Blew up my 10r a few months back. Finally got a chance and the urge to take a peek. Damage was about what I prepared myself for, but much more impressive than I thought it was going to be.
Quick story:
Heading home from VT, bike starts running on 3 cylinders just outside of Albany. Few miles later I hear what sounded like marbles in the valve cover and then my riding buddy pulls up next to me pointing behind me, coolant cloud, sweet. Shut it down and pull over, there’s coolant all over my rain suit and back tire. I trailered it home and ignore it for 3 months.
Fast forward to monday this week.
Monday’s Nightcap
Tuesday
Today, no pics of the motor tear down but here’s the stopping point.
I’m going to tear down the bottom end and see if it’s worth saving. It’s considerably cheaper to put a used head on it and used pistons/rods but then I’m not sure what caused it to run on 3 cylinders before it blew… bad injector, bad coil etc etc. I’m going to see what it’ll cost to rebuild this vs get a used motor. Unfortunately a used motor won’t allow me to financially put cams and a thin head gasket on it like I wanted. Decisions decisions…
I’m not 100% sure what I’m going to do. Whatever it is won’t start until march so I’ve got time to decide. Theres a 190horse all-motor 10r engine for sale for $3500 lol. Went 8.96 with an extended swingarm.
From the looks of the carnage , without looking at it better, at the very least you’ll have to get it bored out quite a bit. Not to mention a new head, pistons, rods, and the misc. BS.
swap that head on my bike… claim it under my warranty… new motors all around
lol…
sorry dude… i still vote, buy new/used motor… swap it… and make building this block a winter project… (turbo 10r?)
I wonder what caused it…
PS… … you can continue to rip on me for buying everything with a warranty… <3… this just sucks all around though… atleast you have the civic still? will THAT atleast be ready this week?
lol It doesn’t piss me off, its a freak thing, how many sportbike motors have you heard blowing up? Shit happens I guess. I know its not a Kawi problem it coulda happened to anything. Every bike Ive owned has been over 10k w/out problems. My first bike had 35k and was beat on regularly. It’ll be back next season w/ lots more hp. Maybe Ill return it to stock and buy a vette lol.
Itd be cool to have a reliable 200 whp bike, but in reality… i think a 160 hp bike with -1,+3 would give me plenty of acceleration and smiles… regardless… I like the idea of a vette and I like the idea of this thing being rideable again. As for that r6… When we did the spark plug change, that thing ran like a raped ape. I loved riding that… your 600rr was a great bike too… so much fun. Hell the zx-10r was great toooooo…
Awwww i love motorcycles… too bad i hated my only suzuki.
Fix this thing… run 9’s on it… turbo the old motor, stretch the swingarm… run 8’s… move to florida… be awesome.
*searching for video of 636 that took about an hour with throttle wide open to finally blow up. Then let cool down for a day and it started right up. (even the exhaust melted lol)
the bike will not be sold for an amount anyone would be interested in. id sell the motor, but not the entire bike. if you’ve got an unlimited bank roll the bike would be $6500 as is lol
lol