I decided to work over time during weekdays since I did not have a chance to do anything last weekend
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First, I install the Bonamici Racing Lever for the Left RCS16 Corsa Corta Clutch Master Cylinder. Long story short, due to many "miscommunication" between Bonamici US importer and Bonamici the factory (yeah really long story and also took many months and still end up with mistake...) I had to ask for our Resident DUCATImodified forum CNC expert
@Araitim to help me custom modified the Bonamici lever and the result was amazing !!! Thanks
@Araitim
and I finally had a chance to install this custom modified Bonamici Racing lever:
Then, thanks again to
@MaverickiB , I found out about the CNC Machined Thermostat housing, which I painted anodized red and after a few weeks of waiting to make sure the paint cured, I install it this evening. As always it is not easy to install this thermostat housing, lot of struggling with the hose and clamp. I did it the first time when I change to Samco hose.
Here are BEFORE picture and AFTER picture
However, there are many steps and struggle, so first took out the whole original plastic thermostat assembly from the bike:
Notice the temperature sensor had it;s clip safety wired:
Took out the temperature sensor and install it on the CNC thermostat, oh by the way, those "Grease L" is a very rare $95 per small 5 grams tube grease, so I decided to reuse the old grease that was still stuck to the thermostat sensor, since as you can see in the picture, still plenty of grease and to be super safe,
I add Shin-Etsu grease which have very similar base material and properties except without PTFE and slightly less thick, beside the purpose of the grease is just to protect the O-ring when you slide in the thermostat:
Installed the temperature sensor and right picture is the close up look of the new safety wire that I use:
Now, there is one problem, this CNC machined thermostat have a much longer bottom part compare to the stock plastic, if you notice on the picture below, the stock plastic bottom part (where my finger pointed is flat, while the CNC billet thermostat is longer:
And because of that, the CNC billet thermostat where "STUCK" in one of the engine block "valley", like you can see in the 2 pictures below (pointed out by the orange plastic bar):
As a result, now, the lower Samco hose that goes to the radiator is too short and not long enough to reach the radiator by about 5cm, pictures below show the gap between the hose and the radiator flange:
Initially, I thought I am going to fix this gap by buying the Ducabike Performance Technology
In-Line Radiator Coolers, but I was planning to only use the LOWER SHORTER heatsink pipe because I just don't like the looks of this part especially the longer pipe:
But then I realized that internally this pipe also has heatsink (to absorb the heat from the coolant with more surface area like in these pictures below:
The problem with this heatsink/fin inside the pipe/tube is, it actually RESTRICT the flow of the coolant and I do NOT like that...
So I try to think on what other solution that I can use to bridge the gap while still looking good... and I find the answer, picture below
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This is SAMCO POLISHED BILLET Aluminum joiner and I just ordered it from UK, hopefully will arrive in the next few weeks... Not only it looks PERFECT
, it's also from Samco so it will match my Samco hoses
and now I can relax and time for me to go to sleep
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