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About 9 years ago I won the contract to gut out a 4 unit warehouse building to turn it into one bit space. It had a mezzanine that you could only get to by using a ladder or forklift. There were 7 totally disassembled ZX7's sitting on pallets. It had been used by tj4 cops to store stolen property and they had left them after moving out. I called them and they told me to throw them out. I made a small fortune selling all the parts on Ebay . Australians love zx7s. I must gave shipped half if it there. All totaled I made close to 9 grand canuck from their laziness

As one of my racing friends said....hold it wfo into the corner until you see God then back it off. But what the hell do I know? I just jump on the silly things and ride the piss out of them. That's why I like 450 cc motard so much. I can ride them balls to the wall and not exceed my skill set.

Shit that's pretty pathetic. I blame buck place has gone all to hell since he found his camera.

I flounced....and you fuckers didn't even notice.?

Pfft. I'm like that gas station hot dog you ate 9 years ago that's still in your stomach. I always can be found on one of Pete's forums. Usually in the first 10 who join

Do it. I put one on my xr650r and it transformed it. After I installed the big block kit in it and bumped it up to 680cc it was almost impossible to start when hot and there was a 50/50 chance the bastard would try to break your foot while kicking it. All that went away when converted the carb to a flat slide double pumper. 1 to 2 kicks cold or hot and she fires right up. I used a Edlebrock #3115 double pumper on mine. They list one for your klr as well. Last time I checked they were about $400 bucks

Dumber than a bag of hammers My dad used that one a lot

If it ain't broke ...don't fix it.

what you need is a nice turbocharged Blackbird I know a guy

We are about a hour away from our Easter feast. The turkey should be ready in about an hour. Since it's only Lynne and I this year we only bought a small 12 pound one. We are having my famous chorizo sausage and pecan stuffing, roast carrots and turnips along with garlic roast potatoes. Yum! Happy Easter Everyone.

That is the most absolutely perfect reply ever! Well done Pete.Top man, class and all the rest of that bullshit And my hats off to you as well Bob. Great one, i would have paid money to watch that in person.

nope... not even close to being offended, even his reply to me was more subpar than usual. I'm afraid Buck's gone soft.He's lost the plot. I think it started when he started driving the bus.

It's a great feeling. you are going to be amazed at how nice it is to not have that worry. It's like i'm free now and i can say screw it! if i don't want to work today then nope not going to do it. It took way longer than i thought it would but as you know housing costs here in Vancouver are insane. I never in a million years thought when i was young that my crappy house here in Delta would ever be worth well over a million bucks. Vancouver's done. there is no way a young couple alone can afford to buy a house here, a frigging condo ( flat for you euro types) start at $800000+ grand

We are celebrating (as much as Lynne and I can with the lockdown) with all restaurants closed for the next month I am roasting a prime rib roast with all the fixings including Yorkshire puddings. We have officially paid off all our debt! No more mortgage and all other debt is finally gone. It feels fucking great.

I'm offended that I had to waste my time reading this drivel to find out it isn't offensive and I'm not offended?

The only races i ever managed to get on the podium were in the rain. Up here if you don't race in the rain you are not racing This was at Portland in Oregon. It was a SV cup race and treacherous as hell as half the track was dry and the back half wet. i was slip sliding everywhere. it was funny because the day before the guys that i had a hard time keeping up with were all throwing out the anchor well before me coming into the the first right hander off the straight. most of the fast guys were from California and definitely did not like racing in the rain. here's another one. what do you do at a motard race when your XR650R blows it's rear shock..... remove the re from tard and drag the SV out of the trailer.

Actually the most reliable motor i have seen around here for high mile longevity is the GM LS v8's. The 4.8, 5.3, 6 or the new 6.2 liter ls series is incredibly strongly built stock from the factory. You can easily get well over 350,000 on them with only doing regular maintenance. The bottom ends are incredibly strong, no one else that i know of stock production v8's have 6 bolt main cranks or have as well designed oiling system as the LS series. My own 2006 sierra 1/2 ton 5.3 has 340'000 on it and still runs well. I go from oil change to oil change with out adding a drop of oil and it has had a hard life towing and being used as a contractors work truck. You can easily build LS's using stock blocks into 700 hp+ motors just by bolt on parts. Slap on a supercharger, a set of reworked heads, new cam, performance fuel injector set up and voila you get a very reliable motor with 700+HP for cheap. Try doing that with a modern Ford's v8 or eco boost or any of Chrysler's hemi's and get out your bank card because you are going to spend 15 grand plus to get the same hp out of it. As far as Japanese motors Toyota V6's and their 5.7 V8 are super reliable and good for lots of miles if maintained Their 4 banger not so much Toyota is still having head gasket problems on their 4 bangers in the Tacoma's. any of Nissan's V6 and 4 bangers are also great motors. Mazda still has issues it seems with seals and personally i would stay away from Hyundai along with it's son Kia. They are facing a 12 billion dollar class action lawsuit for early motor failure going back from now to 12 years ago. I have pulled wrenches for 30 plus years in various forms and have personally never seen a high mile Hyundai with out it having motor work done to it at some point.

Just over 220,000. The Toyota 3.0 ~3.5 liter v6's have a flaw in their design. The oil gallery return holes in the heads are a bit small and tend to plug up with gunk when they get higher miles on them. They can literally pump all their oil out of the pan and starve the crank. That's what i suspect happened here. I always change my oil at 4500 k but since it had 90,000 miles on it when i bought it i suspect that it was well on its way to being gunked up by then. Apart from that they are a great v6 capable of half a million or more if service regularly. if i wasn't such a lazy ass back yard mechanic and replaced the timing belt at the required 200,000 miles this wouldn't have happened. I would have caught it and could have cleaned all the goop out then. It's my own fault really but i have an excuse... Getting the rear head off in the sienna van is a real nightmare, especially if it has a rear heater and a/c option like mine had. Toyota allows 12 hours for re and re in their service book but i have seen it take way longer if there are any issues getting all the fuel rail plumbing and intake off or with stuck hardware on the exhaust manifold. so i spun the wheel and took my chances................BOOM! guess that's why i don't gamble

Yup motors are heavy KABOOM! VERSION2.0 My wife's sienna died 2 days ago. Got the engine out today and stripped it down. BOOM! spun the number 1 main bearing. Cranks bent so she's toast. As the Queen song says.... and another Toyota bites the dust. The heap hauler just took her away

what he said

I go away for a while and all hell breaks loose. The forum seems fine the way it was to me. Personally I think it's people getting stressed out by the lockdowns and covid crap.

that's cheap. the average house here in Vancouver has just past 1.8 million Canadian. my shitty old 1970's 2500 square foot house on a 60 by 129 foot lot out in the suburbs ( North Delta) is worth 1.2 million. it's insane the whole world has bought up Vancouver and driven the prices through the roof

And you never will. They engineered it as a weapon and this is just a test run. Their viral weapons labs are in wuhon about a block away from the meat market where it supposedly started