Oily facts

This post will be about oil. You might think; what does oil has to do with scooter tuning? Well, more than you might think.

Read on to find out!

World fastest sprinter?

Today I visited my friend who enters in the Dutch drag racing championship and who is one of the top 3 competitors. For this season (2011) he has build his engine from scratch and today it was testing time.

Another build: Stage 6 Racing. Update: Movieclip

UPDATE: See end of this page.

Just wanted to show a couple of pictures of a Stage 6 Racing engine I tuned this weekend.

I had to buy an case for this customer, since his old wasn't usable anymore (stator came loose, destroying the threads for the screws. I was bought used, but in "good shape". Yes it is dirty, but it was used on a daily driver, which was completely stock. IMO this is what you want if you buy a second hand case. It is then all yours to tamper with.

Porting a cylinder

In my previous post I showed you pictures of a ported cylinder. In this post I will explain more on how to port a cylinder. What are the basics, what formula's should be used and how do you decide what timings you should use.

Tuning and rebuilding a Piaggio engine

In this post I will show you a build of a Piaggio engine I did for one of my friends. He uses his scooter (Gilera Runner) for daily driving. Although he already had a respectable daily driver setup, he wanted more. He asked if I could take a “look”.