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Thats good. It'll help my pension plan!

Ive heard those type of wheel referred to as a "raised centre" wheel because where the spokes go in it's raised significantly from the bead area. A normal rim has a more gradual radius than that one.

Ok. Thanks for your answer. That points me in the direction l need to go.

I'm fine tuning the vm36's on my 650. It runs fine and starts good but is a little rich at idle. I have two sets of carbs from 650s to scavenge parts from plus my jet box. Anyhow. The needle jet in the bike is a 0-6 and the spare set has Q-5. Are the 5's leaner? The needle on the bike is 6h9 and...

Installed a right hand gear shift on the flattracker.

Looks like I found the answer myself. went and checked the serial number on the race bike engine and it's S650 also. And I know that engine is a 73. So I guess 256 series engines are stamped S650.

While digging through some scrap engines. I found a 650 engine with s 650 in the serial number. The rocker cover for the decompressor is missing so that's out as a way to check. Is this a 256 type engine? Looked around online and it seems like it might be a early one. Thanks

I'm in southern ontario. I have 1 5/8 primaries going into a 3"x14" collector with a 6" perforated tube baffle 1 3/4 id with a stock 256 engine and 36 mikunis. The other guys had a 2-1 with longer primaries dumping into a single 36"? Jemco style megaphone. That was a full race 750. The third one...

Since l finally put my flattracker together it' kind of lit under a fire under my ass lol A Anyhow is there a general rule of thumb for type of exhaust system? We race in vintage 1/2 mile flattrack. At the last race we had 4 yamahas and 4 separate types of pipes lol

2 kids, lots of bikes and riding in a trophy class doesn't support a 500 bucks plus ignition system lol. I'm sure it works great just not in my budget. Thanks for the reply though.

Ok we'll run it as is and see how it works.thanks

We ran the factory wires from the points to the trigger side of the coil and fastened them both to the trigger end of the coil. Is that considered in parallel? I'm a little unsure about in series and parallel? Thanks

Hi l have a 73 650 engine in a flattrack frame. We're running a stock dual points ignition into a single 4.7 ohm harley style coil. The bike seems to work fine. We wired it with a condensor for each set of points using the factory wiring. All the diagrams l see on here just show one. Are we...

Just thought I'd give a quick heads up to anyone in Southern Ont that had trouble finding a 1 and 53/64 frost plug. After I searched high and low(napa,uap,apc,carquest, etc) for the proper plug using the dorman #555-083 my local APC dealer cross referenced it to another local Carquest under the...

Yeah I'm not overly impressed with them right now. I tried to order a PMA from them and was told it was out of stock. I tried to get them to contact me with some info as to when it would be in stock with no response of any kind. 10 days later I gave up and ordered a Boyer from Walridge in Lucan...