s14 2510s, on 30 January 2012 - 08:44 AM, said:
I had a second 295 cylinder built this year for ice racing. My first was broad 110 olney, I put a ton of hours on it no problem. My new jug was a 295 110 olney mid high with a ported piston. I just wanted more of a top end screamer for the ice/dunes this year. I had the bike out 2 times and it was nothing but problems. Pv shaft has tons of slop and wont hold a seal because of it. The spring mounts by the exhaust flange were about wore through in 2 spots and about to break off. 2 striped out bolt holes. Head flange was wore and I would of had to use silicone to seal the pipe. The best was after 2-4 hours the cylinder cracked at both exhaust bridges and ate the piston to hell. I noticed this when you would start the bike it was pressurizing the coolant system and when you would rev the bike cooolant would puke out the overflow tube. Bike still had compression and ran but ive never been able to lean the bike out like I should of. Burning coolant = lean conditons.
Anyways I ripped the jug off today after not beeing able to ride yestrerday and im sending it off to Gorr. My ice riding season is short so this is a major downer. I have a spare yz250 but its stock bore and low mid ported for the woods so ill be going slow till I get my race bike back together. Im shure gorr will make this right ive delt with him for years.
I started this post to cuss out you who have sent in clapped out core cylinders to gorr and not informed him of the problems they had. I ended up with somebody clapped out core they sent in and its a killer. I know for a fact I sent him a cylinder that was mint and had less then 2 hours on it from new that a friend sold me.
Ive delt with gorr for years he always makes things right.
The killer of it all is he tells me Sunday when he answered the phone. Yes he picks up on Sunday. He wont have head gaskets for 2 weeks and I gave my last new one to my buddy when I sold him my other 295 jug. So my race bike is down for 2 + weeks ouch.
Anyways I ripped the jug off today after not beeing able to ride yestrerday and im sending it off to Gorr. My ice riding season is short so this is a major downer. I have a spare yz250 but its stock bore and low mid ported for the woods so ill be going slow till I get my race bike back together. Im shure gorr will make this right ive delt with him for years.
I started this post to cuss out you who have sent in clapped out core cylinders to gorr and not informed him of the problems they had. I ended up with somebody clapped out core they sent in and its a killer. I know for a fact I sent him a cylinder that was mint and had less then 2 hours on it from new that a friend sold me.
Ive delt with gorr for years he always makes things right.
The killer of it all is he tells me Sunday when he answered the phone. Yes he picks up on Sunday. He wont have head gaskets for 2 weeks and I gave my last new one to my buddy when I sold him my other 295 jug. So my race bike is down for 2 + weeks ouch.
He explained why there is a backorder in head gaskets. Gorr is in the process of redesigning his head gaskets so they can not be put on upside down or backwards. Hes adding more rubber coating to them so they seal better.
This is why people are experiacing delays or shortages in parts coming from eric.
This is why I olney trust gorr to do work for me. Always improving his product and I dont think anybody would of had the turn around time that he did getting me new parts to get my race bike back running again. He recieved my crap 295 jug wendsday in the mail and a new 295 jug, piston, gaskets, and 2 new heads are getting shipped out to me Friday. Top notch service. He said 295 kits are beeing made for hondas verry soon. Now that hes lining the cylinders with an iron sleeve for the 295's just about any 2 stroke can be bored out to a 295 and be reliable.
He also said hes been dyno testing 295 kits and the dep pipe was the best performer for his 295 so far. He said 295 are made to work best with a stock pipe. He said a 300 pipe wouldnt have to be made unless you had a stroker crank thats were the pipe timing would be thrown off. Hes sending me a head gasket also out of his reserve stash also so I can get back to racing the bike. He said the new head gaskets will be in in a week most likely..
This is why eric is above all after he makes enoufgh and revises his kits 295 kits will be as reliable if not more then a stock bore.
to eric hes always raising the bar.....
