Vintage Class: vwfan79's Ruttman Spyder
Thanks for all the support guys, the frustration was causing bad thinking but I've come to my senses. I ordered new rings, diaphragm and aluminum valve cover, along with some brakes for another bike. Gonna hone the cylinder file fit rings (which I should have done in the first place), try different tank and new diaphragm, new valve cover with breather line to a filter and just check through everything else to make sure she is good to go. Got a month should be plenty of time.
Still waiting on my OldMiniBikes order to show but I have a slight change of plans, I am also building a drag bike and with the head work I'm having done and the new cam I'm going with I need to use a bigger carb so that means I have an extra 22mm Mikuni. So the new plan is to use the Mikuni on the briggs so I now I need to find a tank and get it mounted the frame. Also going to put a heavier spring in the clutch for a higher stall to help with the low end.
Spent most of the day out in the shop working on the briggs, decided to use a different block due to over porting on the exhaust side. So I honed the new block, cleaned up the rough edges of the ports, it already had the eyebrows shaved, sand blasted, cleaned and painted the block. I got everything put back together and mounted on the bike, tomorrow I'm going to pickup my intake and carb and get that mounted and tuned. We are then going to the track to test it out and see how she runs now. I'll try to get a video at the track.
