Pressureangle

Having looked at all shipping options, there is a considerable savings in using a padded priority envelope for these plates, particularly for international buyers. I'll offer that up as your option, and the plates are stiff and durable but there is always some small chance of getting bent. To those who have already paid but not received, let me know your preference and if you'd like to go with the padded envelope I'll refund the difference.

Just to toss a bit more clarity into the mix; Gears are one of the most difficult systems of mechanical engineering. Purpose, environment, shock, expansion, duty cycle all calculate into the mix. Tooth profile, materials, loads, lubricants. Heavily loaded gears are always steel, with heavy, high-additive lubricants. Lesser loads can be handled by lesser materials; but Aluminum is at best a poor bet in any case. High-speed gears subject to high heat demand specific lubricants; think your rear drive unit with Red Line heavy, etc. Well your engine doesn't have Red Line heavy. Your engine has motor oil, which is *not* a very good gear lube. One solution is to use very high quality, ground-profile gear teeth that don't clash. What you hear in your straight-cut gearbox is actually each tooth bashing into the next one as the gears rotate. That's a lot of abuse. To eliminate the noise, the teeth have to be finish-ground rather than hobbed (cut) to have the correct profile and finish, and the clearance needs to be within a very specific range. Aluminum is not out of the question here, with the caveat that gears have a minimum threshold for load capacity, obviously, and metals have the very odd property of disliking mating gears with the same hardness. One gear must always be harder than the other, unless both are hard enough to have zero deflection and adequate lubrication to keep them apart. So by the time you create an aluminum gear of high enough quality and finish, and mate it to a steel gear of sufficient hardness, you may as well just go with steel anyway, which is what Joe Caruso has done. I would also wager that if you could watch the cam gear on our engine with a strobe light, you'd see it flopping all over in a wobble as the camshaft deflects, which leads to edge loading the gears, multiplying the problem. I wonder if Joe has a tiny bit of camber built into the teeth to prevent that edge loading. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain, I'm tired and rambling.

Yes, received. I had houseguests and was away a few days. Your plate should make it out in today's mail. Eric

Hey! It didn't save me even a little.

You'll need 2 upper gaskets and one lower gasket, unless you can save the upper that's already in the bike. Swooshdave has made a super video on the installation. Swooshdave's awesome Roper Plate install video

Most of you probably follow the Redux thread, but I wanted to move the pertinent info to the top where it's not buried 7 pages deep. Pete Roper licensed sloppage trays for V11 broad-sump motors, US-made in 304 Stainless Steel .075" thick. $85 US. Pete gets $20. Edit; 3/23/25 New supplier, I can order singles at the same price. I've sourced 2mm longer bolts (12 short, not 4 long) for the upper pan to keep thread engagement through the plate and additional gasket. I've sourced Viton O-rings for the oil cooler pipes; I discovered mine were harder and uncomfortably loose in the bores. I've stocked upper and lower gaskets I can include all of the above for $135 US including shipping to North America. International shipping is $125 US plus actual shipping.

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Update; I'm sincerely hoping (and pushing) to get these engraved in the next few days. Anybody who wants one can order simply by sending a PM. If you're in a hurry to get one immediately, I can send it minus engraving. We can not yet take credit cards directly, so payment at the moment has to be USPS money order, checks, or PayPal. I have Google Pay also but have to discover exactly how to take payment with it. PayPal email is; pressureangle@gmail.com Surface mail box and check made to; Horst Manufacturing 9501 E. Center St. Windham, OH 44288

Have you contacted RAM directly? They're in Columbia, South Carolina. I pass through there and spend the night about once a month, I could stop for a chat if you're certain the clutch is theirs.

LOL I did not review them before uploading! I deleted that one- if anyone wants a copy PM me lol

Sew... I just bulk uploaded a bunch of video to YouTube. The files ending in 'F' are the front camera, 'R' rear camera. Some of it is typically boring, following minivans etc. Some are ok. There's Cherohala, Tail, and hwy 22 south in there, as well as Ballpark road going North. Better than Judge Judy for background noise, I guess. Spine Raid footage

A smarter guy would just take the fuse out of the camera hot wire.

Since learning about the oil problem in V11's, I've tried hard to get mine to show ('97 Sport-i) by working it with hard first gear climbs on a fairly steep hill- and I've not been able to see a flicker. All the same, I wanted one because that's just how we roll.

I'm laughing because I have a '97 Sport-i myself, and haven't yet confirmed that fitment. I think Pete confirms it elsewhere.

I am sooo tempted to join along... But it isn't likely as I'm in S. Florida and it's 3 days to Tulsa and my schedule is set to the end of October. Drat.

Hm. From whence and to are you riding this horse?

Ah...hem. Yes. Pete, you've given the MG community far more than you may know, or possibly could have received in return. Well done. I couldn't have made this happen so easily without Swooshdave and Chuck. It was my intention to let Swooshdave be the front man, but since the cat is out of the bag, they are made, and waiting only on engraving; I'm hesitant to let them go blank but the engraving is way behind schedule. The price will be $70.00US plus a medium USPS priority box, $14.35, total $84.35US. International buyers pay only what actual shipping costs, we'll send them anywhere. I have to set up a proper company PayPal yet, but checks and money orders are ok after clearing and I have to check on VISA/MC/AMEX before making a statement of certainty.

I gave this a lot of thought last year, did 10k miles on my 1100 Sport i. For tools, I took the stock tool kit- spark plug wrench, a couple open ends etc. Additionally, I took a 3" adjustable wrench (yes, 3"), a small set of metric allens, a 10mm allen for the axle, spare relay, fuses, and a small pair of needle nose pliers. I figured the bigger stuff I'd just buy locally if I needed it; test light, multimeter, hammer and flamethrower. My insurance would tow me 125 miles, so I'd rather not bother with a test light in the high noon desert sun. The towing, while unused, was probably the most comforting safety net. FWIW next time I'll take a tiny LED flashlight too, though I only rode after dark twice.

The kid I stopped to talk to said there was LE ahead, which is why it's relaxed afterwards. Wasn't, but wasn't feeling too pushy anyway. Gotta find a way to cancel the trans in that microphone.

I put up some vid of the last trip through the Tail. I'll get more up from home. 3 parts. https://youtu.be/IZBM2DL1gtc https://youtu.be/AcGyDeMMmgQ https://youtu.be/gyyM7OU93Hs

Soooo... Pulled into the kid's place in Martin, GA about 11:30. Brought the Mille GT for him to ride. Seat's missing, probably somewhere in the Atlanta construction. Who brought a spare? :/

Yeah they don't count if they've never been struck

Looks like I'm taking a direct hit from Dorian for Labor Day weekend. But hey, the bike's already up in Georgia.