Preview of the new paint for the Turbo Warrior!

I was finally able to get the tins on the Turbo Warrior painted. Since the Warrior is classified as a muscle cruiser I wanted to go for a classic muscle car, hot rod type of scheme. I also didn’t want to take away from the Earl fitting accents of blue and red, the painted calipers, or the dyna coils. I thought that too much color would detract from all of that. “Subtle bling” as I like to call it.  More pics and videos to come after I get them back on the bike.

\m/

Love the way the fish scales came out. Gonna look awesome in the sun!

Love the metal flake. Gonna look awesome in the sun!

Love the metal flake. Pretty sure they’ll see me coming! Gonna look awesome in the sun!

Video of the new paint!  
https://youtu.be/BdAI4HRjI1I  

Initial Run

I got her running a few months ago.  The tune was about 90%.  She was running rich for awhile.  Here’s a short video.

I finally got her tuned on a Dyno by a professional.  I’ll try to post a video of her running now that she’s all tunes up.  It made a huge Difference!

\M/

Exhaust Fab part 3

I finally got the exhaust and headers back from being chromed and ceramic coated.  I really like the look.  Hopefully the ceramic coating and header wrap will reduce the amount of radiant heat to my leg.

Got the exhaust pipe back from being chromed and ceramic coated.

Wrapped the header pipes.

Exhaust and headers back from getting ceramic coating.

I had the seat and rear pillion recovered. I got the heat shields back from being chromed as well.

Got the exhaust pipe back from being chromed and ceramic coated.

Exhaust Fab

It goes without saying that if I am fabricating the headers, etc then I’ll need to make the exhaust piping as well.  This was the easiest part so far!  I like the way it’s turned out.  I started out with the V-band exhaust flange and had my friend weld it to the turbine exhaust flange that I found online that would work for an external wastegate.  It basically blocked off the internal wastegate port.  I still had it welded shut regardless.  I put the wastegate on the rear header pipe.  The wastegate blow off pipe will tap right into the exhaust. In a perfect world I would have the waste pipe coming right off of the split where the two headers meet.  This should work though.

Having to cut off the ends of the bolts to get everything to fit.

Starting to fab up the exhaust. Little bit at a time.

 

Just got the pipes positioned for a quick mock up. Now to take them and have them welded!

 

The Turbo Warrior Build

I’ve wanted to put a turbo on my Warrior when I saw others had done it with fabbed kits and purchased kits.  To purchase a kit would cost me around $5000.  Waaay too much for me to justify buying one.  So, I decided to eventually make my own set up.  Learning about what all was involved in this project has been quite a process.  I read two books, Maximum Boost by Corky Bell and Motorcycle Turbocharging, Supercharging & Nitrous Oxide by Joe Halle.  I’m also a supporting member of the http://www.rswarrior.com Road Star Warrior forum.  All of which have been invaluable to my learning.