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Thanks for the tips Jaap!

I agreed with you Gritman, it was pleasant service by Moto Corsa. A completion race? Are you kidding me? Cant you read that it took 2-3 months for parts to arrive at my place. LOL Love to see your work though.

I agreed with you Gritman, it was pleasant service by Moto Corsa. A completion race? Are you kidding me? Cant you read that it took 2-3 months for parts to arrive at my place. LOL Love to see your work though.

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The shipment

Hi helicopterjim, Haven’t signed in for a long time (almost a year LOL). I hope you still interested to know my Daytona progress. Not a lot have come to pass since my last post. But most importantly after one year of waiting I have received a replacement engine last month . Well, more of a donor bike actually. Write it in point form, to shorts long story:- After taking down the engine and tranny, found out they are in really bad condition. Start finding new/used/recond parts, bits and pieces thru Internet. Stumbled upon used Moto Guzzi Centauro 97’ in Moto Corsa Limited’s website. After hard thinking, went for the bike instead of accumulating parts by parts individually. Proved to be a lot cheaper. Contacted Mike of Moto Corsa, telling him my problem and what I needed. Suggesting to him that I will buy the road legal/worthy Centauro if he can break down the bike into pieces/parts (more on that later) and put them in a single crate ready to be shipped. Ask him to let all the fairings, gas tank and frame behind. Thought it can save the crate size since I was afraid of the expensive UK-Malaysia shipping cost that I have to bear. I don’t need those anyway. He agreed with no EXTRA charges for disassembling labor but asked £100 for the crate fabrication. I guess the parts I left behind will be Moto Corsa’s token for stripping the bike down for FOC. After nearly two months, Mike said the loaded crate ready for shipping. Was told the sea-freight shipping cost will be around £200! If only I knew, will definitely bring the whole parts here and pay Mike for breaking down the bike. LOL About two and a half month later, crate arrived at my home. Upon unscrewing the crate, found out that Moto Corsa did an excellent job disassembling, labeling, wrapping, and boxing all the parts. The engine was tied down to a wooden plate so I won’t rock. A lot of foams, bubbles and shredded paper were used to stack the parts neatly. With the running engine and tranny assured, just began the bodywork modification last week…..still a looooong way to go for the cafe looks So why did I insist in breaking down the Centauro into parts and pieces? Well, in Malaysia any whole/complete vehicle imported into here will be taxed and levied dearly. Around 130% - 300%. And to make it harder, one have to obtain the hard-to-acquire AP (approved permit) from the government in order to collect those vehicle from ports. So by shipping it in parts, you will only be liable with around 10%-40% tax given the incomplete vehicle nature. And you don’t need the AP.

Stripped down the tank, bodywork, harness, battery etc.....bringing down the engine and tranny soon

Thanks for the well needed list of reliable parts sources Skeeve. Will let you guys noticed if I encounters any stumps. Thanks Gritman. LOL, I'll keep that in mind...

Pardon the dodgy pic...using my handphone