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[skidlids]

Originally Posted by Imola Duke

£100 or £168 ????

Not Quite
Maxxis £115 (inc VAT) plus fitting costs
Pirelli £160 Fitted (From Holbeach in the paddock)

Selling of Scrubs

Maxxis = unknown
Pirellis = £40

Originally Posted by Imola Duke

And please keep Class B 583's

That is the intention, still lots of 583s out there, seems a regular amount going through the breakers yards these days, could just do with solving the Piston supply issue.

620s were thinned out a bit by Lily's and JPMs incident at Angelsey but Class A still accounted for 50% of the grid at Pembrey with at least a couple of the Class B competitors that day stepping up to Class A next year

How about anyone with a bus pass or a pensions book gets a 10 second head start, may attract a few from the Lansdowne series

[ells]

Very interested in everyones suggestions. As I will be starting next year I wont try to add to the thread except suggest that something needs to be done to assist the chubbier amongst us.

Would prefer it if the rules remained the same for a couple of years. Then that would give some time to think about where class A and B are really going.

Only thing I want is all of the entry forms etc up for next year so I can sign up before the boss changes her mind.

Mark.

[badgerpilot]

Originally Posted by ells

Very interested in everyones suggestions. As I will be starting next year I wont try to add to the thread except suggest that something needs to be done to assist the chubbier amongst us.

Slimfast?
Maybe a chubby championship? I'd sign up for it.

[Imola Duke]

Originally Posted by skidlids

could just do with solving the Piston supply issue.

You could take dimensions, fill the form in, and maybe explain the problem
within the race series with the piston issue.

http://www.jepistons.com/pdf/customp...-orderform.pdf

They may do us a good deal on a batch if enough are intrested and
it cut's out the middle man.

[skidlids]

Originally Posted by Imola Duke

You could take dimensions, fill the form in, and maybe explain the problem
within the race series with the piston issue.

http://www.jepistons.com/pdf/customp...-orderform.pdf

They may do us a good deal on a batch if enough are intrested and
it cut's out the middle man.

Neil at Cornerspeed an official Ducati service centre has already in contact with JE Pistons on our behalf as he uses them for Pistons for the 748 to 853 conversions.

[Imola Duke]

Originally Posted by skidlids

Neil at Cornerspeed an official Ducati service centre has already in contact with JE Pistons on our behalf as he uses them for Pistons for the 748 to 853 conversions.

hopefully they will produce the piston kits and list them on the site as a stock item like the 900ss 944ss,
But not HC

I bought a pair of 904cc hc pistons a few years ago when the pound was strong and got them for £150+ postage.

[skidlids]

Originally Posted by Imola Duke

hopefully they will produce the piston kits and list them on the site as a stock item like the 900ss 944ss,
But not HC

I bought a pair of 904cc hc pistons a few years ago when the pound was strong and got them for £150+ postage.

Hopefully that will be the case

as for buying Pistons

I had arrive yesterday a really good pair of 583 pistons and rings from a late (1999 - 2001) engine that I won on Ebay for 99p last week
Now to get the Class B bike built and get it running.

So far I have sold 583s to Andy Sheppard and Dallas, they seem to do OK on them. Andys was the earlier engine with 2:1 Primary and Dallas's the later engine with the 1.85 primary and Clutch Slave on the left. even my original Class B bike wasn't to bad netting me a few trophies

[Imola Duke]

Originally Posted by skidlids

Hopefully that will be the case

as for buying Pistons

I had arrive yesterday a really good pair of 583 pistons and rings from a late (1999 - 2001) engine that I won on Ebay for 99p last week
Now to get the Class B bike built and get it running.

So far I have sold 583s to Andy Sheppard and Dallas, they seem to do OK on them. Andys was the earlier engine with 2:1 Primary and Dallas's the later engine with the 1.85 primary and Clutch Slave on the left. even my original Class B bike wasn't to bad netting me a few trophies

I was lucky last winter when i found a pair of pistons/rings and cylinders
which had only done 2k miles. (got them for £100 complete)
Phil's got my old pistons which had covered 25k road miles and a seasons racing
they measured well out of tolerance and were scored badly on the skirts.
But it still ran
Pity I didn't check the static ignition timing last winter as it's a mile out
(retarded) max retard on pickup mount/adjuster plate

no wonder every class B rider past me down the straights

Note to self...... check the timing you retard!

[skidlids]

Originally Posted by Imola Duke

IPity I didn't check the static ignition timing last winter as it's a mile out
(retarded) max retard on pickup mount/adjuster plate

no wonder every class B rider past me down the straights

Note to self...... check the timing you retard!

I was amazed to find out how far the as delivered Cam timing can be out from the recommeded settings when checked, so it doesn't suprise me the same can apply to the Ignition timing, may well be one of the issues with my 620, note that at Cadwell your bike Steve was one of the few that didn't pull a gap on me out of the slower corners.