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I am actually tempted to keep the fuel tank as is poss together with the forks (with new internals and some bellows) and knobby tyres - I'm not aiming for a cafe racer. In two minds on what to do with the controls, either refurb the originals or bin the whole lot and fit motogadget stuff - love to get rid of the miles and miles of wiring but it would be easy to run up a big bill swapping over to their kit.

Yeah, sorry should have said that isn't the std manifold, the plastic one is in the bin. Originally there were two plastic boxes, the collector box that goes on top of the throttle bodied then another one which has the MAS in it. To use the MAS exposed I need to make a bracket for it as it's just hanging in the breeze at the moment. I'll weld a tab to the frame and bolt the bracket back to that. The original collector box had a series of washers in each of the 4 internal tubes to restrict the airflow - its been someone's A2 bike at some stage.

I cannot argue with that ... but I like it Its this thing ... I could totally get rid of it if I bought a set of 16v throttle bodies plus the 16v fuel injection unit ... but I have to do everything the hard way. Looks better from the other side.

Thanks @Buckster, Seen the delete kits for the 16v versions but mine is an 8 so apparently they don't work due to the different fuel injection controls, so I have to keep the sodding thing. Ill try it rotated and see what happens

Thanks, it’s on a BMW K100 so bike not a car. It’s big and ugly so was looking to get rid but changing its orientation will help. I’ll just try it and see I guess.

I've come to the conclusion that I can't delete this thing. I think it's made by Bosh, it's on my BMW, originally housed in an ugly plastic box between the intake filter and the induction manifold. Appears to have a spring loaded metal flap in it which is opened progressively as airflow increases, I assume to vary the timing. It was originally mounted so that the pivot spindle around which the flap rotates was vertical, so the flap thing moved on the horizontal plane - not influenced by gravity. Any idea if I can rotate it so the spindle is horizontal and the flap thing will move in the vertical plane? The flap thing doesn't have much mass and it still closes against the stop when rotated.

London last night for a few beers and a curry with a group of old friends. Bit of a headache this morning. Spent the train ride home resisting the temptation to add my 2pence worth to a discussion someone was having expounding the benefits of Farage/ Reform with anyone else who would listen. Now going to spend an enjoyable day in the garage

I’ve not been out at all this month, work crap, medical crap and just crap…

Happy birthday !!!

I got to the point where I couldn't walk across a room sometimes. The worst part was when it was bad it wasn't possible to move about or find a position where it didn't hurt.

I feel your pain and remember what that is like, so glad I don’t have it anymore.

I was welding a fixing to the frame of my K100 to increase the height of the front of the tank a bit and thought it smelled odd as I was welding, turns out I picked up a brass filler rod by mistake so its now brazed rather than welded. Can't be arsed to cut it off and start again ... seems secure so I'll go with it

Nice looking bike...!

You are lucky you can get them apart, lots seem to come as sealed units now.

This time of year, not unusual, but equally it could be 10degC next week