Topica Loopframe_Guzzi Archive


Subject: Re: transitional forms

Author: Charles Peterson

Date: Jun 23, 2002, 6:18 AM

Post ID: 1710481005


--- jeff m <jef-@frob.org> wrote:
 

Got it home and started stripping it down. This
thing has odd intake
manifolds, unlike frankenguzzi's manifolds which fit
flush to the head,
the new bike has strange notched sleeves that
protude maybe 1.5 inches into
the head when they are mounted. I'm guessing a V700
carryover, as I
couldn't find them on my parts blowup or schematic
either.

ah, well. wish me luck.

--j
I've heard from two sources that they screwed up the
v700 intakes in the head by making them too big. True?
False? who knows.. the notched sleeves might have been
a fix to narrow it to flow air faster. They definitly
were fitted to the original SS1 carbs. After much
fiddling about trying to make vhb 29 carbs work
(needed different manifolds specific to vhb...runs a
different angle off the head) without the sleeves (i
thought they were for just the ss1's) I tried the
sleeves back in. Worked beautifully...first start
purred like a kitten. the sleeve fits between the two
carb gaskets. Now, I don't know how this all relates
to a 750...

Chuck Peterson
New Haven, CT
V1000 I-Convert
V700 I-Shift !
 


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