In response to the guy who put me in the 'expert tuner' group, sorry, I'm just a VMAX and sportbike parts guy, who has tried to keep his ears and eyes open, all along the way, and has gleaned lots of info on the VMAX, most of it good, some bad...I try to weed the bad out, as I go...But THANX for that vote of confidence anyway!!! BTW, is the guy that talked about 'Front Range' dynos, living in CO? I am TRYING(operative word here...the phone list was a bust...) to get an online CO VMAX Riders List going, at- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any and all VMAX riders and friends are invited to join; should be an easy way to get rides and happenings going, for MAXers in CO... I learned a MOST VALUABLE tip, from a VMAX mini-sprint contact, regarding oil starvation problems, the SCOURGE of many a motor, both stock and modified, and a solution for the excessive blowby often found in airboxes and filters, especially among those of us who like to wind it up!!!... This particular guy, after doing this mod, has RACED, in a mini-sprint(MUCH harder than most of us could ever push our 2-wheelers...) a MAX motor, ON ALCOHOL(VERY hard on motors, AND OIL...) for 6 YEARS, with NO oil-related rod or crank failures(he seized one rod, but found that the bearing clearance had just been too tight...)... This got my attention immediately, with all the motor parts I have in stock, from this type of failure... What he told me next, just FLOORED me... The CAUSE of oil starvation in a VMAX motor, as well as the excessive blowby at sustained RPM, is due, in large part, to the small cup, at the bottom of the oil return line, in the bottom of the oil pan, which is held in by one bolt, and EASILY removed... He stated that, after removing this cup, and allowing the oil to return, without restriction, to the pan, and hence the pickup, to be used again...that his oil blowby went from excessive, to nearly nil(2 or 3 drops, after a 20 lap race...)and bearing failure, due to oil starvation, became non-existent. Needless to say, I will not install another motor in frame, nor will I even do another aftermarket exhaust install, WITHOUT advising the customer to drop the pan, and remove the little sheetmetal cup from it... This, for me anyway, is the biggest thing, bigger than the frontend 'fix', or the benefits of frame bracing; both of those were major breakthroughs for me, in my VMAX 'learning curve', but nothing like this..... Hope this helps save someone else's VMAX motor, although it just may bring the price of replacement MAX motors down...guess THAT just kinda shoots me in the foot, from a biz standpoint... Oh well, guess there is lots of other parts to sell anyway...LOL John RMSportMax.com 303-638-VMAX ............................................. To unsubscribe go to http://www.sayegh.org/unsubscribe.htm .............................................
