A quick shout out to my trusty mechanic!
Just a quick shout out to John Quail (shown here at the 2004 Manx GP) for all his time and efforts in tuning my engine, the Nc 35 is currently in the hands of John who has spent hours on end porting and generally preparing the heads and block for skimming.So cheers pal for all your efforts and i hope i can show you how well the bike can go on track.
Pictures from Bike Sport News
I managed to get pictures from BSN on the write up of the race from Mallory on Boxing day and yes you can see me in the back ground too!!!!!
Just removed waiting to be done
As you can see this head has just been removed and the ports have carbon deposits, it might only think there's a small amount of work to be done regarding porting this head but going of the last head and the way that John takes pride in his work i think at least a full days work maybe slightly less to get it ready to go for skimming
Awaiting skimming
The pic shows how the ports have been ground out and cleaned up, all thats needed now with this head is the valves being ground into the seats and the head skimming
Engine Tuning
Well after only one race i've decided that im going to need more horsepower, i was riding the bike round Mallory as hard as i could and i managed a 13th place, i just thought that with more power i could definitely be top 10 and hopefully finish on the podium in the occaisional race, i know i was racing against a mixture of bikes but i know i could have done a lot better with a bit more power.
After several conversations with my now resident mechanic John Quail we came to the conclusion that we could get more power from the motor without affecting the reliabilty, the only initial problems he thought there would be would be the gear driven cams and until he took one of the rocker covers off he then realised it wouldn't be a problem, he estimated we could get another 10 horsepower with porting and skimming the heads and skimming the block, that would bring the total power upto approx 70 horsepower. So tuning has already begun, both heads are now off the block and with one head already ported the rear head is waiting the same treatment then the rest of the motor will be stripped and cleaned then the block and both heads will be sent away to be skimmed.
Hopefully the work will be completed in the next 6 weeks and back in the bike, then its onto the dyno to see if everything is setup right, then eventually i can find a track day to see how she goes, and hopefully then be ready for the start of the season on March 31st / April 1st at Croft.
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