Local craigslist has this amazing bike for sale. Expensive? Probably not! 2 stroke bikes are great. I used to ride a Kawasaki AR125 (will talk about it some day).
Old school ingition might be the way to go? Then, I don't even know what I did, but I smell something is burning. I just destroyed the electronic ignition. Did I do that unconsciously? Mechanical Freudian slip? Oh well. I was going to change it to a breaker point anyway.
I decided to go over everything (like I wasn't). I wasn't even sure about TDC mark that I marked (see above--what a professional job!) anymore. I put the old alternater back on so that I can actually see the factory markings of TDC and the firing timing. I now timed perfectly. I mean perfect. Now, I put back the new alternator. Check fuel, spark, the advancer, valve clearance, etc. I kicked a few times. It started! But it sounded strange. The left cylinder is not firing. Why? How about the compression then? I run before, so it should be OK, right? Nope. No compression whatsoever on the left cylinder. WTF? Nothing elese to do here but to open the engine again. The engine is so heavy. Checking the valves. Pour some liquid to see how tightly they're sealed. First, check the right one. It goes away, but not immediately. Not great, but now horrible.
What baout the left? The liquid disappears right away. That's it. That's the problem. But why? You can see the valve below (the smaller one) is not seated fully. Gotta remove the valve.
By the way, I hate the valve compressor that I have. Very awkward. I really want to buy a better one, but it's not that I change valves everyday. I've been using a big C clamp with a study exhaust pipe bracket. I would not recommend this to anyone. If it slipps, everything will fly away and disapper.
For some reasons, the valuve is not going in all the way. Attach it on the power drill. Totally bent. Because it's bent, it wouldn't go all the way into the valve guide. No compression. But I still don't get why I was able to start the engine before. I ordered a new exahus valve. Love seeing new engine components. I admire those who can produce things like this. I have to say that the difference between a mechanic and an enginner is tremendous. I just mess with things.
Ok, this is it! I will put it back togather. But then I just realized that I should lap the valves to make sure they all are seated perfectly. I removed the right one and discovered this. You can clearly see the exaust gas escaping from some places and not making clear contact with the valve seat.
So I attached the valve to the power drill to check if it's straight. Not as bad as the left one, but indeed not straight. I have to order another one then. This seems like how I do things. Not paying attention to details.
First, this is the 1979 Ferrari 312T4 that is modeled after the car that scored the debut win in South American GP. I saw the real one at the Rolex Reunion last year. Amazing sound. The best sounding F1 car I've ever seen so far. In terms of tone, a Honda v12 had much higher note (higher rev engine), but this one sounded so much richier and sexier. Disappointingly, no venturi tunnel when you see the bottom of this model.
Now Ferrari 126CK. This is an interesting one. It's a cheap model, but the shape is after the 126CK prototype that was driven by Gilles Villeneuve during the Intalian GP in 1980 (T5 was too slow--sounds great though). But it has Alboreto's name on it (and 27). In 1980, the Ferrari cars had 1 and 2. My guuess is it came out when Alboreto joined Ferrari.
And the car that raced in 1981 was the 126CK, the first turbo car for Ferrari. Villeneuve won twice in 1981 even though the car's handling was supposedly like Cadillac.
And I found this in a toy shop in Japan. $5. Just like the one I used to have when I was a kid. 1977 312T2B, the car that Niki Lauda won the last championship with Ferrari. The car came to Japan to race without Lauda in 1977. The repacement was a young Candian driver who was racing at McLaren. I had a ticket to go see it, but I was only a kid. Too bad.
This one is another ground effect car. It is supposed to be a 1981 Lotus 81. But this number 11 car has Elio de Angelis's name. That can't be right. He had the number 11 in 1981 with 81b. 12 with 81. 12 car was driven by Mario.