16-05-19, 05:27 PM
Speed Triples back together, but as usual for me, not without drama. The exhaust guy replaced two of the three flanges as they were well past their sell by date. However on attempting to fit the manifold the new flanges were 2mm thicker than the originals, meaning insufficient stud thread poked through, preventing the nuts from threading up. The choice now was sourcing longer studs, taking them back to the exhaust guy, or attacking the flanges with an angle grinder. I plumbed for the latter and after an hour and a half, painstakingly got the stud hole areas ground down a few mm. The rest went sweet as a nut, just got to wait till June to retax it.
Whizz kid sitting pretty on his two wheeled stallion.