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zipidachimp Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 1459 surrey, b.c. Gender:	Re: 1987 Savage Street Tracker build Reply #780 - 08/27/22 at 12:35:43 What's with the RX7 ? Up here, you can't give away an RX8 ! Cheers!
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TheSneeze Serious Thumper Offline Posts: 1313 Northern Nevada Gender:	Re: 1987 Savage Street Tracker build Reply #781 - 08/27/22 at 13:18:26 I raced in a spec class called Pro-7. I raced from 1996 to 2004 with the California Sports Car Club (SCCA).I ran at California Speedway, Willow Springs, and Buttonwillow raceway. Never made it to Laguna Seca, unfortunately. How to make a million dollars racing? Start with two million dollars...
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TheSneeze Serious Thumper Offline Posts: 1313 Northern Nevada Gender:	Re: 1987 Savage Street Tracker build Reply #782 - 08/30/22 at 14:13:44 In a "I'm not paying to reshoot this tank" moment, I went ahead and put the graphics on the tank.
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TheSneeze Serious Thumper Offline Posts: 1313 Northern Nevada Gender:	Re: 1987 Savage Street Tracker build Reply #783 - 08/30/22 at 14:14:23 left side
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LANCER Serious Thumper Alliance Member Online Savage Beast Performance Parts Posts: 10801 Oklahoma Gender:	Re: 1987 Savage Street Tracker build Reply #784 - 08/30/22 at 17:33:32 Love the wolf and your bikes lines.
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TheSneeze Serious Thumper Offline Posts: 1313 Northern Nevada Gender:	Re: 1987 Savage Street Tracker build Reply #785 - 09/01/22 at 11:35:12 The nugget finally made it to the cleaning table. Rather odd, since it took quite a while to clean off the cleaning table! First point of order is to get the center case cleaned and paint ready. It will be getting the same paint as the cylinder - semigloss black by PJ1.
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TheSneeze Serious Thumper Offline Posts: 1313 Northern Nevada Gender:	Re: 1987 Savage Street Tracker build Reply #786 - 09/01/22 at 11:35:45 side 2
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Re: 1987 Savage Street Tracker build
Reply #787 - 09/29/22 at 07:44:14

I needed to get my other bike onto my lift for some work, so I put the kick stand on the tracker and rolled it off the lift. One thing I found out that no one mentioned - when you use the stock lower triple clamp as an upper to allow ride height adjustability, and use the stock tank, the triple clamp will hit the tank before the steering stops make contact. This probably is not an issue with the shortened Ryca tank. Luckily I discovered the interference without damaging my tank or paint job. Another thing to address. First thought was to add welds to the stop to build them up, but everything is already powder coated.

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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: 1987 Savage Street Tracker build Reply #788 - 09/29/22 at 08:05:19 Can you cut aluminum, drill and tap the clamp and attach the aluminum to it to fill the gap? If not, yeah, okay, everything is powder coated, but who is ever going to see the steering stops? You could drill and tap those, couldn't you? Glue and screw spacers on it there?
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Reply #789 - 09/30/22 at 08:28:12

Some good ideas there, JOG. I am still mulling things over. In the meantime, I am getting one of the Dodge Dakota trucks out of my shop. Two was too many! Lots of vehicle moving going on just to work on this or that. While a giant hole has been exposed in the vehicle inventory, I am taking advantage the new found space to build my gantry crane. It will remove yet another large crate and free up more space. My shop is like a large game of Tetris. Shocked

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'86 LS650g Savage (parts bike)
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Reply #790 - 10/12/22 at 13:43:21

I picked up my Antigravity 801 battery back in February this year. I charged it when I got it, and it has been sitting unused since. I am not that experienced with lithium ion batteries. I know that lead acid, and even some sealed gel cell batteries can lose some charge sitting over time. So I decided to put the special lithium ion battery charger on it to keep it charged. Got say I was pleasantly surprised when the charger said it was full in less than a couple minutes! This battery hold a charge on the shelf very well.

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Every twenty minute job is a stripped thread away from being a three day ordeal.

'87 LS650h Savage Street Tracker (destroyed by fire)
'86 LS650g Savage (parts bike)
'81 Kawasaki KZ750e ELR tribut

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Gary_in_NJ Serious Thumper Offline LS650 Cafe Racer Posts: 2642 Amongst the Twisty Roads	Re: 1987 Savage Street Tracker build Reply #791 - 10/12/22 at 16:19:14 Lead acid and AGM lose 1% charge per day. Lithium Iron Phosphate loses 1% per month.
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antmanbee Full Member Offline 4 Moto Guzzis and an S40 Posts: 101 NE Florida	Re: 1987 Savage Street Tracker build Reply #792 - 10/12/22 at 18:38:45 Could you link the incandescent tail light you got? I'm needing a tail light for a project of mine and was almost going to get the LED one you first had. Glad I read through your thread and didn't buy it. Thanks
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Re: 1987 Savage Street Tracker build
Reply #793 - 11/25/22 at 21:58:32

TheSneeze wrote on 10/12/22 at 13:43:21:

I picked up my Antigravity 801 battery back in February this year. I charged it when I got it, and it has been sitting unused since. I am not that experienced with lithium ion batteries. I know that lead acid, and even some sealed gel cell batteries can lose some charge sitting over time. So I decided to put the special lithium ion battery charger on it to keep it charged. Got say I was pleasantly surprised when the charger said it was full in less than a couple minutes! This battery hold a charge on the shelf very well.

How is your progress going on this project, The Sneeze? Love everything you’ve done, but haven’t heard anything for awhile. I hope you’re doing ok!

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Re: 1987 Savage Street Tracker build
Reply #794 - 11/30/22 at 08:02:41

Life has been a bit crazy lately. I just got in late last night from the last travel trip for around three months. I can honestly say I am tired of traveling. On that note, I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving holiday! I am looking forward to getting back into my shop and getting some progress, but now it is too cold to paint the engine cases. I plan on picking up a respirator so I can get the temp up enough to paint inside my shop with the doors closed. This morning it was 12 degrees outside, and a snow storm is headed our way for the next three days. Winter weather hit like a light switch this year. We literally went from mid 70's to upper 30's and low 40's. So much for fall... Roll Eyes

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Every twenty minute job is a stripped thread away from being a three day ordeal.

'87 LS650h Savage Street Tracker (destroyed by fire)
'86 LS650g Savage (parts bike)
'81 Kawasaki KZ750e ELR tribut

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