callison

You guys can all stay on probation. Just as soon as I find my Monopoly set, I'm going to use the "Get Out Of Jail Free" card.

The IOM is in New Zealand???

You're kidding, you like marzipan? With breakfast???

What gives is that these are private contributions, we're lucky that there are any at all. You can find pretty much the same list of manuals at Guzzisti.it MANUALI USO E MANUTENZIONE Guzzisti.it MANUALI D'OFFICINA and the official ones (such as they are), at: servicemotoguzzi.com, then go to Download Area and select "Use and maintenance manuals" and then choose one of the manual for the recent Guzzi offerings. Most of the manuals llisted are the sources I used to re-create the wiring schematics over at Sportissimo (thisoldtractor.com) and Sportissimo (guzzitech.com)

I guess I'll stir up trouble. Have you checked your oil filter to see that it's completely tight or has an additional hoseclamp around the oil filter to preclude the filter backing off and destroying the engine? It happened to another Coppa Italia not too long ago and the hose clamp debate has reached full heat! Now's your chance to enter into the fray!

I never even finished putting mine together. Trade it to you for that other V11 Sport ECU we keep swapping!

What kind of hack?

It must be just about time for another Oklahoma BBQ luncheon...

Well, now I know why the snowman's eyes are bugged out!

You can buy aluminum tape at some hardware stores. Very thin aluminum (not foil) with an adhesive backing. 3M product I believe. Also copper tape, smooth or embossed. More expensive. Way more expensive. The metal will do it's job but I'm unsure about the adhesive when it gets warm out. It's kind of weird thinking about these things being products but they're out there. Along with steel wool, you can buy lead wool. We used to stuff it in the shielding gaps to block the radiation on a linear accelerator I worked on many years ago.

Weren't the tickets going for a couple of thousand each? A bit out of my reach. Now, if Iron Butterfly comes to my area, I'll, errr, never mind, I wouldn't pay to see those old farts either.

I did 26.4 miles on a very remote gravel road last March on a fully laden Norge. I've done far more than that on a Sport 1100i. I wouldn't think a V11 LeMans or Sport would be very much different. Not off-road bikes for sure, but if you have the skills (I don't really) or you're nuts (ah... that fits!), they're possibly tolerable for some of that type of riding.

I generally have gotten 7500 miles on any set of tires on my Guzzis. YMMV.

I wonder how Harley Davidson's tally sheet looks in comparison.

A lot of his humor is less than funny but that parking lot marked all as handicapped was inspired.

That beats the crap out of the story I had where I bought a 1967 Fiat 2300S from my boss, who had bought it from a Navy radioman, who won it from an Italian colonel in a card game in Naples. That car was turned into razor blades a long time ago, but the story was pretty cool. That doesn't even come close to this though. Wow! Congratulations.

What MGS?

I have done it and it is not plug and play. The torque arm for the swingarm needs a new mount point welded to the Sport 1100 frame. That's the major difference before you can start swapping parts. You also need to put a Sport 1100 front engine cover on the V11 Sport engine as the Sport 1100 engine sits 1 cm to the right side of the bike. Other than that, there isn't any major difference that I can remember. It is rather more interesting to graft a Sport 1100 spine onto a V11 Sport which is what "FrankenSport" is (now residing in Arizona with my son). Why the special interest in the V11 Sport engine if I may ask?

The low fuel indicator is not a calibrated device. Well, it might have been when installed but the floats have a tendency to change buoyancy so you really can't rely on it except that it indicates when the tank is not full. The tripmeter is only as reliable as the operator, but at least it's accurate if you've got a good idea of your riding style and your particular bike's fuel economy. FWI, my V11 Sport would hit 51 mpg on a steady drone up the freeways in the middle of California if held at a very steady 79 mph. Around town, it was more like 44 mpg and for the infrequent blasts in the mountains it would drop into the high 30's. That same bike, now that my son has it and it's been optimized to run really well, is running in the high 30's all of the time.

Fabulous! I didn't see that one coming.

Mike Rich Motorsports Too bad you hadn't decided to go down this path about 3 months ago. I was trying to sell my ported heads and stuff, now I'm fixing to make them work like they oughta.

It might fit but you'll almost certainly have to switch it over to the earlier style alternator like they did on the California Vintage so that it will clear the spine.

Someone mentioned somewhere that the FBF pistons hit the valves. Mike Rich also sells pistons at around $300 a pair that are computer milled. You might want to give him a call. I don't have his current info so you'll have to pulse the forum for it or perhaps someone will respond in this thread. Mike did tell me that he very carefully designed the pistons for optimum squish clearances on the Guzzi engine without requiring any modifications.

I put just under 57,000 miles on my Sport 1100i in the first two years I had it (purchased June 2, 1998). Then I parked it (still parked, but soon, very soon...). 29,000 miles on my 2001 V11 Sport TT in the 1.5 years I had it before it got totalled in September of 2003 and about 2000 miles on it after that, 4000 miles on a V65C during that same period when both bikes were out of commission (including my 97 California). The California ultimately had about 32,000 miles of mine on it when I sold it this year and only a bit under 8,000 miles on my Norge to this point because I haven't ridden hardly at all since I bought it December 8th of last year. Somewhere in there I've put a lousy 2200 km on my Ural. I have a new job now (started October 29th) and have been commuting the 42 miles to work and then back on the Norge every day except one. That should start adding miles to that puppy real quick. I've a ways to go to get 100,000 miles on any particular bike though.

I doubt it can be done easily without a whole new block (the whole motor probably). To run up the flag on something either Greg Field or Pete Roper posted last year: "Starting with engines A11934 (Breva and Griso 850), KP15051 (Breva 1100), KS13770 (Griso 1100), KT11810 (Cal. Vintage), these bikes got the late twin-spark engine, which is based on the updates that Guzzi made in creating the Norge 1200 engine. These include a gerotor-type oil pump and wider spacing on the studs, which necessitated new piston/cylinder sets, new cylinder heads, and a whole bunch of other attendant parts." You would also have to buy some dual-output coils. TLM has them and their part number is: 307165000010 ; Magneti Marelli coils ; they cost EUR 103 each - 5 years ago when I bought mine, probably half again as much now with the exhange rate and passage of time. I think that by the time I got mine through M.I., they were about $290 for the pair. I also spent $1610 getting my heads Mike Rich ported to Stage II spec's on my Sport 1100i along with the dual plugging. My heads were really bad though so a lot of extra (costly) work was done. I had the Ti retainers put in along with the Mike Rich super heavy duty springs, valve stem inserts etc. It can be done cheaper than what I paid, but at least you have an idea. I've only just installed my dual output coils recently and am still futzing around with the wiring so I can't really say what effect they really have. Normally, with dual plugging on these bikes, you would want to retard the ignition about 7 degrees through the mid-portion of the curve, so now you'll have to figure on modifying your ECU through programming or buying a My16M or something similar. The My16M is why I'm futzing around with my wiring. I'm adding the connector so that I can use either the stock Sport 1100i ECU or the Cliff Jeffries unit which is programmable. Performance costs. Seat of the pants dynameter comparison of my Sport 1100i before the head job and afterwards simply comes down to arm stretch when it hits 4000 rpm.