Lambretta café racer
1960 Li 150, the theme - 60's cafe racer but it had to be black and fast, hense the ghost flames.
Motor: 200 cylinder with a genuine DT175MX piston and a DJ reedblock running a 30mm powerjet Amal. The cylinder has been shortened by 1mm from the top gasket face which raises the transfer timing slightly. The transfers have been flowed through the entire length and widened at cylinder entry without opening up the Italian SX 200 cases and a boost port added at the rear of the cylinder. Exhaust and inlet have been widened and raised / lowered and is probably what in the old days would have been called a stage 5. The cylinder head is a sand cast Spanish type which Malc Anderson from MSC machined for me once. I don't recall offhand the port timings but it is deliberately conservative (for me!).
Ignition is an AF kit which has itself been lightened. The crank is an Indian GP crank with a genuine RD400 rod. It runs through an Italian LI150 gearbox with a 16 tooth sprocket.
Specialised parts, Italian SX200 engine, Drops, Hydraulic outbound front disk, Stainless rims, rear being wide with low profile tyre. R1 rear shock with 225lb spring, stainless floor strips.
Sprinter motor: Wiseco Suzuki TS250 piston, piston ported, motoplat internal rotor ignition with weight welded to it, advance control unit for timing. Port timings are 189 exhaust, 130 tsfs, 176 inlet. 36mm amal smoothbore, custom pipe. Li 150 gearbox with 17/46 sprockets. and standard 4 plate clutch. Its oldschool and it's fast and we would welcome a race challenge...
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