novacaine
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| posted on 19/8/08 at 01:53 PM |
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How many miles is too many?
I’m looking into buying a bike engine fairly soon and get it running on the megasquirt V3 kit I’m currently assembling.
I’ve found a cheap 1997 blade engine (think it’s the 919) from an RRV
It’s got 27k miles on it
Is that a lot?
If that was a car engine that would be barely worn in, but is that a lot for a bike?
Cheers
Matt
And you run and you run to catch up with the sun but its sinking, Racing around to come up behind you again, the sun is the same in a relative way but
your older, shorter of breath and one day closer to death
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BenB
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| posted on 19/8/08 at 01:56 PM |
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Depends on the engine!!!!
ST1100s go for hundreds of thousands of miles. The cambelt change is @ 100,000 
Not sure about blade engines.... 
Most blades crash long before 27k- is it seriously cheap???
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Dangle_kt
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| posted on 19/8/08 at 02:08 PM |
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If you read up on early blades a number of them have done 100k + with no major work required.
They are bulletproof.
However like any engine, if not regularly serviced, and if thrashed within an inch of its life everyday it won't hold up as well as a more cared
for example.
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afj
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| posted on 19/8/08 at 02:27 PM |
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Bike engines are almost always good for 60k+ but the first problems for many bike engines are gearbox related
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Flamez
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| posted on 19/8/08 at 02:45 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by novacaine
I’m looking into buying a bike engine fairly soon and get it running on the megasquirt V3 kit I’m currently assembling.
Can you use megasquirt on bike engines? I thought power commanders were the tool of preferance?
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StevieB
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| posted on 19/8/08 at 04:56 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Dangle_kt
If you read up on early blades a number of them have done 100k + with no major work required.
They are bulletproof.
I once read an article about a guy who rode around the world on a blade without too many issues
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IDONTBELEIVEIT
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| posted on 19/8/08 at 05:10 PM |
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yeah but i think thats only 20,000 miles(10,000 to australia)
Are We There Yet, Are We There Yet!!!!
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Paul TigerB6
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| posted on 19/8/08 at 05:38 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Flamez
Can you use megasquirt on bike engines? I thought power commanders were the tool of preferance?
Well for starters that blade is carbed so all it should need is a Dynojet kit. So why the MegaSquirt which runs injection then (and i ditn think it
allowed for high enough revs anyway for a BEC??
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