justmartyn wrote:since last Saturday's trackday has dispelled any dillusions of me ever racing. Christ it was humbling!!

Let me just hijack Monkey's thread in a manner befitting a guy who hasn't even got a 400!

There is only one way to get to be fast (even as fast as the back 1/3rd of the F400 pack which in my experience is about the front 20% of inters, middle of fast at a typical TD) is to try bloody hard, on track, and ideally with faster people on similar bikes (i.e. race).

You shouldn't let anything you regard as poor early form put you off, no one except the occasional crazy teenager does anything except run at the back in their first few races at least and that's generally after they've spent a couple of years working their way up from novice to inters and probably to fast trackdaying.

davidsimon10 wrote:well lets see good deal or not?
takeing the engine to bits replacing the pistons with high compretion pistons
and new rings ,checking all the bearings ,reseating all the valves fitting the modified internal drive gears which allow you to skim the head .skimming the head .2 mm doing all the valve shims and getting it back to you for 650 pounds !!! youve defonately been ripped off!!! :D

Its done and road tested and goes like stink....just one more minor mod to do once I receive said bits in the post..



wooooo hoooo roll on the 11th