to fuel spillage over time and most wraps only have around a 4 or 5 year lifespan anyway. Ciao

This is true docc so what I do when I pull any suspension component down is I measure the viscosity of what came out for comparative purposes. All you need is a syringe body and a watch to time the measured amount of oil into a container. The actual numbers dont mean anything but the comparison does. So if your happy with the damping as it is you measure the original oil and compare it to the fresh stuff you're putting in. Prevents the frustration of replacing your original brand of 5W with a different brand of 5W only to find the new stuff is more like 7.5W and the damping isnt to your liking anymore. Ciao

In the many trailers I've owned I've never seen one with suspension worth a damn. Live axle on short stiff leaf springs that are virtually solid. My track bikes are strapped down these days with a rear wheel strap and the front is held in a wheel chock. Roll the bike onto the trailer and into the wheel chock which holds it securely while you fit the rear wheel strap with the straps angled forward to pull the bike into the chock and the bike rides along on its suspension on the trailer. Pulling bikes down hard on their suspensions has long been given up on by those that care about the bikes suspension. Ciao

Transparent plastic coating? Its a painted clear coat as far as I'm aware. Best way to remove paint from a plastic tank is to media blast it. Ciao

Clearly half the foot is missing, a simple toenail wouldnt warrant an internet post surely. Ciao

Is there a diagram of where best to put the relay? I'm searching now through the archives and have found some. Do you know which one you used? Like docc I mounted my mini relays in the headlight shell. Ciao

Believe me they are sturdy enought to hold more than 2 lbs. Maybe that figure is more to do with Guzzi covering it arse with regard to weight balance and distribution and directional stability of the bike than the actual load bearing capacity of the rack. They are by far the best quality and niceset looking rack I've seen for a V11 and are a great hand hold for a pillion. Ciao

I wired my headlight circuit seperately via a pair of mini relays so now the regulator reference voltage stays constant and the handlebar switches dont carry the headlight current. Ciao

I love those old covered bridges. Ciao

Before we get too tied down to reg outputs its important to indicate whether or not the headlights are on or off during the measuring. Headlights on with the Guzzi system pulls the voltage reg sensing circuit down as much as 1 volt resulting in overcharging. Ciao

Must be like me visiting the states and not seeing Jeeps. I swear I see a million more Jeeps here than over there. Maybe Americans are smarter than us. Ciao

Biesel is not refering to the wrinkle finish paint but the satin black of later models. Ciao

Bad news indeed,sigh.I had bought a bit of Daytona engine stuff from them and their service was brilliant. Ciao

I dont think vapour lock will be an issue as the fuel is moving through the lines at a rate that precludes this. I've had bikes that vapour lock and its only ever happened when the bike is stationary fully warmed up on hot days. During normal ops they have been fine. There is an actual calculation for required fuel flow from memory so you can work out for the power you are generating what fuel flow you require and measure what you have with a stop watch and container. Edit.....try this. I havent had time to go through it and it wasnt the one I was thinking of but you get the idea. My back of the envelope calculation for a 100hp engine is 16 litres/hour (gas) so if your taps will flow half each of this you're golden. You should also check the needle valves will flow enough as well of course and the venting is capable. http://blog.cantonracingproducts.com/blog/how_to_estimate_your_engines_fuel_flow Ciao

The flat tappet failures on the Nuovo 8V are I believe spring related, at least that is what I believe to be the root cause and over the last five or six years I've put a lot of time and research into it. Having stopped counting the number of rollerisations we've done once we went past a hundred I can assure you I've had a lot of failed componentry to examine and the pattern of failure is always near identical but the time it takes to occur can vary drastically. At the end of the day though I have not seen one motor go over 25,000 Km without damage, the problem is that unless you know where to look you won't know it's eating itself until it's way, way too late. If anyone wants the full explanation I can write it up again and post it up, I've done it piecemeal before but if you'd like the whole thing from the early history to when I drew my conclusions I can do that. For the last twelve years the CARC bikes and particularly the 8V's have been my muse. I really think they are superb motorcycles and the 8V engine, while not perfect, is certainly a tremendously enjoyable power plant and once the 'Elephant in the corner' of the flat tappet fiasco has been addressed are stone axe reliable. Mapped and tuned correctly they will produce an HONEST 100RWHP and over 70 ft/lbs of torque. Our 1400 motor makes little more in the way of HP but brings mid eighties ft/lbs of torque to the table basically from 3,000 right through to the rev limiter which was lowered from the 9,000 that was being used with the 1200 to 8,250 in respect for the heavier pistons. Note that our figures are almost universally lower than other 'Tuners' claim. This is because we aren't fantasists who put their 'Thumb on the scales'. I'd also like to take this opportunity to apologise to the people who have recently, (And not so recently!) PM'd me about sloppage sheets. I haven't been dropping in to V11.com much and have missed stuff but I've been tied up with what has become our 'Core business' which is 8V's and CARC bikes. Things have recently taken a huge turn for the worse though as my younger employee who was 'Learning the ropes' of Guzzi from me and was what was my 'Succession Plan' for the business recently had a serious crash on his RS125 'Prila and is currently in hospital after being airlifted to Sydney with a broken back. Unfortunately the prognosis is far from rosy. I have my own health issues too, most noticeably fairly serious and rapid onset rheumatoid arthritis which means it's getting really difficult for me to actually work on the tools for any length of time. As such I feel that the days of my business may be numbered but if there are still people after sloppage sheets I'm going to put in an order tomorrow morning for another ten which I'll keep 'On the shelf'. Best way to contact me though is probably via email motomodadotroperatgmaildotcom (you should be able to work that out! Anyway. Take care out there in V11 land! Pete Hey Pete, sorry to hear about you're young employee, hope he make a full or decent recovery. My wife has just been recently diagnosed with your affliction and its been a difficult year or so for her as someone that was at the gym 3 times a week and running half marathons trying to figure what was wrong. All that activity stopped for a year, but she is now diagnosed as of a few months ago and on the mainstream drugs prescribed and is returning back to normality. Hang in there and be patient, positive results will come. Ciao

Hey docc, interesting SG data. I just assumed the water SG would be the greater but there you go. I did calibrate the tester I had by measuring out 10ml of brake fluid checking the reading and then adding water via a syringe at .1ml incriments and it looked accurate. The water mixed with the brake fluid quite well seemingly after a bit of shaking and stiring. Ciao

V11 calls for "Maintenance - Check - Adjustment- Eventual replacement " every 12000 miles or 2 years whichever first. The Matrix has a header "Kilometers covered" then goes on to identify each mileage column in Miles Sound like there's a lot of arse covering at Guzzi:) Ciao

I remembered something today and re visited the Dayton workshop manual. if you look at the servicing schedule it says for the "shaft with drive joints" "In the event of sporting use or regular high speed travel" REPLACE every 15,000 klms. So lube every 5000klms and replace every 15,000. Less regular lubing but more replacing than an O ring chain. Ciao

As an aside docc my Focus reservior cap was leaking slightly a few months back and long story short I was surprised to find a lot of the modern automotive reserviors aren't a totally sealed unit as you might expect from the past or the motorcycle world. I checked carefully the rubber bellows and found a very small slit in the centre and thought I had found the culprit. Turns out the Escape cap seal/bellows was the same! Did some research including a patent search and found this is typical of systems these days on cars with small reserviors. Its a deliberate slit to allow for expansion and contraction that the small reservior bellows cant always accomodate. So there is an avenue for water ingress it seems. Issue on the Focus turned out to be due to over filling and in these non totally sealed systems that can cause annoying leakage around the cap. Ciao