So, In order to kit this bike properly, you must disassemble the entire engine to get at the weld points inside each housing. So I just start taking it apart and putting everything in some sort of order, and I split the case and find, whoa! The main bearings are shot! Not what I expected to find, the engine turrned perfectly! OK, so I found some bearings and seals and am awaiting shimpment.
Ok, Ill roll with it and Ill call the moped shop in Jersey that is going to port and weld my kit for me. They tell me the Imperial only lasts about 1000 mi and the labor is expensive. Its not the first time I had heard this about imperial kits, so I decide before I go any further I will return the Imperial kit and get a high quality kit from Treats HQ. Actually Treats will probably be where I get my Exhaust and Carb as well! So at any rate, as bad as I want a snap together Moped that will fire right up and scream like a scalded cat, it looks like Im a gonna have to take the long, route, but the well worth it route.
Ok, Ill roll with it and Ill call the moped shop in Jersey that is going to port and weld my kit for me. They tell me the Imperial only lasts about 1000 mi and the labor is expensive. Its not the first time I had heard this about imperial kits, so I decide before I go any further I will return the Imperial kit and get a high quality kit from Treats HQ. Actually Treats will probably be where I get my Exhaust and Carb as well! So at any rate, as bad as I want a snap together Moped that will fire right up and scream like a scalded cat, it looks like Im a gonna have to take the long, route, but the well worth it route.
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I am undertaking the unknown, in that, I am kitting my first Ped! The bike is an Itallian made 1978 Franco Morini Lazer. It came stock with a Fracno Morini M01, and I swapped it out for the M1, which I then promptly bought a kit for,...a 65cc Imperial. Only kit available for the M1.
When the kit arrived, I found that kits dont just 'bolt right up', in fact this one has to be TIG welded, and port matched. Im thinking of having Moped shop in NJ do this work. But kitting this is duanting, the ports are HUGE never-the-less, it should be sickningly fast. At first, I was like, skrew this, but now I realize Im must druge forth in order to make this project work, giving up is not an option.
My main goals are Torque, and Handeling. Cosmetcis are not important, it will be outfitted in the Ratbike tradition, with certain mindfull details towards asthetics.
Will keep you updated.Heres How it looked when I found it, dog and all....
I am undertaking the unknown, in that, I am kitting my first Ped! The bike is an Itallian made 1978 Franco Morini Lazer. It came stock with a Fracno Morini M01, and I swapped it out for the M1, which I then promptly bought a kit for,...a 65cc Imperial. Only kit available for the M1.
When the kit arrived, I found that kits dont just 'bolt right up', in fact this one has to be TIG welded, and port matched. Im thinking of having Moped shop in NJ do this work. But kitting this is duanting, the ports are HUGE never-the-less, it should be sickningly fast. At first, I was like, skrew this, but now I realize Im must druge forth in order to make this project work, giving up is not an option.
My main goals are Torque, and Handeling. Cosmetcis are not important, it will be outfitted in the Ratbike tradition, with certain mindfull details towards asthetics.
Will keep you updated.Heres How it looked when I found it, dog and all....
