Nice job with the custom pieces! Do you have any suggestion what i can do for my clutch cable level thread housing if i dont have all the machinery to fab a longer thread like you did?
13:39 There's an easier way to find the centers. Measure from the outside of one hole to the inside of the other. That's a direct measurement of the center-to-center points.
I'm just about done and ready to get the 212cc mounted.... My trike seems to be a little shorter than most. So I think I'll have to put the engine above the axle because I really don't want to place it directly behind it.... Question... Have you ever experienced the torque converter setup? I raced go-karts from 84-92 and I never liked the slow take off of the centrifugal clutch (back then it was the 13T horseman)
Great work. I always wanted to do an upgrade like this but I thought that the upper clamps would be too close to the fuel tank, limiting the turn radius. Did you find this?
Wow youtube algorithm, saw the double barrel kit and was thinking the same thing pretty much. Was thinking of maybe vertical but horizontal would be easier without the curves. . And i was thinking so many 😅
Stock Carbs on the Virago are absolute garbage and a complete nightmare to work on (lots of small ports that clog, impossible to tune well). I spent two years diagnosing mine for various problems and finally just replaced them with a 750/920 Mikuni VM34 carb kit from Niche Cycle Supply. IT WAS LIFE CHANGING. It fired right up without any issues and required only minor tuning.
I l8ved 3 years full time in a Skoolie and a cool guy boiler welder, made me a heat exchanger for my fireplace, like yours. Wow! 30% more heat oit and faster too.
Do yourself a favor and try to find a barrel with the removable top. They are usually alot thicker than the standard oil drum that everyone uses and will last you alot longer trust me. And another plus is you can always just remove the top (or front if you mount your door there) to remove and cleanout all the ashes and it's easier to install the grate instead of trying to fit it thru the door!
R6 shock is made for swing arm with linkage. Spring does not match the specs for XV. Better choice would be something from KTM or Ducati with the same swing arm to shock articulation like the XV. I think some of Japanese bikes have the shocks for cantilever swing arms too. Your test after fitting shows the spring is way too hard.and has to be replaced.
Cool build so far, and thank you for the carb explanation details on troubleshooting and how they work in general. I need to learn this stuff. Look forward to your future videos!
Like this heater exchanger, but I would add interlinked copper water pipes, running down the centres of each of the 9 air pipes or tubes, with drilled spacer disc's added welded to the copper water pipes. So heated air can still pass through these air pipes or tubes, while helping to heat up the water running through the newly installed copper water pipes. With these copper water pipes running along the bottom line of air pipes or tubes from right to left. With "U" shaped return water pipes at the front too, which provide an easy flow of water going through the heating water pipes. Then going up one level to the second line of air pipes or tubes, this time running left to right, again with more "U" shaped return water pipes. Lastly going up one more level to the third line of air pipes or tubes, this time running right to left. Finishing at the top with a hot water outlet pipe, to take the heated water away, to radiator or radiators and/or to an insulated hot water storage tank too. With just adding a water pump, which pumps the cold water through the heater exchanger new water heating pipes, at a necessary speed or rate of flow too. Maybe be adding a cold water feeder tank, so the system always has enough water in the water pipes too, also using a rainwater capture and recycling system on the workshop roof, plus large underground water storage tank. Then you could have both hot and cold running water in the workshop, which is totally off-grid as it were too! Just a suggestion, it would be something I would look at doing, for building a similar hot air and hot water heat exchanger, for a combination garage and workshop, plus greenhouse and potting shed too.
Really like that seat bracket. What drove the decision to switch to r6 shock instead of keeping it stock? purely cosmetic or is there a performance issue...?
