96SportCarb Posted January 24, 2009 Posted January 24, 2009 Hi My name is Kuan, I lived in a small island called Taiwan (Republic of China/ Democracy) which has limit source of MOTO GUZZI.(Please bear with me with my poor English) Here is my guzzi story: The first time I saw her, she was setting in public garage more than 3 years waiting for someone special and has a LeMans sticker on her. My wife found her on our way to buy wedding ring.(at the time we are going to get marry and we did) I can't help to see such a beautiful Italian bike sitting like this, but we have 4 bikes already.(2006 Ducati sport 1100, 2005 ducati s2r 800(hers), 1985 HONDA GB400TT, 2000 Kawasaki zr-7) I try to forgot about this because at the time I need cash for the ring. Few days later talk to my friend and he said he know the owner and he can reach him for me for a good price because the bike can not start due to bad relay and more. Hum.... FINALLY talk to my wife and her answer surprised me! She said "if you really like this bike than go for it. The ring can hold for future" (I got one nice girl here!! and I did buy a ring later for her, bigger stone than the old one!) So here we go, a long way to restore. First, tear everything apart and check. CARB need works, engine need adjust and balance, mirror wont stay, fork is going bad, dripping little oil. no missing parts and that is a good new. Replaced the whole hardness to get the bike started(wait for 2 month), than replaced 2 new battery, 2 new Honda CBR mirrors, fresh engine/gear oil, and carb cleaning and gasket replaced.(left bank is really bad) As for the mod, I remove the air box/ram duc and put the corn filters on to match the full TERMIGNONI exhaust. It's time for a spin and hope everything is right! EVERYTHING IS OK EXCEPT after couple ride I found the fork seal totally went bad. Replace the fork seals( from ebay), no good result. I AM STOCK NOW. While lurking around net I find the ohlins forks for HONDA CB1300 seems to be a good length and after doing lots of works finally got it fit on the sport. Works including CNC the triple clamp hole bigger, custom made fender holder, and CNC brake extend. Now i finally can enjoy the guzzi. Couple months later when i looks at the LeMans sticker came with her, An idea came in my mind: Why not make it looks like V11 Lemans(my all time favorite bike)? Try to google sport 1100 aftermarket faring but no shipping to Taiwan. OK, let's make our own faring. my design was to look like v11 lemans or DUCATI paul smart. Due to the headlight size, I go with the Duc style because I don't want the frame to be modify and i can go back to original. Long story short, had the shop copy a new one and modify it to round 6"(16cm) head light. get the fairing home and finalized the fitments. Now she looks like "MY" Le Mans. love it every inches. Thanks for reading my Guzzi story and hope you will enjoy. Regards, Kuan AKA 96SPORTCARB 1
Slavomir Musilek (R.I.P.) Posted January 24, 2009 Posted January 24, 2009 Kuan, this really made me stare at the laptop! Your creation is simply Gorgeus! Holy crap, she's real beauty. Wonderful work!
gstallons Posted January 24, 2009 Posted January 24, 2009 Kuan, You are "THE MAN"! We need more pics.. gene
96SportCarb Posted January 24, 2009 Author Posted January 24, 2009 Kuan, this really made me stare at the laptop! Your creation is simply Gorgeus! Holy crap, she's real beauty. Wonderful work! Thanks! Hope the information is useful for the other sport 1100 owner. Like the others guzzist said, the Guzzi is a good project bike base. You got to make it perfect for yourself! cheers, Kuan
96SportCarb Posted January 24, 2009 Author Posted January 24, 2009 Kuan, You are "THE MAN"! We need more pics.. gene "THE MAN" took nearly 2 year to finish the project, but full of fun!!!! More picture can be found here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kuantings/set...57600750667367/ If you need any specific pictures, let me know.
Garsdad Posted January 24, 2009 Posted January 24, 2009 Holy crap, Dude! That is one hugely impressive bike. That is the kind of thing most of us only dream of, but a very few actually build.
Paul Minnaert Posted January 24, 2009 Posted January 24, 2009 you did nice work, but to complete it, the airfilters should be on velocity stacks, not direct on the carburator.
96SportCarb Posted January 24, 2009 Author Posted January 24, 2009 you did nice work, but to complete it, the airfilters should be on velocity stacks, not direct on the carburator. Paul, Thanks for the input. Please tell me more information regarding air filters on velocity stacks. Do you have any pictures of the right install? is it should looks like this? or this s the right one? http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/_Motorcycle...A1%7C240%3A1318 thanks a lot, Kuan
Skeeve Posted January 25, 2009 Posted January 25, 2009 Great writeup & excellent job on the bike, Kuan! The velocity stacks issue is less about looks [re: polished ebay item you linked to] & more about performance: the bike needs to breath, and can do that better when there is a smooth transition from the still air area inside the filter to the high velocity flow through the intake port above the piston. Best of luck, & thanks for sharing!
jihem Posted January 25, 2009 Posted January 25, 2009 Thanx for sharing this, such a great story and a brilliant ending
tikkanen Posted January 25, 2009 Posted January 25, 2009 That's the spirit, Kuan Well done, mate. She sure is stunning (both your wife and your Guzzi ) and the round headlight looks so much better than the square one. Hats off! Søren
Paul Minnaert Posted January 25, 2009 Posted January 25, 2009 the big engine needs lots of air to run good. It should have the air as easy as possible. The original airbox did a good job there, now thats gone and you need something else. The filters should have a surface area as big as possible. The velocity stacks are there to make the air nice flowing in the carburator, so the gas can come out the jets and mix with air. Make a calculation of how much air the engine needs at 8000 rpm for each second. Are those Ohlins so cheap where you live? or did they almost cost as much as the bike? it looks good.
moscowphil Posted January 25, 2009 Posted January 25, 2009 That's the spirit, Kuan Well done, mate. She sure is stunning (both your wife and your Guzzi ) and the round headlight looks so much better than the square one. Hats off! Søren Yes the round headlight does look much better. What's interesting is that the prototype of the 1100 sport did have a round headlight, and also looked superb. But by the time it got into production it had the strange lozenge shaped one. I reckon Guzzi must employ somebody whose sole job is to ruin the looks of the bikes created by their engineers by slapping on a bit of pseudo-japanese styling. They have always done it - we could have an interesting competition to come up with the worst Guzzi styling exercise ever. To start you all off how did they manage to turn this into this?
Murray Posted January 26, 2009 Posted January 26, 2009 I have some reasonably big K&N pod filters fitted to my 1100 sport (they barely fit between the carbs and the frame) see if I can dig a part no up latter. Nice work too. try and organise a better pic latter as well.
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