I decided to upgrade my manifold and carb to a Race Polini 16mm. SOunds imressive eh women ;) I bet you love it when a man comes up to you and says he has a 16mm manifold.
Anyways. Due to this new purchase a few problems occured. Firstly, because they were both new parts there was no way I could fit the manifold to the carb without hammering it in place. Obviously this meant I had to do it outside of the bike.
Also, because of this and the way that the manifold was modelled I would have to do a bit of re jigging. which basically meant taking apart the manifold. Not the usual done thing. See below:
As you can see the carb is attached to one half of the manifold (on the left) and the other half of the manifold on the right. The reason I had to take them apart was because of this. As you can see the middle of the manifold is square in shape and I had to fit it through this:
It is literally fitting a square into a round hole, ha ha ha
Hence I had to take it apart.
So I had one half attache to the carb and the other half of the manifold attached to the engine, See below:
So it was then just a simple (well not so simple as I dont have fingers the size of tooth picks) case of lifting the engine up and screwing the two parts of the manifold together, voila
Done, well not quite as I totally forgot to put the cylinder cover on so I had to unscrew the manifold again, lower the engine, put on the cylinder cover, cut a bit off it as the new manifold is a different shape to the old one, lift the engine up again, attach the manifold again and then do it all over once again as I found a loose screw on the cylinder and was paranoid that I had forgotten to tighten the others, which I had not forgotten.
My god,
Next... attach cables to gears and fit kickstarter.
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