Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Modified turbos and then some....new cycle project

 So I finally finished a little turbo rebuilding and mod video that I had been kind of working on from time to time over the past three months or so.
So as to the TURBO SV650: when the oil pump basically jammed on me, it broke the oil gear in the process and like a dumb ass, I drove it up the hill to my home. (the oil pump gears, which are three clover type rotors, lost tolerance just in wear, thus just jammed up from losing said tolerance. It broke the Teflon gear in two pieces. I replaced it with the steal one but realized I am better off with the Teflon one, as should this occur again, more damage to other components like the drive gear to the oil pump would have been damage not to mention gobs of steal grindings in the oil reservoir.) In the process I did a little damage to the journal bearings, or so it seems and probably put more wear on the rings as well.  Now I get ridiculous blow by even though there is no smoke on the exhaust and
compression is pretty decent. So I'm only guessing/ making a hypothesis that it's the excessive clearance in the journal bearing and possibly rings. I'll know for certain once I've taken it apart. The engine alone now has well over 136,000 miles. I don't know exactly anymore since the original speedometer got destroyed in the accident back in September of last year.

Now I'm deciding to either: Put an SV1000 engine in my poor little SV650 with EFI computer and all, or build an SV650 engine I have under my bench and leave it alone. But the SV650 now has a salvage title from the accident so it's just mine with no intention of ever selling it. So I'm thinking Hot Rod the hell out of it. Build a Turbo SV650 with a good title for selling.  I now have a TLS1000 that will get a turbo next spring or late winter that's also a driver now.   
We'll see how it all transpires!

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