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EAST FORTUNE 13/14 OCTOBER 2007
You must be wondering why this was still a blank!
We decided not to race in this event as it was a North East Club meeting and not a Scottish Championship round. This would give us more time to get the bike stripped and the significant number of alterations started for next season.
It seems a long time from October till March but it soon flies when you are trying to develop the sidecar. For 2008 we are moving on to K5/K6 model GSXR 1000 engines. These run double injectors which means we have to accommodate slightly different throttle bodies, which in turn changes the airbox, which then affects the fairing.
So far we have, on the advice of BSD tuning, modified our new airbox (made by Jason Miller) to accommodate an air filter. We are also looking at ways of calming the air down in the box and standardising the volume. This should enable us to have more control over tuning. We have also got Richie Foss to adapt a new fuel fitting so that we can connect our fuel lines to the new throttle bodies. He has also modified the engine cradle with some assistance from Moray Firth Precision Engineering as, rather frustratingly, the K5/K6 engine mountings are about 5mm out of line from the K4. Richie has also replicated our bespoke brake cylinder and quick shifter bracket in aluminium which has dropped a fair bit of weight off the old prototype. It has also been reinforced to prevent the flex that we were getting at the end of the season that caused some issue with getting gears.
Meanwhile Alan Shand is busy creating a new wiring loom. Yes it’s also different! When he is finished with that he will be press ganged into cutting up the fairing to set in a new piece to go behind Kerr that will fit over the higher throttle body/air box arrangement.
Finally we are in the process of putting together a new set of wheels. This has not been without some anguish either as the paint we put on the centres never set properly and was kindly blasted back off by Moray Firth Precision. They also turned them down to leave them with a beautifully machined finish which now looks too nice to cover up. The rims are off getting anodised black so that they will be easier to keep clean. That’ll give us a nice construction job over Christmas.
Best wishes to you all
Kerr and Jen