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--- Quote from: banjaxxed on October 25, 2015, 04:28:49 AM ---The GenII magnesium motor has some benefits but the stator is a huge problem for a start, even aftermarket does not help with the eventual burnout of the windings.
And yes well that wasn't your thread originally but great derailment interest was piqued :)
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You trying to cheer me up...... :)
Actually its a bit of a mute point, because in doing the conversion to earlier electronics one of the things that get replaced is the stator, this is because the pickups are in different locations on the casing, same with the front cam box, but this also requires machining of the head to get it to fit, I did this by bolting the whole motor to the milling machine, saved me removing the head and buying head gaskets, whilst the motor was fixed in the CNC mill I used my scanning probe as a CMM to scan all the important points, mountings etc. creating a point cloud of X,Y,Z, coords, this ensured when I made the billet chassis plates all these mounting lined up with some precision, its a bit time consuming but worked out very well. :ddb:
I will be running a lithium Iron battery on this bike, (saves a lot of weight) so I will upgrade the reg / rec to a MOSFET or FET style voltage rectifier instead of sticking with a shunt style rectifier, this apparently solves a lot of the charging issues these engine's suffer, well that's the plan anyhow.
Shaun
banjaxxed:
I read that which makes a lot of sense considering you were slotting it into a one-off frame, the only other rsv-engined custom frame that I'm aware of is the cafe racer one from Taimosham
http://www.bikeexif.com/aprilia-rsv-taimoshan
Could be many more I'm just not aware of like your stealth HCS job
By the by, here is a thread posted for gen2 motors for sale in the uk pre modified to slot straight into a gen1 harness/ecu/dash, you get the dependability of gen1 stator etc with the extra power of the gen2 heads (and lightness of magnesium). Of course whatever exhaust option chosen requires the 4 stud header flange. But you know all that, maybe a good place to pick up some spares going for a good price.
The mosfet upgrade is worthwhile too, hardwire it to the harness, do not use the dreaded aprilia brown connector they melt frequently.
Ps. Have a shorai, they don't like the cold much, would probably get an earthx given the choice as balance circuit is built in those
http://www.apriliaforum.com/forums/showpost.php?p=3840966
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