I am trying to find for a very long time information about the JAWA engine with a fuel injection system made by Pete Smiley. Is on this forum maybe someone...
How did you end up with the inj jawa? I rode for Pete in 1977 on a really cool hand made 4 valve gear drive overhead cam jawa and remember the inj bike but...
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Mar 1, 2009 5:02 pm
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Did Pete also made a gear driven 4 Valve OHC conversion? Was this a SOHC or a DOHC? and do you have any further information like an old photo from this...
I have a crate somewhere full of pixs and programs from 73 to 83 I will look around, I have a shot of me and Pete with both bikes at Costa mesa Sent via...
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Mar 1, 2009 6:55 pm
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There are many types 4 valve conversions made for the Jawa engine, but the only 1 that I have seen before with a gear driven DOHC was the ERM...
He machined it from billet and it was a really nice piece, it ran good to. Pete also built from what I remember Kenny Roberts 750 twin dirt trackers for Shell...
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Mar 1, 2009 8:27 pm
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Does anyone know if there is anything in the rule book that says we cant do this; I have been toying around with a fuel pump system and have come very close to...
A bit of topic, but do you know something from other USA build speedway machines like the conversion made by Ray Bokelman, this was a standard jawa DOHC 4...
In Europe I think that fuel injection is forbidden and you can use only carbs, 34mm for speedway, 38mm for the continental style sidecars. I know that in...
That helps a bit, i think the way im doing it will be allowed but the hard part so far is finding the correct psi which differs from the normal 12 psi most...
Pete also had a thing for wood plank and really old dirt track bikes also, he found a 1921 ish harley in New Zealand that was ony intended as a display bike...
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Mar 1, 2009 9:53 pm
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so he had already figured this out and made it work? what happened to it, and why didnt it continue on for others riders to take advantage of it? ... bikes...
Seems like a lot of work, you need more power? I had a kinsler constant flow FI on Danny Thompsons old stadium truck, it is very finicky and very complicated,...
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Mar 1, 2009 9:58 pm
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I received the following e-mail from Elliott Iverson of the Southern California Flat Track Association regarding Perris Raceway being discussed at the Perris...
The other system i am palying with is totally nonmechanical, top end is great, just a small amount of bottom end so far, i think ive only tapped 10% more...
See new photoalbum FUEL INJECTED ENGINES, there are 2 (very small) photos of the old OHV Jawa with the Smiley fuel injection system. ... end ... only ... i ......
nice, by now we should be trying to make these things run green on veggie oil,lol, well if i get this right it should be a hot runner. ... if ... Jawa. ... ...
Castrol is veggie oil and methanol is made from corn. Can you get any greener than that? ... small) ... top ... out, ... will ... kinsler ... very ... system ...
ha ha,lol, 1 point to Andy. ... any ... on ... runner. ... system. ... ive ... 44 ... Injected ... that ... It ... Jawa. ... that ... if ... piece, ... Jawa ...
with hard economic times im switching then to crisco or conola oil then. ... any ... on ... runner. ... system. ... ive ... 44 ... Injected ... that ... It ......
Updated in album Fuel Injected Engines a photo from a Jawa iceracer with a modified Hilborn Fuel injection System. ... nonmechanical, ... it ... to ... is ... ...
What a bike, look at the spikes on the tires, old pics are awsome. ... oil ... get ... green ... think ... figure ... heres ... track. ... Injected ... book ...
In the album Fuel injected engines is now a German engine the ERLA, (a JAP look a like) with a mechanical fuel injection system. The Fuel pomp is driven by the...
Ethanol is made from corn. Methanol is made from natural gas or coal gas. ... any ... on ... runner. ... system. ... ive ... 44 ... Injected ... that ... It ...