Doug Riparetti

I've done this drive several years back, it may have been a "DWA" event, fun run to do...………….

We could meet at the Chevron at 1390 Prospect Ave, Hollister, CA 95023 

Hwy 25 (South) (Turn Right)

Hwy 25 (South) Past the Pinnacles to the town of Lonoak

Lonoak Road West to 1st street King City

King City + Lunch Stop (various fast food)

King City + Fuel stop (NOTE) YOU MUST Fuel up at this point.

Hwy 101 to Jolon Road (South West) to Mission Road West (Turn Right)

Mission Road to Nacimiento-Fergusson Rd (West) (Turn Left)

Nacimiento-Fergusson Rd (West) (Turn Left)

Negro Fork (Stay to the right)

Pit-stop at Ponderosa Campgrounds

Nacimiento-Fergusson Rd becomes US Hwy Forest Route 2201 Stay on that road until Hwy 1 (North) (Turn Right)

Fuel can be found at Big Sur if needed.

Hwy 1 North to Carmel Vally Road. (Turn Right)

End at Baja Cantina American/Mexican restaurant.

+NOTE: If the gate to access Nacimiento-Fergusson Rd is closed, we can take Jolon back to Hwy 101 to Atascadero to Hwy 41 (West) to Hwy 1 North.

I found a brand new NLA “Evo” head last year, I’ve been parked since the latter part of September, hope to be back on the road by the end of the month.

I’m running water temperature, oil temperature and oil pressure gauges along with air fuel ratio.

I highly recommend running all four of those gauges, this is the best way to handle your engine management.

This photo was taken on my drive home from SoCal vintage a couple weeks back. Fifth gear, 90+mph going North on Hwy 5.

I've had my SPAL generic/universal electric windows since May of 2014, damn near 80,000-miles since installing them. I'm happy, I did have to replace the rockers like eight or nine times, I buy spares.

They are a bit slow rolling down, I should clean and grease the tracks. I do use a silicone spray in the vertical felt guide, that seams to help.

Early morning lining up to enter the “SoCal Vintage BMW” gathering in Woodley Park November 2nd, 2019.......

Between 12:00 and 1:00 for lunch, pending on pit stops. 

Regards to joining lunch and drive, please, and tell your friends.

Is ANYONE planning on attending this gathering?

Sounds like I'll head over to Chromatic Coffee on Sunday for the BMW GGC event, instead of 3-hours on the freeway.

I'll go North on Hwy 1 for a cruise up to Alice's Restaurant, spend the 3-hours on backroads. 

What way are you going? I'm leaving from 93955

Looking to caravan to the "NK" gathering in Sacramento on Sunday, are there ANY "Bay Area 02" folk planning on attending this event?

The 2nd stop is at Chevron station at 1390 Prospect Ave, Hollister, CA 95023.

Meeting there at approximately 8:30 if y'all would rather start the drive from there.

Inquiring if any "Bay Area 02" peeps are planning on attending the Sacramento Neue Klasse and Kaffee this Sunday?

Spend the money, and the time, buy the one that "Ireland Engineering" is producing. Well worth the effort. wish I would have done it SOONER………...

7 hours ago, roman.lysiak said:

on a similar topic,  with my tii  I have been across continent 3 time. Newfoundland, Hatteras, San Diego, Vancouver. Need to do a trip to Florida and Alaska, to have done all corners of N.A. My odometer has never worked in the 20 years.   is that a hole in the hood?

Yes. The cables for the motorcycle carburetors were binding when I closed the hood, I had no choice but to cut a window in it. I did finally install a hood scoop when I made the trek back to Arkansas, when I attended Mid America ‘02 Fest earlier this year. With rain in the forecast for my trip back East, it was time to cover up the hole.

30 minutes ago, ray_ said:

32000.

 

In what amount of time? 

Curious what kind of miles y’all have put on your “02” since doing the S14 swap?

Since December 11th, 2017,  I’ve racked up 39,665 trouble free miles. I did make a 3905-mile round trip to Mid-America ‘02 Feat, 2019. Looking forward to Mid-America “2020”.

Shout out to my brother at “Riparetti Cylinder Head Service”, Kuna, Idaho for building one AWESOME motor......

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1 hour ago, Mucci said:

Is there some sort of calculation to help choose the correct size motorcycle carbs for a sporty daily driver?

 

Also, is there a reason you went with the individual cable Mikunis vs. a linkage bank with single cable?

 I’m not aware of a calculation chart to determine the size of carburetors to go with. 

I went with these carburetors because of experience. My brother and I started racing with these carburetors at Madera Speedway in California back in 1997.

With over 20-years racing experience with these carburetors, I felt pretty comfortable about installing them on my S14. 

 I had (4) 36mm Mikuni motorcycle carbs on a stock low compression M10 motor, it ran pretty decent, but I never tried to 44s on it.

 I would not recommend the 36s, I would go straight to the 44s. 

11 hours ago, zinz said:

Waiting for Doug Riparetti to chime in ?

 

 

What would you like to know?

I have over 35,000-miles since installing the S14 back in December of 2017.

LOVE the sound and the performance of the 44mm Mikuni motorcycle carbs. 

They’ve been running the same set-up on 4-cylinders circle track cars since the early 90s  out here in California, and around Idaho, Utah, and Washington.

I've seen the Mikuni motorcycle carbs on the Ford Pinto motor, Renault, Datsun and Toyota’s (we ran the Toyota 3TC motor when I was racing). 

11 hours ago, Dudeland said:

Dude you just blew my mind.   Do you have picks?  Pm me,  Sorry I don't want to hijack the thread. 

 

 In my opinion, the E21 brake master cylinder does not put enough volume, does resulting in a soft pedal. 

I had ZERO luck with the E21 master cylinder when I did my big brake kit upgrade, I ended up doing a brake booster delete, modified the bell-crank to change the peddle ratio, an installed a generation 2 Corvette master cylinder with a custom adapter to bolt to the stock pick up point where the existing brake booster was mounted.

Brakes work AWESOME, and NO proportioning valve for balance was used.

Do you live in (831)……?

On ‎8‎/‎17‎/‎2019 at 7:22 PM, JohnS said:

Had to take her for a shake down cruze after installing the alternator bracket.  Through the beautiful Brussel Sprout fields of Watsonville. ?  No problems