85 Spree, test bed for mods

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dgsoles wrote:Not to be a nit-picker, but AOL Hometown was shut down Oct. 31. All of your images are gone.....I was especially interested in seeing your intake porting mod.
Photobucket that s***.
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Kenny_McCormic wrote:
dgsoles wrote:Not to be a nit-picker, but AOL Hometown was shut down Oct. 31. All of your images are gone.....I was especially interested in seeing your intake porting mod.
Photobucket that s***.
or imageshack, or flickr or s***.
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SpyderMike wrote:
RockyMtnRoadRash wrote:
keithw wrote:My Pal has a variable front pulley. I was emailing a guy in New Zealand and he said that his does not. The Pal variable pulley will not fit the Spree unless you swap the crankshaft also.

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Does this mean I might be able to get a variable pulley into my Elite E?
im counting on it :twisted:
Sorry to disappoint you guys, but the Elite E crank is different from the Pal, so no CVT without a Pal crank!

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Sorry about the pictures. I have rehosted them on my new domain. I'll edit the links if I can or repost the new links. I'm working on getting my website that I had hosted on AOL moved and sorted. If anyone is interested in what I do part of the time I'm not playing with scooters. http://datsunroadsterranch.com

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edited the links, pictures work now.

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Any progress? Take the * advantage of no winter!
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Sorry, been busy. The weather has been reasonable so I will get back to this soon.

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K, just makin sure.
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The last month has been crazy. Like four trips out of town in five weeks. Things are settling back down so I'll get back to it. It is running quite nicely going back and forth to class a couple of times a week.

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where are the rest of the test
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A couple of issues. The weather has been a little rough, kind of cool, rain and snow etc. The second is that I'm in the middle of a bit of a relapse of my CFS (chronic fatigue syndrome). I've been getting just about nothing done on anything.

The weather is expected to get a little better and hopefully I will start to feel a bit better also. As soon as I am able I will get back to the scooters and a few other things that are on hold, like pretty much my entire life.

If you think it's frustrating for you try being on this end.

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Kenny_McCormic wrote:Any progress? Take the * advantage of no winter!
I would like to know why peple think Las Vegas has no winter. It is high desert and gets d*** cold at night, even in the summer, like 50° to 60° temperature spreads between daytime highs and night time lows. When I lived there eons ago we had snow every winter.
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I didn't know it was high desert.
http://countrystudies.us/united-states/ ... -vegas.htm
Tells me the snow never sticks, and there isnt much of it.
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It doesn't snow much and doesn't stay on the ground for long. I did have snow on the ground for almost a month one time several years ago. We are at the altitude where if you go a few hundred feet higher you get quite a bit of snow and a few hundred feet lower hardly any. In any case it's been bloody miserable outside the last couple of weeks. It is supposed to be warming back up to our normal winter temps shortly. The temps are expected to be in the low 60's by Friday, about 20 degrees warmer than it's been. Hopefully I'll be feeling better and can take advantage of it.

Remember, climate is what you read in the tourist flier and weather is what you get when you arrive.

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Post by SprEE*MP* »

Hey keithw, what other mods do you have planned for the Spree?
-1984 Spree,
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Post by Kenny_McCormic »

40 isnt bad at all by my standards, considering its 20 here.
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