1/2 a Polaris

[will350]

This wound up on but and sell ( again) Don't ask , I don't know .
But it's here now .



I finally found a rod for this and got my crank together and trued .
It's in the cases and everythings appears to be as it should .
( seal spacing etc. ) I'm going to try something different for me .
Go buy a camera and take a picture "series" of this instead of the the
usual " look what I got " after it's all done . Be patient . Since I can't afford a digital , I'll have to do this the "old fashioned" way . This is going
to work out fairly well and should be reasonably interesting . Not
set on which foot to run , one of my 302s with the nose cone pick-up
or my OMC A foot . Any opinions ? There'll be a new tower and
clamp set up ( of course ! )
In the meanwhile , here's a little some thing to look at .
R-14 Will
P.S. David , It's 1/2 of a 250 .

[Dr. Thunder]

Will: Do you think this would hook up to one of Lee Tietzes' billet tower/bracket assemblies?

[will350]

Originally posted by Dr. Thunder
Will: Do you think this would hook up to one of Lee Tietzes' billet tower/bracket assemblies?


I think you could make it fit easy enough without a whole lot of
trouble . I took it down to the guy that's done port work for me
and we started looking at some of the 125 cylinders he has with idea of
using one of those . It's plenty doable but after he took a look at the one I have ................................ I got a 45 minute seminar on porting and flow theory . He thinks it will work good . This is from a guy who did Honda's
port R&D for a while in the 80s so I'm real optimistic about this .
I'm going to run the ET ignition to start ( I have a CDI that will fit ) and the lower end should be just fine ( 340 L/C crank halves , rod and main
bearings ) R-14 Will

[pro350hydro]

Thunder,

Lee's towers are very universal, in the fact that almost all the towers use the same "tower" if you will. The way he builds the steering bar, is that if lays on top of the tower under the powerhead, and it doubles as an "adapter plate" for different powerheads. So all he would need is the bolt pattern of the powerhead, driveshaft location, etc.

Then if you purchased a different powerhead with a different bolt pattern, all you would need is a different steering bar/adapter plate to accomondate the bolt pattern.

Hope this helps

Mike

[David Weaver]

Will this be air or water cooled?

I remember racing against 125 Suzuki's that were air cooled in the late 70's/early80's. They ran good for a lap and then slowed dramatically until they cooled then took off again.

Good luck with this project.