Modern Vespa

Living up to the nickname "Oi_L" for sure!

AI Oi! nice work Chandlerman

does the Quattrini allow the carb to fit under the cowl?

It does. It's maybe even more recessed than the stock carb.

I still think Bogart would be an excellent name for your Lammy, but as the saying goes, you can't change the name of a ship, only its reputation.

Thank you for restoring my faith!

What's the ventilation situation there in your garage?

My thoughts exactly!

Jesus Chandler.
My lungs hurt from here.

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Looks like you'll you'll have it completed by the 8th!

I'm just getting prepped for my time amongst the lammies.

By the time I killed the motor, you could barely see across the workshop.

Tonight, I checked ignition timing, remembered to check squish (right at 1.5, like the instructions call for ), installed the new fuel tap, mounted the regulator & CDI, fully installed the PWK28, and installed the offset cones on the motor swingarm bolt wrong. dropped the motor and installed them wrong again. dropped the motor and finally installed them right on the third try.

Tomorrow will be connecting up clutch/gear/rear brake cables, then ideally the electrical finished off.

Hopefully SIP will actually ship my exhaust, too. Otherwise, I'll be fabricating a custom mounting bracket for the loaner exhaust and starting carb tuning for it.

Next video iteration was the PWK 28 with the idle screw way too far in and 3% gas from the tank thanks to the new tap, so about 90% less smoke, but 100% more of my second trademark move (after fires and explosions), the exhaust falling off.

One way or another, I should be on the road by the 8th.

Mine should be back on the road by the 8th as well, but it might be june 8 of 2025

Rode the Smallstate the other day and was wondering ... Since the small frame pulls air from the horncast, if I put a big funnel on the front would I go faster ?

That's how the world land speed smallie records are set at Bonneville. You should see the size of the funnels.

Got a pic link ? Power overcomes resistance ?

Yesterday I tried thinning lightweight body filler with polyester resin. Works well especially for old stuff on the bottom that has thickened. I also tried mixing filler with icing/glaze and that's really nice. Smoother without being much thinner.

'twas sarcasm only, but here's the pic:

That's unreal, man.

Taking me back.

That is both some BBS level snark and Corel level graphics!

Lolz!

Tomorrow; belly still very full, still waiting to take a dump!

It was far out.

Me exiting the workshop...

What are you working on... the Motovespa?

mostly just a bad joke, and I really thought I could pull off something a bit better but I gave up quickly and went for comically bad instead.

It sure made me laugh!

(And we know you weren't really going full on BBS flamethrower.)

Yup. A few minor blemishes to deal with then wet sand and paint.
I swear I'll put up some process pics soon. All I can say is that the Spaniards didn't do it quite like the Italians.

Please do when you can. Can't wait to see it when you get around to it.

So bad it's good. Story of my (scooter) life.

In all seriousness - race smallies often cut a hole in the side of the frame to get more air to the carb, or even end up with an air filter out of that hole they cut. It is air constrained in that tunnel, for sure.

my friend Dan's race smallie

LML 150 running on angry kittens OR there's a Hemi Hellcat supercharger in there...

Still going after three years, owner has been warned numerous times, probable overhaul in winter, or not...

https://youtu.be/LdgVcz9oRmI

whoa!!

It's the hamster screaming to be put out of his misery.

It ran when parked.

On a bump start only, at that pressure

No video tonight, but I finished up the electrical, hooked up the cables, and actually had the Lammy on the road this evening.

Meanwhile, my pipe shipped, but I fabricated an adapter plate that let me use the Casa Performance tuned pipe I borrowed for a couple days.

Short summary, especially given that the PWK28 is still stock jetting, is that it RIPS. It's not Boo-Badge fast, but it's definitely on par with the GL, which is about what I was expecting power-wise.

Still some tweaking to do around the edges, including carb tuning, but I'm over the hump with this one.

Nice Substitution Jitsu there.

Meanwhile, John is wondering where the log came from.

Helped a good friend dismantle his first italian made scooter, a 1958 Sears Allstate. We broke it down to a bare frame, so he can weld and patch up the rotten floor tunnel area; while preserving as much of the current paint as possible. It has the original blue paint, under a well done older respray in red. This scoot came from the second owner here in Oregon, and included the old registration papers and records from the original owner, and an OG Oregon plate!

I love these split headset models, and it was nice to wrench on one again. This one will stay bone stock with the piston port 125 engine, points, and even the pogo stick fork. Then engine has great compression and should run with bit of attention. It will be fun helping to preserve and get this machine back on the road again.

I've had a bit of a break from scooter stuffs, due to life and living; so it was nice getting a bit of extra motivation by helping a friend.

Right on brother! Always feels good to wrench.

Good stuff.

Jesse, did I see you were selling a wide frame on one of the FB groups?

Maybe post a link in the DoD thread! Solid deal and maybe some MV NSMer would be interested.

It happens.

So last night, in addition to getting the Oi!L minimally on the road for the first time post-rebuild, we got a clubmate's Lambretta Special going, too, which had been a frustrating couple of weeks.

It had been incredibly frustrating because we'd put a new Mugella top end on it and everything checked out: port timing, squish, ignition timing, carb, spark. Everything checked out, it just. didn't. start.

Now to add to they mystery, immediately after the rebuild, it started and ran great. Buddy parked it for a few days and the next time he tried to start it, nothing. Not even with starter fluid. Weird.

Turned out that the stator had gone bad. What I'd missed, but another clubmate noticed (maybe his eyes are better than mine...maybe it's because he was working with less ambient light) was that while the spark was consistent, it was not consistently blue and was jumping around the plug. He slapped a spare stator in that he had handy and the bike started first kick.

So it was two-for-two wins on the evening, plus the valuable troubleshooting lesson that not all sparks are equal, even when they're present.

Next frustration is that while my new exhaust is "shipped," it's still sitting on the dock at SIP.