yamaha 650 special

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Slim's Haymaker. Sickest fucking two stroke triple to date. I can't wait until he gets this bad bitch running down the road. I know what hye has in to that motor, so this thing is going to be retarded fast.

Yeah, Slim's bike is sick! He is a super cool guy to! I tried to get out to his shop the day after born free but ran outta time.

Was standing fucking around with my buddy Billy chatting about joining his band and taking off the clutch side cover to polish it up at work and noticed a piece of wire hanging out between the clutch plates.... So I had to investigate because that is just WRONG!!!

I found a length of wire had gotten in there some how. Tore the clutch plate up something good! I looked in the book and it doesn't show anything like it in the blown up part view.



in the photo you can see the wire and the damage it has done.



in the second photo you can see if you look close a small recess in the inner clutch cog. is this a keeper wire or something?? shows nothing in the parts breakdown and I've never seen anything of the sorts in a clutch assembly before. just asking for disaster to happen!

Any help here?

after looking at Mike's XS I see that there is a part of this nature. How can I get around sticking that part in my clutch?!!! That is the most retarded thing I've ever seen!

does anyone have the proper parts breakdown and assembly procedure for this type of clutch? it is a 1980.

i guess i should have done a little home work before posting. I have found some info on this clutch shit floating around the world wide web. if anyone has any info on an upgrade or how to eliminate that wire I'll be all ears.

Thanks,
Jambo

this is my view this morning leaving for work. It's come a long way since I sarted this thread. i knew nothing about these bikes at all!
Anyway I took a picture because this view was burned into my mind all day at work! design this, what if I do that, on and on........
Thanks for following along!

by the way... i'm not running those bars. just on there to push up up on the table.

welded up the tank and fender. forgot to shoot a pic of tank. i'll post some pics tomorrow. Now to make a bottom and tunnel fot the tank and plug the old gas hole and locate new filler position.

Got a two into one intake from slim for this project. Something different. Some mock up pics real quick.Got a lot of fitting and fab to do on this.







Thanks Slim!

looking sick man. i want an xs to play with but around here they are stupid expensive

Originally Posted by jambo

i guess i should have done a little home work before posting. I have found some info on this clutch shit floating around the world wide web. if anyone has any info on an upgrade or how to eliminate that wire I'll be all ears.

Thanks,
Jambo

If anyone knows, it would be our resident XS650 guru Punkskalar (Hugh of http://hughshandbuilt.blogspot.com/)

I'm going to try and work on this intake from Slim. nicely made! Dude has crazy mig skills. I'm concerned only by how far back the carb mounts now in mock up. I will have to take the time to trim a lil' to bring things in just where I want 'em. Thanks a TON Slim!

If you haven't met the guy I would make a point of it if possible. SUPER nice guy.


Here is a bike with one of slim's intakes on it. Says it runs really well with lots of snap.



this one of my other scoots. Built it last year. Out blazing across town the other night!

Originally Posted by jambo

This is making me confuse...
If your intake has 2 different lenght for each cilynder... how are they goin' to deliver the same power at the same time, when you hit the throttle...?

On here somewhere is a thread on two into one intakes. Short answer for me is it's proven to work in many different forms. Is it top horsepower/peak performance race tested technology? dunno. But what I do know is if the engine runs good and makes good power and is snappy then it will work for what I have in mind.
I think having a 40mm cv carb hanging off one side is pretty trick and something different. Has it been done? Sure it has. Still working on the actual conceptual vision of this bike at this point!

and having a riot!

hammer formed tank bottom



bottom fitted



i like this angle




bends for exhaust

did you ever finish this bike? i'd really like to see the finished product.