Its just mopeds! Some time you gotta get crafty!

I needed to get the clutch out. 🙁 Bummer town. That thing was hella stuck. So i took one of the clutch shoes and drilled some holes in it, drilled and tapped some holes into the clutch plate, and then pulled it like a puch. Cause thats what I know SUCKA!

Huzza got that bell off! Now I can lighten it and ream it for a needle bearing. 

 I didnt have that fancy dealer tool to split the case so I had to tap it with a rubber mallet. I got it apart and will rebuilt it soon. 

Oh and I got new grips for MASTER BLASTER!

Them’s wood grain Bell grips from Wally World!

This simonini circuit pipe can be a nice little blasty pipe but it takes a little bit of work. In the header of the pipe you’ll find a little restrictor that can easily be dremeled out. Once that’s out the pipe will be pretty usable, strong low and mid range.

That said there’s still some restriction in the pipe. I’m used to seeing silencers formed off the stinger by a perforated tube surrounded by fiberglass. This one uses a different design. It’s just two 2 short offset pipes. The stinger has an internal diameter of roughly 13mm and the pipes in the silencer are one 9mm. As the bike get’s into the higher rpms it’s unable to bleed off the exaust the bike is generating and you hit a wall.

I kept the design of the silencer the same on mine and I replaced the small 9mm pipe with some bigger ones that were closer to 17mm. I figured they still serve their purpose of quieting things down, but would no longer serve as a limiting factor.

Well that did the trick, it’s only slightly louder I still have decent low-end and the bike doesn’t hit a wall when accelerating anymore.

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The FA50 has lights and is ready to party! Here is a walk around video!

Be sure to check out the custom gold Polini pipe, hand made from Swaziland.
P.S. I have matching shoes 🙂

Well I think I’ve got my problems figured out with the Peugeot 50cc Racey Kit. On a whim I thought I’d throw a different pipe on and see how it’d perform. I had a spare RGD pipe that I was planning on using on a liquid cooled project I was saving for this winter.

With the new pipe on the kit really opened up. Low end kind of disappeared, but from mid to high the kit rips. I was doing mid 40s without much difficulty.

A clutch pulley would fix the low end problem, but I’m going to see if adding another star spring would help out.

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This is my casserole for the second annual Casserollers casserole cook off!