johnp.smith said:WOW, that's way out of my league
Naw man,just design a basic frame and get with the creativity! It took about a year to do this,and thats hardly working on it. Every now and then we would fiddle with it during the bicycle builds.
TommyTwoTime said:Man that thing is cool. I love the use of the turbo for your aircleaner. Is it functional? I see the exhaust runs thru it.
YUP! It works! In fact,it worked out too well. :roll: We had allot of work done to the motor in order to take the turbo and allow it to function properly. The carb had to be drilled and another pick up tube in. Once the turbo would spool up the PSI from it would flow the fule BACK down into the tank. Along with the added and larger pick up tubes,the motor was rebuilt and bored 30 over,larger piston which is billet,a billet lightweight piston rod,titanium valves,new bearings that have something special about them,the 'hot' cam was replaced with a modified 'radical' cam,the next mod is the flywheel,a polished billet one will replace the heavy cast iron one. We are also looking into an upgraded magneto. This motor runs off of methanol. so it smells GOOOOOOOD! Without the turbo connected it has 15.+ hp. I forget off hand. And WITH turbo,well....we dont know just yet.
mastronaut said:Unreal! The million dollar question, how fast does it go?
This we dont know yet. Before the engine build we ran it along side of our moms Impala SS (lingenfelter package!) and it ran at 55 even. That was before the rebuild and NO turbo connected.
We have a slight problem that will be fixed soon,the chain is over 100 inches llong and has a bad bounce in it above 55,so we are going to build a jackshaft and break it down to 3 short chains and gear it out of this world! Some say us Gibbs brothers have a death wish on this bike,we say "Many people have a life,but few people LIVE it."
See some more pics here if you have a facebook. http://www.facebook.com/3gfabrications
I am about to make a thread for this bike. We named it Roach. Cause its naaaasty lookin!