Lucky Phil

If you mean "Guzzi specific tooling" there is only 1 and that's the flywheel holding tool which is cheap to buy and needed when torqueing up the flywheel bolts. Maybe a clutch plate alignment tool for the twin platers. Not necessary on a RAM single plate unit. The rest is just std tooling. Even buying a few special tools is a lot cheaper and easier than taking it to a Mechanic. Ciao

Looks like he ran out of funds when it got to the front wheels, lol Ciao

I'm wondering if the electronic suspension model might have a variable damping capability tied to throttle position/engine torque output. So when you get on the throttle the rear shock rebound rate is increased proportionally to help lessen the jacking. Lots of scope in electronic suspension control these days. Of course chain drive sports bike jack the rear suspension on the power and are set up to do it so obviously some is required. It's a matter of proportion and control. Ciao

I think you mean the 1200 Sport. Requires a whole new gearbox housing I believe. Ciao

I think you'll find that the OEM clutch used RAM components except for the flywheel that Guzzi sourced itself that were prone to failure. My bike has a RAM alloy unit in it and I'm not the slightest bit concerned. Aftermarket RAM units don't have a flywheel failure issue. Ciao

First time I saw a Guzzi valve train I though..."Ditch pump" Ciao

We have a local shim maker that makes all sorts of shims to order and has a large stock of many Ducati shims. If he doesn't stock it he'll make it for you. I had some shims made for the Daytona engine. He'll make valve shims for about 6 or 7 bucks each from memory. So if you can wait a week or less you can pull shims and have a the size you need made. I know people in the states that use him as well. http://www.precisionshims.com.au/products/flat Ciao

I recall 75deg is as far as you can go without a balance shaft in a Motogp engine anyway. If it's around that in a road bike it'll need a balance shaft. Lets see if my protractor and scaling off an image is right. Ciao

My protractor also tells me it's not a 90 deg Vtwin either. Probably a 75 or 78 deg V. So balance shaft as well most likely. Ciao

Time to sort the inevitable technical teething and production issues ready for the "smart" buyers. Ciao

Really? I'm not seeing that. Ciao

I notice they haven't provided any full side on shots on the drive side. It looks like we are back to the old Pogo style shaft drive and "reaction" system is gone as Pete Roper pointed out in a previous post. I'm always suspicious when a particular image perspective is missing. Ciao

Who knows, possibly. Most engineering design is built on what's been done before and then re jigged and enhanced. There's not that many truly original ideas out there anymore. Off the top of my head without thinking about it "maybe" the Wankel engine and the other would be the Cosworth Head and "barrel turbulence" style cylinder filling as opposed to the accepted "swirl" style of the day. That was revolutionary, original and made a massive difference to combustion efficiency. Ciao

What's that noise? Oh the sound of 60 million Italians groaning "Mamma Mia" and palms hitting foreheads. Ciao

That's a stretch. A 350 Chev is water cooled, bathtub or wedge shaped combustion chamber, paired valves with inlet between the V and exhaust the other side so transverse cross flow. Ones all aluminium and ones Iron/iron or Iron/aluminium. I guess they're both 90deg 4 stroke piston engines Ciao

That's what I'm thinking docc. I know for sure Ducati beat them by a long way. Maybe I was getting "car" and "tractor" confused. Ciao

For a professed "Guzzista" his detailed knowledge is a bit lacking. "engine derived from a failed car project?", err, no, "using EFI long before anyone else" err, no again. Ducati beat Guzzi to EFI by about 5 years from memory. Journalists Ciao

Some people have no concept of the value of provenance Ciao

I think there's a few advantages like this to living outside large cities Pete. Our local tip is closed so I rang a local tree lopper the other day for a quote to stop out the front of my place AT HIS CONVENIENCE to chip and take away 2 box trailer loads of tree pruning's, 15min work max, stuff at the top of the drive, no walking, easiest job you'll ever get. Sure $250 to you mate! So you charge $1000/hour for throwing branches into a chipper and then sell the wood chips for good money? That's Neurosurgeon hourly rates. Thanks but no thanks. Big City commerce. Ciao

Top flow injectors are pretty easy as your links show but are no good for side flow injectors which the high cam and a few Ducatis use. The disadvantage with back flushing only is you cant check the spray pattern which is important but maybe it cleans the internal filter better. Ciao

I can't even remember the last time I went to an auto parts shop and had someone across the counter that knew anything technical Pete. Ciao

In all honesty the orings never seem to leak. You need to go to an injector cleaning and overhaul place to source them without resorting to measuring and trial fitting etc. When I had my Daytona side flows professionally done I asked them to replace the orings which they said they did. There're not listed in the parts book separately. Ciao

You can add me to the list. My r/h little finger is "U" shaped from the first joint and makes wiping down surfaces, putting on a glove and holding a handlebar a chore. The straightening operation 7 years ago lasted about 4 years. I'm even considering amputation above the first joint. Ciao

A little gizmo arrived today as part of my long and somewhat meandering process to build an injector cleaning rig. It was like $22US on ebay delivered and allows you to operated the injectors on various pulse settings while you run some cleaning fluid through them. So cheap to buy it wasn't worth messing around making up something less capable myself. The next mission is to organise a small pressurised container of about a quart of fuel/cleaning solution mix. The side flow injectors shown are a bit of a PITA to clean because you need them fitted to a throttle body to feed the cleaning solution into them. I have an old single Ducati T/B I can use for that. The top flow injectors on the V11 are far easier. Just connect a hose from the pressurised source to the injector top and have the other connector blanked off and stick the injector in a container and away you go. I'll update as I go along. Ciao