The X1 dream bike!

Finally got a nice day so I took some good X1 pic's

And this is what I mean when I tell people to open the transmission and clean out all of the disgusting paraffin based grease before switching to ATF or motor oil with your choice of additives in the mix.


Because I'm going to be swapping this engine with another engine that is already ported and polished I'm going to go ahead and pull this engine and transmission out at this time...

One thing I love about these bikes is in less then 15 minutes it's out !!!

I'm going to go ahead and grab my donor engine off of this thing I know it doesn't look the best on the outside but don't worry it's what's on the inside that counts...

Moving right along turns out the engine I wanted to swap with isn't moded well I can't have that here are some tear down pic's

They left some gifts behind the bearings for me

I'll be replacing them and the seals

My parts finally showed up everything looks nice and new.

Seeing that all my parts came in in a timely manner and everything is going to work and fit I have started modding the first thing I've done is the starter delete mod basically all you do is take the starter off and cut on both sides of the starter motor to remove the inner shaft then remove the brushes you can remove the magnets if you want to it's easy to break them out with a hammer and screwdriver and then use pliers to take the screws out or just leave them in.

I won't be needing any of this stuff anymore 😃

It really was time this one was getting ready to start dieing

Stoped by my local bearing shop and picked up some bearings on my way to work.

I laped the mating surfaces and went ahead and ported out the crankcase

I started assembling it I installed the bearings buy putting the crank case halves in the oven at 450 for 15 minutes and the bearings in the freezer and they just dropped right in 😃

I replaced the pull starter as well.

Well I got the cylinder on but my intake manifold is wrong so I had to order a new one sucks becus the velocity stack is the only bling I have and I can't even put it on but it's ok my manifold will be here in less then 7 days 🤞

I got my intake and made some gaskets for it the Chinese gaskets that come with these parts tend to melt when mixed with gasoline that's my biggest issue with them the second issue is the gaskets are always smaller than the openings blocking some of the flow so when I make my gas gets I make sure that it does not block the opening in any way. It sure is nice when you can see the project coming together I finally got to put my velocity stack and air filter on.