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Re: The Rise of the Underdog.. Unicorn Dazzler (Banshee !! The Wailing Spirit)
So the next day I went for some Speed Runs, It was awesome...
The response was just super sexy.. literally in a different league.
But the starting issue, was too prominent... Now the thing is, The Stock Carb, had a TPS (Throttle Position Sensor). Joel, had asked to keep the TPS locked at max. My mech, didnt wanna do that. He said, keeping an Advanced timing, all the time.. that won't be much fun. He said, that Give me sometime. I will consult and think over it.
But, I was back at his garage the next day itself. The carb was awesome, but the starting prob had to be resolved. It was just not gonna work that way. (My battery would drain within a week, if that continued :P )
We started looking for options.
1) RE350 Carb : Didnt work
2) Somehow sourced a Piaggio carb: Didnt work
3) Old Eliminator's Semi Flat Carb: Didnt work
4) Rx135 Carb: :P Oh well.. had to temporarily use it for 2 days.. as the bike didnt have any starting troubles with it.
Now the entire concentration shifted to getting a proper carb.
Juned Bhai, called in 2 of his other Friends (Other Garage Owners, and also a Hardik bhai
aka Mastermind Automobile Engineer)..
1st they tried to sort the issue with the 2stroke carb.. the main prob was the pilot jet. It was not sending in enough fuel for the engine to startup at one crank. It was too small. Sadly, there was no way of getting jets for that Carb. We tried other similar pilot jets, but they just didnt work in synchro with that carb.
We had to drop the Idea of using that carb.
Now the Carb issue had become so stretched that, we were pulling off late nighters.. (till 1:30 - 2:00 am) at his garage. Infact, a complaint was registered against my Mechanic, for "Disturbance" late at night.. by a near by resident. (which was later on resolved with ease).
Now, here's the part, where I praise my Mechanic.
Just for this Carb tuning, Juned bhai & his associates /friends.. had spent nearly 68 hours by now. (Yes I was just keeping a tab). He used to start work around 7-8 pm.. pulling till 00:00 am at the least. and this continued for days together. The reason I praise Juned bhai so much is, coz he has a willingness to work, to learn & to get things done. He does work for the money.. but not in the cases where he has a chance to learn, where he has a relation. My bike, has been in his able hands, since 3rd Free Service ( ya i didnt even go to Honda Svc, for the free service :P ).. Every single thing was worked by him. Everytime... When my K&N was damaged, me & my frnd had pushed the bike till his garage (approx 9 kms).. But that is the smallest distance, as compared to what I will say in a later post.
So, 68 hours it was already. Finally we sourced a new RE500 carb.. VM28 , and that was plonked in. Yes, the bike seemed to start up well. And respond well. But it was still not getting enough fuel. Jetting was needed.
It was again hard to find jets. My city Ahmedabad, is a hell hole for modification.. nothing is available that easy. But as I said, when I had Juned bhai.. I had nothing to worry. he took the stock jets of the RE500 carb.. and went out to the market.. as he couldnt find it, he went to the 4 wheeler spares shop.. There he found jets, with similar treads Smaller in size though, but they could be resized. so he got a bunch of them.
A well deserved Break in between...
He didnt have Automated drills for the main jets.. but he did have manual drill (ya with his own hands)..
Step by step, he kept on increasing the Jet size. When one jet size seemed working fine, that was kept aside another one was taken & the size was increased further. They were swapped alternately, just so that we always had 1 main jet, that would work fine.
The swapping of jets, and setting of the float pin on this RE carb.. 7 times..
This carb was removed & again attached 7 times. to get the perfect setting.
In total.. just for carb tuning, Juned bhai had removed the carb for a total of 23 times, and I aint counting the no. of time he opened the top of the carb, while it was fitted, just to change the float pin level.
A total of whoooping 87 hours was spent on Carb Tuning.
that was no joke.
Still, 1 major hassle remained. "TPS"... leave no doubts, Juned bhai.. wouldnt leave it just like that. He asked me to come 2moro in the evening only. The reason is, for the past 11 days, since the exhaust and parts were installed. I was myself spending the entire day at the garage, from morning 11:00 till the garage closed. I helped as much as I could. But I never let Juned bhai feel that, he was just working on a random bike. Many ppl come to him for modding their bikes. But they just visit him once a day.. I never let him feel that. Between me & him, it has always been like.. Me , learning from an elder brother(him).
Next day, I arrived in the afternoon.. Juned bhai sourced the throttle cable of old Cbz.. apparently, the older cbz had dual cables. We had to remove the Quick Throttle temporarily.. as it would require further modification to the cable. Anyway, i was fine with it..
So, got it removed.. now began the brain storming process, of how & where would he put the TPS .. and more importantly, he had to make it work in complete synchronization to the Carb. The Float should open full & the tps should be at max, when the throttle was full. Did he achieve it??? Yes he did.
I don't have the pic of the current TPS setup.. but he made 3 prototypes of it..
this is the first one..
I will try and take a pic of the current TPS soon, and show you. Till then, here's a pic:
Thats the way he had set it up. He had managed to use the Throttle body of another carb, fit it on to the tps, and now both were working Together.
here is a video:
Yes, indeed.. I and even Xeno were all in appraisal of him. He is not literate. He was a Foreman @ Yamaha quite a while back. Then left it, worked at another garage & then started his own. (that has also been 10-12 years). If only ppl like him had the opportunity to study, they would have been able to do a lot..
Plus, no one will believe it but.. for everything that I have mentioned till now.i.e After getting the Parts from Indonesia.
The total amount that he took from me, including The new Carb cost, spares, Jets, Labor etc etc was ₹ 6200... Out of which 3500 was the cost of the carb itself. and Spare surely costed around 1000 or so. For all the hours of hardwork he had put in, he charged just around 1500.
I really can't express, how much hard work he had put in, If you.. after reading all of the above, still feel that I was charged properly / more. It was far far less than the effort put in.
It has always been such in his case.. whenever I tell him, why so less.. his simplest answer "Tumse Zyada lunga, toh upar wale Khuda ko kya jawab dunga?"
Hats off to him.. Mr Juned Shaikh.. (Oh btw, this year.. Raid-De-Himalaya.. the Impulse that came 2nd, was tuned by him.. ) here's a pic:
The guy in the stripped Shirt is Mr. Juned Shaikh, Besides him, Mr. Rajesh (2nd Position @ Raid-de-Himalaya), and finally Mr. Moin Shaikh (Juned's brother)
So the next day I went for some Speed Runs, It was awesome...
The response was just super sexy.. literally in a different league.
But the starting issue, was too prominent... Now the thing is, The Stock Carb, had a TPS (Throttle Position Sensor). Joel, had asked to keep the TPS locked at max. My mech, didnt wanna do that. He said, keeping an Advanced timing, all the time.. that won't be much fun. He said, that Give me sometime. I will consult and think over it.
But, I was back at his garage the next day itself. The carb was awesome, but the starting prob had to be resolved. It was just not gonna work that way. (My battery would drain within a week, if that continued :P )
We started looking for options.
1) RE350 Carb : Didnt work
2) Somehow sourced a Piaggio carb: Didnt work
3) Old Eliminator's Semi Flat Carb: Didnt work
4) Rx135 Carb: :P Oh well.. had to temporarily use it for 2 days.. as the bike didnt have any starting troubles with it.
Now the entire concentration shifted to getting a proper carb.
Juned Bhai, called in 2 of his other Friends (Other Garage Owners, and also a Hardik bhai
aka Mastermind Automobile Engineer).. 1st they tried to sort the issue with the 2stroke carb.. the main prob was the pilot jet. It was not sending in enough fuel for the engine to startup at one crank. It was too small. Sadly, there was no way of getting jets for that Carb. We tried other similar pilot jets, but they just didnt work in synchro with that carb.
We had to drop the Idea of using that carb.
Now the Carb issue had become so stretched that, we were pulling off late nighters.. (till 1:30 - 2:00 am) at his garage. Infact, a complaint was registered against my Mechanic, for "Disturbance" late at night.. by a near by resident. (which was later on resolved with ease).
Now, here's the part, where I praise my Mechanic.
Just for this Carb tuning, Juned bhai & his associates /friends.. had spent nearly 68 hours by now. (Yes I was just keeping a tab). He used to start work around 7-8 pm.. pulling till 00:00 am at the least. and this continued for days together. The reason I praise Juned bhai so much is, coz he has a willingness to work, to learn & to get things done. He does work for the money.. but not in the cases where he has a chance to learn, where he has a relation. My bike, has been in his able hands, since 3rd Free Service ( ya i didnt even go to Honda Svc, for the free service :P ).. Every single thing was worked by him. Everytime... When my K&N was damaged, me & my frnd had pushed the bike till his garage (approx 9 kms).. But that is the smallest distance, as compared to what I will say in a later post.
So, 68 hours it was already. Finally we sourced a new RE500 carb.. VM28 , and that was plonked in. Yes, the bike seemed to start up well. And respond well. But it was still not getting enough fuel. Jetting was needed.
It was again hard to find jets. My city Ahmedabad, is a hell hole for modification.. nothing is available that easy. But as I said, when I had Juned bhai.. I had nothing to worry. he took the stock jets of the RE500 carb.. and went out to the market.. as he couldnt find it, he went to the 4 wheeler spares shop.. There he found jets, with similar treads Smaller in size though, but they could be resized. so he got a bunch of them.
A well deserved Break in between...
He didnt have Automated drills for the main jets.. but he did have manual drill (ya with his own hands)..
Step by step, he kept on increasing the Jet size. When one jet size seemed working fine, that was kept aside another one was taken & the size was increased further. They were swapped alternately, just so that we always had 1 main jet, that would work fine.
The swapping of jets, and setting of the float pin on this RE carb.. 7 times..
This carb was removed & again attached 7 times. to get the perfect setting.
In total.. just for carb tuning, Juned bhai had removed the carb for a total of 23 times, and I aint counting the no. of time he opened the top of the carb, while it was fitted, just to change the float pin level.
A total of whoooping 87 hours was spent on Carb Tuning.
that was no joke.
Still, 1 major hassle remained. "TPS"... leave no doubts, Juned bhai.. wouldnt leave it just like that. He asked me to come 2moro in the evening only. The reason is, for the past 11 days, since the exhaust and parts were installed. I was myself spending the entire day at the garage, from morning 11:00 till the garage closed. I helped as much as I could. But I never let Juned bhai feel that, he was just working on a random bike. Many ppl come to him for modding their bikes. But they just visit him once a day.. I never let him feel that. Between me & him, it has always been like.. Me , learning from an elder brother(him).
Next day, I arrived in the afternoon.. Juned bhai sourced the throttle cable of old Cbz.. apparently, the older cbz had dual cables. We had to remove the Quick Throttle temporarily.. as it would require further modification to the cable. Anyway, i was fine with it..
So, got it removed.. now began the brain storming process, of how & where would he put the TPS .. and more importantly, he had to make it work in complete synchronization to the Carb. The Float should open full & the tps should be at max, when the throttle was full. Did he achieve it??? Yes he did.
I don't have the pic of the current TPS setup.. but he made 3 prototypes of it..
this is the first one..
I will try and take a pic of the current TPS soon, and show you. Till then, here's a pic:
Thats the way he had set it up. He had managed to use the Throttle body of another carb, fit it on to the tps, and now both were working Together.
here is a video:
Yes, indeed.. I and even Xeno were all in appraisal of him. He is not literate. He was a Foreman @ Yamaha quite a while back. Then left it, worked at another garage & then started his own. (that has also been 10-12 years). If only ppl like him had the opportunity to study, they would have been able to do a lot..
Plus, no one will believe it but.. for everything that I have mentioned till now.i.e After getting the Parts from Indonesia.
The total amount that he took from me, including The new Carb cost, spares, Jets, Labor etc etc was ₹ 6200... Out of which 3500 was the cost of the carb itself. and Spare surely costed around 1000 or so. For all the hours of hardwork he had put in, he charged just around 1500.
I really can't express, how much hard work he had put in, If you.. after reading all of the above, still feel that I was charged properly / more. It was far far less than the effort put in.
It has always been such in his case.. whenever I tell him, why so less.. his simplest answer "Tumse Zyada lunga, toh upar wale Khuda ko kya jawab dunga?"
Hats off to him.. Mr Juned Shaikh.. (Oh btw, this year.. Raid-De-Himalaya.. the Impulse that came 2nd, was tuned by him..
) here's a pic:The guy in the stripped Shirt is Mr. Juned Shaikh, Besides him, Mr. Rajesh (2nd Position @ Raid-de-Himalaya), and finally Mr. Moin Shaikh (Juned's brother)
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