DiTech pilota
aka Dragster pilota
Ciao Tifosi...
Since I no longer work with Aprilia Scooters (now dealing with larger bikes) I have been forced to put my NOS-DiTech on ice for now, so here I'm sitting with a NOS-Holley kit for small displacement 2-strokers and not sure what to do with it...
A while ago I found the Simonini Ciao race motor on the web and it has been there in the back of my (sometimes dark and cazed) mind and yesterday when I talked to a friend of mine, she told me that the motor on her Ciao had given up totally, I offered to buy the pieces but she did not want anything for it so I said I'll give you €50.- for the pieces and that's it, she said OK....
So now I have a Ciao with a dead motor, a NOS kit and a wicked mind. I got on the phone with a bike & moped parts company and ordered a bunch of odds and ends for the project, I'm also ordering the Simonini Ciao race motor either from a Danish web shop @ €760.- or directly from Simonini, so in a couple of weeks it all starts....
The Ciao will be stripped of all lights and unnecessary weight, the fenders will be bobbed and all of it will be painted DP semigloss black with the rims polished, there will most likely be a bunch of other modifications along the way, thinking of a Rock Shop MTB fork and some other possibilities...
For now this is the stuff that'll go into the project.....
Simonini race motor with 12hp @ 10.000rpm:
48mm alu cylinder
Long stroke crank
26mm Dellorto
Big Valve reed block
Race CDI
Race clutch
Expansion pipe with carbon fibre silencer
The NOS kit:
Ten ounce nitrous bottle
Electric fuel pump, driven with 9.5 volt battery
Nitrous and fuel solenoids, also driven off the 9.5 volt battery
Fogger2 nozzle
Filters, fittings, tubing, T-fittings, jets, switch, hose and billet brackets
Other stuff:
Amoeba BMX bars
Amoeba BMX stem
Snafu BMX pegs
Piaggio star aloy rims
SBS brake shoes (will be grooved)
Pirelli ML75 tires
I'm really looking forward to geting this project on the road since the NOS DiTech & Scarabeo MHR 125 went out the door when I left the Aprilia dealer and all my Monkey parts including the supercharger was sold off to my painter. Now I just have some updates to do on The Formula then its Simonini Ciao time.....
DP says: You might think I'm totally wacked and YES I sure am.....
Since I no longer work with Aprilia Scooters (now dealing with larger bikes) I have been forced to put my NOS-DiTech on ice for now, so here I'm sitting with a NOS-Holley kit for small displacement 2-strokers and not sure what to do with it...
A while ago I found the Simonini Ciao race motor on the web and it has been there in the back of my (sometimes dark and cazed) mind and yesterday when I talked to a friend of mine, she told me that the motor on her Ciao had given up totally, I offered to buy the pieces but she did not want anything for it so I said I'll give you €50.- for the pieces and that's it, she said OK....
So now I have a Ciao with a dead motor, a NOS kit and a wicked mind. I got on the phone with a bike & moped parts company and ordered a bunch of odds and ends for the project, I'm also ordering the Simonini Ciao race motor either from a Danish web shop @ €760.- or directly from Simonini, so in a couple of weeks it all starts....
The Ciao will be stripped of all lights and unnecessary weight, the fenders will be bobbed and all of it will be painted DP semigloss black with the rims polished, there will most likely be a bunch of other modifications along the way, thinking of a Rock Shop MTB fork and some other possibilities...
For now this is the stuff that'll go into the project.....
Simonini race motor with 12hp @ 10.000rpm:
48mm alu cylinder
Long stroke crank
26mm Dellorto
Big Valve reed block
Race CDI
Race clutch
Expansion pipe with carbon fibre silencer
The NOS kit:
Ten ounce nitrous bottle
Electric fuel pump, driven with 9.5 volt battery
Nitrous and fuel solenoids, also driven off the 9.5 volt battery
Fogger2 nozzle
Filters, fittings, tubing, T-fittings, jets, switch, hose and billet brackets
Other stuff:
Amoeba BMX bars
Amoeba BMX stem
Snafu BMX pegs
Piaggio star aloy rims
SBS brake shoes (will be grooved)
Pirelli ML75 tires
I'm really looking forward to geting this project on the road since the NOS DiTech & Scarabeo MHR 125 went out the door when I left the Aprilia dealer and all my Monkey parts including the supercharger was sold off to my painter. Now I just have some updates to do on The Formula then its Simonini Ciao time.....
DP says: You might think I'm totally wacked and YES I sure am.....
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