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This will be a brief description of the approximately 5 year build of this version of this bike.
I mocked up the components in the OEM condition then disassembled, fixed the stuff I didn't like, rebuilt the engine and assembled with all of the detail stuff taken care of on reassembly.
 

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This pic is during mock up stage, it shows the aluminum frame supports, necessary due to the frame being cut to make room for the blower. It shows the intercooler, made out of copper because of the thermal conduction properties. The intercooler is a tube bundle type meaning the coolant goes thru tubes inside of a container that has fuel/air charge going thru it at a right angle to the tubes. It has a blow off valve set at 15 psi mounted on top, and connects to the engine with hose and clamps. I was asked about the carb, it is a stock carb, yes it works good, yes it is large enough. The stock twin carb set up is taking advantage of pulse tuning, I am not. If you doubt the ability of a single carb be enough, measure the throttle body on you car and factor in the horsepower and you will see what I mean.
 

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This is the carb set up, notice that the carb manifold tube is large diameter, this lowers the temp. of the charge quite a bit and below the dew point on most days. There is a heat shield in the air filter also to prevent hot air off of the engine to enter the carb. Boosted engines live and or die on temperature, cooler is better. Current pulley set up is 5 psi of boost, at least until it is broken in properly. I run non ox premium fuel, 92 or 93 octane, whatever is available, I don't like the whole race fuel deal, pain in the ass. There is a oil cooler mounted low in front of the engine, it is a car transmission cooler, larger is betteron a blower set up, it was a pain to mount, I used stainless tubing to make a mount. The blower is an Eaton M23 from a Mercedes SLK230, I hade to modify it to accept counter clockwise rotation. That involved disassembling the left side and rotating it 180 degrees and remounting it, among other things. I tried to post a video but it was taking to long, I'll have to figure that out. I made two videos yesterday, a walk around and a start and run video.
 

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