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Cheap shipping US to NZ through NZPost "youshop" service. They also do China and UK but I haven't compared rates.

Arrow backward will be much less effective in repelling possums.

The rain grooves will suck water under you instead of pumping it away, something like that but less dramatic

2002 models I looked up were all still 9.5:1

I haven't looked them up but I fully expect those high end products to cost silly silly money in NZ. How often do they need changing? Regular 90wt gear oil is cheap as chips, it's straight mineral 30w engine oil aka lawnmower oil.

No moly in gearbox, only final drive from what I've been reading.

Might be worth suggesting both the washers and lighter spring setup to MG and close the book on these breakdowns.

Precisely, to get it into shape it is cold rolled, after that it may be annealed, or otherwise re-treated for springyness. What I learned of metallurgy wouldn't have filled 5 pages, a long long time ago and never covered spring making. Cold working after the fact can only be bad, but perhaps far less bad than the failing mode of the original!

I know little of metallurgy, but surely bending/unbending spring steel will harden the bent/straightened section.

You are correct Mick, another bit of insurance is to put a slight bend in the long end of the spring to relax the tension. The spring is there to locate the pawl against the pins but does not need to have heavy tension. If you carefully bend the long end back some so the spring is not wound as tight on the upshift, you will greatly reduce stress on the spring. Lessening the tension and polishing all of the contact points on the pawl improves the shift feel and quickens the return as well. I have read a few in agreement with adding the 1.5mm shim washers and profiling the pawl to the spring hook. But monkeying with the spring tension is a new one. Without having parts in hand I can't tell if the spring is spread or compressed to bend it for less tension when working.

what is the specified oil, and how does that stuff differ?

Looks like something Tony Foale would have come up with. He converted a few BMW's and BMW have almost come on board. Just don't call it a girder. The steering geometry is maintained under suspension action. Think about that.

Re helmets, it always used to be said "you either have an Arai head or a Shoie head". I have a Nolan myself. It would pay to try on before buying.

Any room behind the clocks for spanners? Might resist some of the negative handling implications of loading up saddlebags.

MacGuyver lives here ^.

How balanced can two cylinders even get? Iirc you need 4 on a 4 stroke. Wouldn't it be something to graft two motors into a V4 2 litre tire shredder with a fully balanced crank.

level becomes less critical as the whole idea is reducing the slop off the pickup which is more or less at the bottom. There is minutae of pointscoring discussion over volume and level if you can bothered reading it. Anyway, how are the bearings looking?

That is correct. Only the earliest Sports/ pre-Rosso Mandello. And yes, one can jack up his suspension settings enough to eliminate all forgiving margins. This can be followed by the sound of bouncing off the air dam of a BMW sedan. Experience is often the simple accumulation of bad judgement. Forwarned is fore armed as they say. You're almost making me happy they didn't lash out on ohlins for the tenni.

good idea, the old cellphone light is never the best. Do cyalume sticks expire in storage?

After my years here, I think I have used up my allotment for local hosting. And that's after deleting all the extraneous photos of various libations considered elemental to the V11 experience . . . Should always be room for technical assistance photos, quota or no quota. I'm not big on photography so please use mine if you like.

Ordering from NZ you don't pay our NZ GST on exports. A helmet dealer might not be aware he doesn't have to charge it. Not sure but I think they still do economy surface post at NZpost. If your border control / tax collection is asleep it might slip through untaxed. That used to happen sometimes here, even with airmail. DHL and fedex ping you on behalf of govt.

^ None of which applies to the Scura if I'm not mistaken.

I think they should be worthy of local hosting!

I struggled through that link, the original thread which inspired it is linked at the bottom, makes a much better fist of summarising with explanation. Some learn from being told, others by being shown how, others by doing, and others need to know why. I am in the last subgroup. Surprised there was no mention of the balancing oil manometer.

Hereyago, tuning steps pre fiddling with ECU: http://www.v11lemans.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=12204