LE stickers on a race car.

Installing an engine is like framing a house, it looks like a lot of progress in a short time. Then it takes a lot of work to to connect all the wires and hoses. Time to fit the new big radiator.

Rich Oliver’s Mystery School has a fleet of 40 Yamaha TTR’s for you and your friends to ride. Lindemann Engineering has been one of the sponsors since it’s beginning. That’s a lot of fork and shock work. Here’s another rebuilt and re-valved shock about to go back together. Rich has been doing his Mystery School thing for some time now. One of the behind the scenes tricks is to have extra forks and shocks ready to go so a leaking seal does not leave him short of rides. This lets me do my work in batches.

The race engine is back in the Blue car.

How did you get it so cheep? There has to be a reason someone sold it cheep, right? This one has a lot of problems, one of them is a lot of cam chain noise that someone tried to fix with an extra spring…

The Race Engine is finally here. It’s a long block and they painted it after putting it together. While swapping parts from the engine that dropped an exhaust valve to the new engine, I’m doing a little porting so everything fits together just so. The broken engine will be rebuilt and upgraded by me.

The bike has been delivered to a Villa at The Thermal Club. Still waiting a some parts but this is a good time to make sure everything works together.

Body work is always labor intensive. Dzus fasteners can be fussy to install. There is always some dusty trimming to be done so the fiberglass does not touch in places it should not. In the end the hassle is always worth it.

A real Kit Harness would come from the factory without any street wiring. But they cost as much as gold so I make my own by removing the street stuff and adding connectors for race stuff like the transponder and timer. This is the stock harness after I removed the street stuff. The blue tags tell me what the plug goes to.