What did you do with your P11 today. he he

Today I cut 5/32" off my kick(side) stand and soldered the foot back on with silver solder and a propane torch. The silver solder does actually hold the foot on and survive the small amount of abuse it gets. It's not a stock P11 side stand. More of a chromed square stick. I helped some, but I may have to do it again if I decide to drop the suspension more front and rear.

I was hoping to make a video to post on Youtube of the engine idling and me blipping the throttle. Idle has a lope to it with the JS2 cam and the exhaust note blipping the throttle is a little different with the barely baffled 2 into 1 exhaust. It doesn't sound like a typical street Norton to me. Unfortunately for my one still functioning brain cell, making video with the Youtube app is not quit as intuitive as I would like it to be. I did make 2 video shorts, but I did them both in landscape mode which makes them useless for viewing because landscape video shorts get cropped and put into portrait orientation. I need to shoot standard video. I'll get around to doing it right eventually.

Forgot I'll be working a little more on my intake manifolds for the FCRs tomorrow.

Schwany said:

I'm really slow at making those because I don't have the tools to do it in high volume.

Couple of notes: If one has the tools, it would make a lot of sense to just cut one out of 3/8" aluminum sheet. 3/8" of spacer has better clearance. Other modifications may be required. For example, the footrest hardware has to be reshaped to clear the outer cover hump on a P11. The N15CS has different footrest hardware and might work without the modification.

This too: Out of the 14 socket head bolts (AN calls them screws) I have only 6 are actually long enough to hold the outer cover on relatively securely. Minimum length would be 1.25". 1.5" length would be better. The 1/4"-26 x 1.5" stainless socket head bolts are $5 per from vendors that carry them. I'm not broke or on a tight budget, but I refuse to pay $5 per for those little bolts. So I might install helicoils in the inner cover and go to an easy to find on Amazon socket head bolt in 1/4". Might cost a dollar less than $5 per by the time I get done, but I'd have bolts I could easily get and stronger threads in the inner cover.

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There is a company called SENDCUTSEND that you could contact or go on their site and get a quote. Heard of this site from swooshdave in a video and it looks like a great site to consider for small run stuff. If you have a file of this it would be really easy, or maybe a drawing. I for one would consider one, my G15 that I'm building would love a Commando clutch. https://sendcutsend.com/materials/ Their prices seem very reasonable to me.

Hortons Norton said:

There is a company called SENDCUTSEND that you could contact or go on their site and get a quote. Heard of this site from swooshdave in a video and it looks like a great site to consider for small run stuff. If you have a file of this it would be really easy, or maybe a drawing. I for one would consider one, my G15 that I'm building would love a Commando clutch. https://sendcutsend.com/materials/ Their prices seem very reasonable to me.

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Looks like a good resource.

I don't have any CAD drawings and no plans to create any. Best I could do is send them a gasket and say copy this in 3/8" aluminum or some other less expensive material.

Somebody else will have to pursue that small market opportunity.

If the stock clutch gives me trouble I may ask them about it, I know there may be other clutches that I can look at. Both my Atlas and Combat have the RGM belt drive and both work very well, and I can be a bit hard on them. The reason I asked is your work looks to be made from a machine, Nice work. Thanks.

Hortons Norton said:

If the stock clutch gives me trouble I may ask them about it, I know there may be other clutches that I can look at. Both my Atlas and Combat have the RGM belt drive and both work very well, and I can be a bit hard on them. The reason I asked is your work looks to be made from a machine, Nice work. Thanks.

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The work is not that nice, but close enough. Computer aided machine made would get the bolt holes lined up perfectly. I end up reworking several of the holes for the bolts. A few of them are a hair off and need some additional clearance.

I started my P11 today. Always a bit exciting to fire it up after letting it sit for a few weeks.

No riding though. It's 40F degrees out there and raining. I do not ride anything built in the 60's in the rain if I can help it.

I retorqued the head and adjusted the valves 3 weeks ago and didn't start it then. Figured it was about time to start it and wake up the graveyard shift.