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Keep in mind people as small business owners. Registered as LLCs, insurance or none prones risk of counteraction of lawsuit to a business, since technically the person running business doesn't own it. Therefor meaning it's a Limited Liability. It's very rare in these cases since there is millions of Registered LLC businesses out there. But It has happened before.
Zane has sent me replacement parts for a motor that took a crap after 310 miles. I'll keep you posted in the future after improving the defects his manfuctures wholesale to him. He was nice enough to throw in a Catnip CDI, which I do highly appreciate it as anybody rather use a better CDI. Just don't expect japanese upgraded bearings in this motors, nor shields on the crank bearings.
The moral of the story of his bottom ends is simple. If you're planning on saving money and using his motors. You're going to NEED to crack the bottom case open. Replace the bearings that have no shields (in the magneto and smaller clutch gear areas) and possibly do some crank trueing work. The oil seals are the cheapest of chinese quality. Personally my advice to him as a seller would be to upgrade these things to compete with other sellers like Smolik. Nor are bearings or oil seals really expensive. You just need to read the shields or match the size. I haven't fully cracked one fully yet, but certainly there may need to be some modification to the shims on the crank arms that are used to prevent play on the crank arm and vibrations. I've noticed after x2 Wildcat pro racers that went dead in action, The cranks are either stiff and hard to move or become loose after failures of oil seals compression and being blown. More thouraghally I can already tell you these cranks are only trued and drilled in two areas.
If you're hobbiest, experienced or have parts laying around to modify things by all means try to buy from Zane. The Minarelli bottom end is an exact replica of the Skyhawk bottom end and in early basis people like Don Butler have put in their extra work to modify and sell them. Yes you're paying more but at the expense of the engine actually being ran, modified to it's best specifications and tested. Only issue as always no seller can tune a carb for you and sell it due to the fact of shipping regulations on flammables. Also YOU WILL NEED TO modify the clutch to your own SAF Clutch from DLH Preformance or create your own.
Zane should also modify the Minarelli adapter to the slanted as a traditional flat adapter isn't compatiable with the Mikuni VM-20 bolted straight out of the box. You will need to make a custom manifold for whichever carb you're using.
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It's highly advised to study the art of tuning carbs properly, regardless if it's some Chinesium carb that comes normally in a kit. Regular carbs are much more technical and tunable. Whereas kit carbs for motorized bikes are less and more universal. Most of which actually from my understanding also bog down the preformance of most engines 49cc and above if their not manifold exhuast ported beyond 14mm. Ideally most people who are seeking to modify older versions of motors are using 16-17mm carbs. Minarellis are 19mm-21mm typically and beyond.
Zane has sent me replacement parts for a motor that took a crap after 310 miles. I'll keep you posted in the future after improving the defects his manfuctures wholesale to him. He was nice enough to throw in a Catnip CDI, which I do highly appreciate it as anybody rather use a better CDI. Just don't expect japanese upgraded bearings in this motors, nor shields on the crank bearings.
The moral of the story of his bottom ends is simple. If you're planning on saving money and using his motors. You're going to NEED to crack the bottom case open. Replace the bearings that have no shields (in the magneto and smaller clutch gear areas) and possibly do some crank trueing work. The oil seals are the cheapest of chinese quality. Personally my advice to him as a seller would be to upgrade these things to compete with other sellers like Smolik. Nor are bearings or oil seals really expensive. You just need to read the shields or match the size. I haven't fully cracked one fully yet, but certainly there may need to be some modification to the shims on the crank arms that are used to prevent play on the crank arm and vibrations. I've noticed after x2 Wildcat pro racers that went dead in action, The cranks are either stiff and hard to move or become loose after failures of oil seals compression and being blown. More thouraghally I can already tell you these cranks are only trued and drilled in two areas.
If you're hobbiest, experienced or have parts laying around to modify things by all means try to buy from Zane. The Minarelli bottom end is an exact replica of the Skyhawk bottom end and in early basis people like Don Butler have put in their extra work to modify and sell them. Yes you're paying more but at the expense of the engine actually being ran, modified to it's best specifications and tested. Only issue as always no seller can tune a carb for you and sell it due to the fact of shipping regulations on flammables. Also YOU WILL NEED TO modify the clutch to your own SAF Clutch from DLH Preformance or create your own.
Zane should also modify the Minarelli adapter to the slanted as a traditional flat adapter isn't compatiable with the Mikuni VM-20 bolted straight out of the box. You will need to make a custom manifold for whichever carb you're using.
#1. Don Butler Custom SkyHawk 70cc Minarelli engine
Here's the latest High Reving Engine RAGE Custom built by the Don Butler Speed Shop in Chickasha OK. First of all it's a SkyHawk YuanDong Bottom half with a Minarelli 70cc vertical top end assembled by the old Pro. Mr. Don Butler at his Chickasha Speed Shop. NOTE: We send a Gt5A-ES SkyHawk...
www.grubee.net
It's highly advised to study the art of tuning carbs properly, regardless if it's some Chinesium carb that comes normally in a kit. Regular carbs are much more technical and tunable. Whereas kit carbs for motorized bikes are less and more universal. Most of which actually from my understanding also bog down the preformance of most engines 49cc and above if their not manifold exhuast ported beyond 14mm. Ideally most people who are seeking to modify older versions of motors are using 16-17mm carbs. Minarellis are 19mm-21mm typically and beyond.
