Stoned? Feeling Doom & Gloom?

Listen to Spirit Caravan...Wino's old band he formed after The Obssessed.

Fender for sale...

Sitting at home sick can be boring, so I decided to go through some stuff I could sell.

I got this peak ribbed fender from Front Street a while back and am not going to use it anymore. He charges like $130 shipped for them, so I'll say $100 shipped. It is a 5" wide fender radiused for a 16" wheel. The weird looking area is where I photoshopped out my last name.

A package from Jeff at FTW Co...

Thanks man. I'm glad my contributions are worthy.

No posts...

I'm laid up sick today. Everyone around me had some sort of bug the last few days and I guess I was the last to catch it.

A little deeper...

No .600 lift cam, but a .485...the Andrews B grind, which is not quite as big as I would've expected for a built 98"er, but perfectly streetable without a fucked up idle.

The B grind next to a Sifton RE112. You can tell the difference between their lift, duration, lead-in ramps, etc. just from looking at the pic.

Aside from nasty oil, the cam chest was clean. There was also a metal breather gear in there, giving me a little sigh of relief.

Murdered out...

Jason sent me these pics earlier. Made especially for me with everything blacked out that could be. Baker's new 4 speed. I can't wait for it to get here.

Monday...short week though.

More progress 2...

I got into the motor this weekend.


Nothing like a little red RTV to seal things up...Jesus. Luckily, I found out that the reason the front rocker box was leaking was because it was missing two nuts...one of them being that 9th mount in the front that I talked about when splitting the other set of rocker boxes...that oughta be a lesson to people who chops those out.

Found a set of high lift Andrews titanium retainers in it. That means it's running around a .600 cam. I guess I'll find out in the next day or two for sure.

Label them pushrods...this motor was nasty.

I thought the crank seal was leaking, but it looks like oil was coming down from above and running into the stator plug and coming out around the rotor on the bottom.

More progress...

Whachoo know bout stoppin' dem bikes?

Me, Seth and Eric went out to Mike Saligoe's shop since I don't have some of the more heavy tools at my house. Mike started Atlanta Monster Cycles with his son Zack a few years ago and has had a couple of bikes featured, but Zack has since moved away and Mike now does any kind of metal work for anyone around Atlanta when it's something outside of their ability. This guy knows metal better than anyone I know and learned it by building Indy and Sprint cars for years in Indiana. He'll tell you stories all day long about hand hammered .030" chromoly sheet metal to make Indy bodies and how things went wrong after the teams stopped making their own cars. If you need any bracket or anything made at all...he can do it.

We started off by milling a little off of a bracket that we found to work with the Hella 500 headlight that I wanted to run.


Then we went on to cutting out the caps so the new caps and bungs, as well as the new mounting tab can go on.

I had to catch one of those moments where Mike was telling a story. He'll keep any motornerd entertained for hours. He also works for Advanced Armament during the week welding up silencer bodies...pretty cool gig, huh?

Stolt pic Friday...

A couple more...

Another shot with better lighting for the shit of it. I'm 50/50 on those fork boots.

If anyone has read this for a while and remembers, I got these tanks for free from a dude on the JJ. The front top mount on the left side was booger welded back on and was made from flat stock, so I ordered a tab kit from Ted's. I'll redo that mount, take out that one dent, put in the new caps/bungs and let my buddy Eric start prepping them for paint.

Coming together...

The front end is back together and I'm not totally happy with it just yet...it'll get there. I don't know about the fork boots either.

I had a bunch of folks commenting about the anodized fittings on the JJ...I don't care. I'm not going for "period" or any other bullshit on this. I kinda like the idea of the mutant baby of a racer and classic styling so I got some anodized gas caps to use on my set of OEM (OMG he's gonna cut up OEM tanks!!!) 3.5 gallon bobs.

Motor cart...

Since my bench is packed full and in the process of rebuilding two Shovelheads, I thought it would be ideal to have a cart specifically for building motors. That way I could get them off the bench, roll them around, push them down the street when I get pissed...you know.

Sears has these on sale for $63.99 right now. That's cheaper than you can get one of those Rubbermaid plastic carts for. I went and picked one up yesterday.

I love when I come up on stuff I haven't seen before...

Badass pictures:
The Shit Machete

The aftermath...

With parts laying everywhere and oil all over the place, I needed to clean this place before I started putting the old goat back together.

I need a motor cart...

This bench is TOO crowded.

T-shirt printing...

Anyone got the hookup?

More badass paint...

Troy from Mastodon's custom shop Fender Deluxe P Bass dons a Silverburst that's typically only associated with Gibsons. You don't see too many burst finishes on bikes though...hmmm...

Badass...

Sitting as Austin Speed Shop...I stole these pics.

I don't know why, but...

Something about the term "Pan/Shovel" gets under my skin. I could understand a little more if it were a '48-'65 bottom end with Shovel heads on it, but for someone to use the same term about '66-'69 motors blows my mind. Yes, it has generator cases, but it still came from the factory as a Shovelhead...not a Panhead. And Pans weren't the only motors to come in genny cases either.

Oh yeah...it's Monday.

I almost forgot.

Stripped, cleaned, chrome sanded....

And almost ready for reassembly. I busted my ass over the weekend and plan on doing it again all next weekend. I've got a ton to do and only about six weeks to do it.

First Stolen Friday of 2010...

I love the '71 Super Glide.

"I am immortal..."

Badass chopper...

I love this paint scheme. Magnum P.I. was a badass.

Almost there...

I'll finish pulling it apart tomorrow so I can clean the shit out of the frame on Saturday. I'm going to leave the 80's metallic blue and molding on the frame for a little flavor, so once the frame is all cleaned up, I can start putting it back together.

You've gotta love...

Drinking beer with someone who has a Nazi rabbit and tears their bike apart in their living room.

Need a cure for insomnia?

Lace a wheel...

Dammit again...

So my buddy Joe comes to me with a Craigslist ad for an '80 longbed 2wd C10 with a sbc 400 in it for $1000. It's not running, but sounds like it could be for a little more money.

Dammit Joe. I gotta finish these bikes.

Photo courtesy of Sport Truck magazine...obviously.

Another one that's been around...

I could still stare at it for an hour though.

A little better pic...

I'll be scrubbing on a bare frame this weekend and putting her back together starting next week.

FTW Co...

If you haven't bothered checking it out yet, then make sure you go over to FTW Co. I'm contributing to the Ride Project for Georgia.

FTW Co.

FTW Ride-Georgia

Stripping...

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Starting off the new year...

Bike is almost stripped to bare frame, new trans comes in this week, getting all of the primary shit sorted out, getting ready to top end the motor, putting the new back wheel/brake/fender/tag/light combo on, gotta build a seat pan and sissy bar, sand down the oil tank chrome, do some new caps and fix the 3.5 gallons, new paint, set up the jockey shift, new bars, new hand controls, and set up some new front brakes...holy shit that's a lot.

There will be plenty of pictures to follow.

Happy New Year.