Some new 500 pics

[Billy Golightly]

Took em this evening, thought you guys might enjoy them.


http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s100/HondaATC/500R%20Flat%20Tracker/5-3-08%20Out/P1010100Large.jpg

http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s100/HondaATC/500R%20Flat%20Tracker/5-3-08%20Out/P1010092Custom.jpg

http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s100/HondaATC/500R%20Flat%20Tracker/5-3-08%20Out/P1010079Custom.jpg

http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s100/HondaATC/500R%20Flat%20Tracker/5-3-08%20Out/P1010071Custom.jpg

http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s100/HondaATC/500R%20Flat%20Tracker/5-3-08%20Out/P1010087Custom.jpg

http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s100/HondaATC/500R%20Flat%20Tracker/5-3-08%20Out/P1010084Custom.jpg

http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s100/HondaATC/500R%20Flat%20Tracker/5-3-08%20Out/P1010094Custom.jpg

http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s100/HondaATC/500R%20Flat%20Tracker/5-3-08%20Out/P1010101Custom.jpg

http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s100/HondaATC/500R%20Flat%20Tracker/5-3-08%20Out/P1010102Custom.jpg


Haven't got to paint the bottom of the frame yet...need to be getting to that but I'd like to have something that matches at least half ass well and thats been pretty hard. Powdercoat sometime, no idea when :lol: I need scoops and a new # plate for it (syko's gonna hook me up with that I think, hes da man :naughty:) Get those on there and I think it'll be pretty sharp.

[84honda200s]

i like it so far. she fast ??

[dizasterzrfun69]

you might wanna get some antibiotics for that tumor on the pipe.:lol: :lol: looking good though.

[Billy Golightly]

Infinitely faster then my old 270R. The 500 motor is geared probably "2 gears" higher then the 270 with the same ratio 15/36 and it pulls way harder then the 270. Hell the 450s that are so built they are scattering themselves all over the track every other race are getting pulled by this ole pos hahaha. Of course they stay on the throttle into the corners longer then I am (for now, hehehe) and end up blowing by me that way but on the straights its extremely competitive.

[Billy Golightly]

you might wanna get some antibiotics for that tumor on the pipe.:lol: :lol: looking good though.



Shhhhhhhhh! Dude that thin stuff is hard to weld :eek: You can see the 3 sections in the middle I screwed up on the worst, those had huge gaps around them that had to be filled. Most everything else fit together pretty tightly and didn't require any "stacking" :lol:

[edog]

Do you have one exhaust spring holding that pipe on?

[200x Basket]

you might wanna get some antibiotics for that tumor on the pipe.:lol: :lol: looking good though.

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: Lookin good!!

i would love to set my bike up like that for some fun!!! You should be able to kill the 450r's on the straights.

here is a vid of me killing one :beer

http://s241.photobucket.com/albums/ff257/gdkarma1/?action=view&current=100_1498.flv

i let eric gorr port on the cylinder some and it smoothed the hit out some and gave me some more topend. I plan to get a radar run in a couple days to see what the top speed is.

[Billy Golightly]

Do you have one exhaust spring holding that pipe on?

At the cylinder? Yes, because the other tab in the casting broke out. The pipe is bolted in 3 other places and isn't going anywhere unless something breaks off (which has happened twice already, nice vibration eh)

Basket, its real easy to set one up this way. I love the way this thing rides and feels, just because of how it is lowered. It half tempts me to lower the trail riders and stuff, maybe not as much, but just more then stock, to get a better feel out of them too.

[200x Basket]

the vibs broke my shock rezzy mount and the left radiator mount twice!!

[Billy Golightly]

You see how the knobb on mine is all scarred up? Guess what happened and where it got into :lol:

[200x Basket]

At the cylinder? Yes, because the other tab in the casting broke out. The pipe is bolted in 3 other places and isn't going anywhere unless something breaks off (which has happened twice already, nice vibration eh)




if you look on the bottom of the pipe there should be another spring loop. there should be a "L" shaped bracket with two holes bolted to the lower exhaust flage bolt. Look on service honda's site for a pic. I used a 520 chain master link and bent it like a "L"

[Billy Golightly]

Hmmm. This cylinder originally had a little aluminum loop thing on the bottom of it under the exhaust port behind the flange that it hooked into, but I was stretching some slightly to short springs on it and ended up pulling it out. That must have been something somebody made, never knew that.

[Kintore]

Lookin good bill, you dont run beadlocks on something like that?

[Billy Golightly]

After seeing pictures like one, THIS (http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s100/HondaATC/September2007003.jpg) I probably should be (note to self, do not go out in practice with 3psi in the outside tire) but generally, na. You just keep em at high enough pressures theres no real chance of them coming off unless you do something like I did in that above picture.

[edog]

After seeing pictures like one, THIS (http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s100/HondaATC/September2007003.jpg) I probably should be (note to self, do not go out in practice with 3psi in the outside tire) but generally, na. You just keep em at high enough pressures theres no real chance of them coming off unless you do something like I did in that above picture.

Maybe you should get bead lock rims for the rear.:lol: :welcome:

[atctim]

Lookin good Billy. Nasty as hell - ain't they?

I should be getting mine buttoned up in the next few weeks - and will have a pic thread for her! What a pain it has been - but I finally got the bugs worked out and solved my problem yesterday!

[Billy Golightly]

Did ya Tim? Don't need that head then? I hadn't got to ship it out yet.

[Billy Golightly]

http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s100/HondaATC/500R%20Flat%20Tracker/P1010032.jpg
http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s100/HondaATC/500R%20Flat%20Tracker/P1010024-1.jpg
http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s100/HondaATC/500R%20Flat%20Tracker/P1010039.jpg



A few more new ones with the smaller front tire on it.

[BigGreenMachine]

Nice stance! How well does that thing slide on pavement?

[200x Basket]

I think we need a 500r pic sticky to post them all in!!!

what size is that front tire?

[Billy Golightly]

18/6/10 American racer in SD23 compound (Which I believe is the softest compound they make.

[Bad Karma]

What's the brass fitting with the hose near the reed block for?

[SWIGIN]

thats for the NAWWWS....lol

[Billy Golightly]

Use to be for a fuel pump when I ran alcohol while it was in the drag chassis. no need for it now.

[Bryan Raffa]

Billy thats one bad *Edited**Edited**Edited**Edited**Edited* bike! whats the shrouds off of? they look huge.:naughty:

pure racin machine there..I hope one day you will dismantel that and powder Coat everything and polish till it can't be polished anymore!

But NOT Till Your done Kickin the ever living Crap with it, on the track .. a True Racer in my Book! :twisted:

[200x Basket]

raffa

that is a short track kit for the shrouds

[chavo80]

hell yeah lookin good man...can't wait to get my hands on a 500 for my trike!

[Billy Golightly]

Yeah raffa those are regular old short track shrouds. Alan (syko) leme have them on the condition that they be used to make some repros when I get a chance and I do intend to do that. The test to see how much of a racer it really is will be in a short 2 days, we'll see what it does down there at Ocala on the 3/8 mile track. I'm expecting 85-90 mph on the straights, lets see if I can get it there :) One of these days I will tear the thing down and P/C polish/chrome a bunch of stuff but at this point its more of a runner then a looker so it sorta suits itself :)

[Russell 350X]

Wow Billy, that looks awsome! You gonna be racing it at TF this year? (duh lol)

[Billy Golightly]

lol, I'm not sure. I'll have it there to putter around with hopefully but I'm not sure how competitive it'll actually be in the drags.

[Bryan Raffa]

I knew you had the shorttrack kit on that..them shrouds just look bigger..maybe the front tire is giveing that effect...dont brake them before you get copys..ha. that is no Jinx, so dont blame me if you do LOL

Keep refineing it and Racing it ...get it Honed in for the track and then Bling it!

Good luck and go kick some teeth in:)

[Billy Golightly]

Yeah that front tire makes EVERYTHING look big lol even the rears they are 16s and the front is an 18 and it still looks way smaller dont it?

[Bryan Raffa]

hey arron has some Mini flat track tires.. and there grooveable;)

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/AMERICAN-RACER-KIDS-ATV-FLAT-TRACK-TT-TIRES-REAR-15x6-8_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp1713Q2em153Q2el1262QQ categoryZ43983QQihZ005QQitemZ150211158270QQtcZphot o

then that front tire would be big again:D

[BigGreenMachine]

O WoW I want some of those! Lot nights with those on the Tecate would be a hoot.

[oldsking86]

Hey Billy, that swinger stock length? I don't know, just seems a tad longer, that or it's the new stance that is throwing me off haha

[The Goat]

honestly looks like a 2 over...once you factor in the 16inch tires, they seem to be sticking out a little far out back.

90mph in the straight stretches....i think i need a 500 conversion gentlemen.

[Billy Golightly]

Nope, its an 86 stock swingarm that was chrome plated. Nothin extended here folks :) And honestly it doesn't even need the extension, even with it still being a 500 I bet I could run a -1 and it'd be manageable with the way I have the suspension setup.

[Jason Hall]

Billy, that bike looks like a true racer!!! The engine looks as If It was born their lol.

The frame's shape looks great, and the pipe. I like It he he.

[Billy Golightly]

Thanks Jason...I think it did turn out really well. The pipe will be getting a make over sometime, not exactly sure when but it will sometime in the future :)

[Billy Golightly]

Piston detonated and then tried to seize to the cylinder, stuck the rings at the race over the weekend. Trying to track down the cause of the detonation right now as I don't believe it was jetting related because there were no signs on the plug of detonation that I know of.

http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s100/HondaATC/500%20Seizure/P1010013Large.jpg

[84honda200s]

ouch billy.......ya gotta stop beating the poor thing. lmao just playn.





my old kawasaki 440cc sled motor was like that but worse. ill see if i still have the pistons. anyway that looks deff. look like jetting. almost too lean.

[BigGreenMachine]

Get it back to running condition yet Billy? How fast was that thing on the straights?

[tri-Z ripper]

well back to what we all do best is work on it some more!!

[Billy Golightly]

I feel confident I was running in the low to mid 60s on the slow end of the track where the radar gun was...on the far side you could open it up a lot more because it was sort of a odd shape. I had to be bouncing 70, maybe a little bit more over there. The track was a lot drier then I and a lot of people had anticipated, and it wasn't until the main when I blew it that I was comfortable enough to stay onto the throttle coming into the corners. By then there was enough rubber laid down that it was gripping good enough.

I've got another cylindered pretty much prepped and I think ready to go using a stock bore piston laying around I had, ended up having about .005 piston the cyl clearance which is good enough for me for the time being. I'm holding off my re-assembly until I can repair a crack I found in the frame at the bottom motor mount already (not very encouraging, however I think it was to the fact when I welded it the mount bowed outwards, and as it was tightened to the motor it pulled it in to far and stressed it causing the crack because the other side is fine). And I'm also going to try and get some paint on the bottom of the frame as well. Gonna be a fugly sob with a probably black bottom portion of the frame and the rest of it the oem red but hey its temporary.

[200x Basket]

ouch, been there and done that.... sorry about the bad luck.

[3Razors]

I can only imagine the stares that trike brings at the races. Its cool you are "representin" the trikes on the flattrack!