Doug Riparetti

Dropping down onto Hwy 1 from Nacimiento/Fergusson Road on New Years Day, 2019.

You can buy all four Mikuni carburetors brand new off of eBay for less than $550 delivered, the little rubber boots that mounts to the M10 intakes cost $25 apiece, throttle cable, I think it’s around $150.

Years of racing circle track dating back to 1997 with these carburetors made my decision to go this route.

Standard motorcycle cables that are available from Barnett Tool & Engineering in Ventura, California.

I tried flat slides on one of my race cars back in 2001, a Toyota 3TC, could not get them to work. Several guys at Meridian Speedway in Idaho tried on different motor combo's (Ford Pinto, Honda, Datsun & Toyota) with no luck. They all switched, or went back to the 44mm Mikuni round slides. 

Thanks, got what I needed 

Does anyone have the number or website for the guy in San Francisco that sells the heater box re-build kits?

Thanks

It took me 1-1/2 hours yesterday to burp my radiator and get the air pockets out. This check valve at the top of the cross over helps. 
 

I have a slight angle in my driveway, I jacked up the right front corner, left the radiator cap off, check valve open, and let it idle until it stopped spitting.

On 1/3/2019 at 11:02 PM, bento said:

 

I misread your post on the first page of this thread as one of the projects that was still underway, not as a completed conversion. Sounds like you landed on a combo that works well. That’s good to know in case I keep blowing out boosters.

 

What pads are you running on the wilwoods?

I'm a little over 50,000-miles since installing the Corvette master cylinder/modified "bell crank", no complaints, the brakes feel like the cars I used to race. 

No news, not gonna pursue it, did not seem like much interest in the event.

On 11/15/2020 at 8:37 AM, CoastalCrush said:

U.S.S. Hornet, GREAT location for a car gathering, looking forward to the upcoming event there on the 21st of this month.

I'm not sure of Steve's last name, red Tii, can some one give me a number to contact him? 

I would like to take over, promote it and move it to a San Benito/Monterey County drive if the tradition is being abandoned by Steve. 

Will there be a "2021" Bay Area Shamrock Rally? A day/drive that I always look forward to.

With 7600-miles on the new Evo head, it was time to run the valves. 

I gave the machine shop a spreadsheet when he assembled the head so he could document each shim per valve, that way I had a baseline to work with on the next valve adjustment. Makes things go MUCH faster this way.

The 2nd spreadsheet is for my next adjustment.

I thought to share a photo of the plugs too, they were new when I replaced the head. My buddy thinks it's a little rich, I told him that it may be from the octane boost I've been running for the last two tanks. He wants to see the percaline a bit more grayer.  

That’s how my set-up is done.

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NICE. I had the pleasure and privilege to see "New Order" perform "LIVE" back 1985 when they were on tour here in the USA. Saw them at Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center in Oakland, CA. 

Weather looks GREAT for our "New Years Day" drive.  ?

Here's the 2nd phase of the drive. We stop off in Castroville for an ice cream.

30979-30901 River Rd, Soledad, CA 93960 to Patio Drive In - Google Maps

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The drive is still ON, hope to see y’all tomorrow.  ?

I just heard back from Cal-Trans,  Nacimiento- Fergusson is in fact closed. We will choose from one of the alternate routes on Sunday.