Modern Vespa

Which do you prefer?

Just saying.

I'm bored and contemplating fate. I'll bet the EU folks have more experience here...

You are going to just slow yours down, Oz. You have such a bad ass GT! why mess with it!?! I am usually 100% on the "yes-lets-see-what-we-can-make-it-do" camp. You know that.
BUT: if I had a GT that could pull GTS's up a hill, in a straight line... I probably wouldnt mess with it. Well, maybe I would. I am just about to get into this (not kidding)...
http://www.blouchturbo.com/turbos/IHI_RHB3/

Enjoy knowing once and for all that I am fully a dufus that will actually follow through on some foolish pursuits with a GTS. Now that I have a spare motor, who knows what ridiculous stuff I can get into...

Lemmy know what you do. Patrick was supposed to get me in on the super secret think tank email list, so i could share my triumphs and failures with you all.

I've limited options given my explorations on Saturday. Sigh. That head is toast.

Since the engine will be out, might as well kit the GT.

Well, now is your chance to go nuts. Gotcha.
GTS motor?

Hahaha I probably have a small budget to work with. Have other bikes that need love. GTS motor would be interesting but probably out of my budget. Heh.

You'll get a flavor of it in a few months though, eh?

It wont be for a few more months than we thought... nature changed its mind, unfortunately. Soon enough though... Hopefully just after my GTS turbo project finally WORKS.

Check this. The flowchart is sick for this little thing...
Need to customize the PM pipe to accommodate this, which will take a second to get it right.
This is the actual unit. It should be here soon:
(yes, I am a freak).

yikes, is that what I think it is???

heh. that's pretty crazy! Your bike will explode

Is that a turbo charger? If not, what is it?

OZ, maybe Rich would like to part with the evil Chucky's GTS engine. take it off his hands before he kills himself with it.

Joel, you are truly nuts. i think the turbo would work in your advantage more in the city than on the cannonball

Rob

ROB!

*hugs*

Chucky... is evil. don't want chucky's guts

and yes, Joel - you put a turbo in there and you're melting your engine. heh.

Just like everyone else on the intertubes, I have no experience and a place to see my opinion on a monitor. Plus I look just like Daniel Craig and am dating Gwyneth Paltrow.

Wasn't there a study recently that modified bikes needed more maintenance? Perhaps it was a real world test? It seems to me a bunch of scooterists scootered across a couple of states, and those with stock scooters had fewer issues than those that had modifications. Something about high performance scooters earning dog miles at a rate of 7:1 or some crazy number, can't remember who said that though either.

I would think that in 17.5 years when you're sending someone off to college, you can blow cash on a high performance rebuild-it every weekend engine. Why overload the crank, or the tranny? Because the next weak link will be sure to come to light as soon as you drop a 210 kit on your bitch. Or your scooter. Have you priced the Piaggio kit?

I know you're in some kind of recession-proof mid level asss SaaS company bzzzzzzzz, with a horde of canned goods in the garage for when the monkey riots start, but still, how full is the college fund?

Do the Polini OZ.....Rolfie went thru 5 Malossi 210 kits on Josh's GT before he got one that was machined okay or did not have cracks. Nuff said.

As for the turbo....someone is going to make it work......might as well be me......

or Joel.....

We shall see.

R

8)

Geeez, Ritch

That's what state school and student loans are for! Same with working through college! Thats' how her daddy and mommy did it, what's good enough for them is good enough for her!

I'm weighing options, nothing more. I'm perfectly ready to just fix this back to stock.

*mopes in corner*

Rich is just trying to help you as a pal... he doesnt want to see you go down the same dark path that I have chosen.

Yes, that is a turbo. Yes, I will make it work and probably wind up with an unreliable, frightening east coast "chucky" of my very own... BUT:
It will go straight due to the super swank-tastic suspension modifications that i cant wait to blab about in due time....
(if they wind up being as awesome as I THINK they will be, anyway.. lol)

you oughtta get that chainsaw at perma-garage sale across the street from your house and install that. make a statement and a sh*tload of noise.

30cc's of power, HERE WE COME!

At least it'll make a neat noise when I pull the ripcord to fire it up.

*WHAAAP-WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!*

Forget the turbo, just duct tape a leaf blower to the topcase and then use dryer hose down to the carb. use a string wrapped around the right hand grip to throttle up and down in sync with the GTS engine you will put in your bike.
Thank me later when you are going 38 mph on the freeway, screaming into your helmet in a full tuck...

Quarter mile, Joel. Quarter mile.

You run that turbo on CB2010, and I'll win it without even racing.

Yesterday your words were, "never again", or something like that.

The prospect of Joel bringing a turbo to the monkey-knife-fight that is Cannonball might be enough of an incentive to show up, if for no other reason than to watch it go "Boom!" on day two.

Hey Oz - I'll bet your marketing department can give you a spare one. They use leaf blowers with Fortune 500 Companies, and save the hair dryers for smaller companies.

you hate me an my fiscally solvent industry

This is more for fun than anything. Did I not learn anything this year?
I am going to ride a stock GTS with a 10 gallon gas tank in 2010.
The turbo is just for my commute. I want to see just how fast I can go between stoplights, which are about 9 feet away from each other all over my fair city.

The real answer to that will be how fast you can get an still brake before the next red. Hah.