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Originally Posted by csmith12
You speak of what tugs at my gut to build.
I wanna take your exact bike (Virago) and make a scrambler out of it.
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I was attracted to the V-Twin engine. Used for years by Yamaha. First V-Twin from Japan to try and compete with the U.S. Harley-Davidson market.
What makes this bike so nice is the possibilities as a custom bike that it offers.
One major problem with the bike is that Yamaha stuffed SO MUCH crap in between the two V-Twin cylinders! They have the two carbs in between the cylinders, the emission crap, the vacuum and fuel lines, air cleaner boots. It took me almost 4 hours to remove the carbs!!! I thought that getting the Ninja carbs out was tough with the Ninja big plastic air box! But with so much crap in between the cylinders, it was worse.
That is why I went with the single carb manifold mod that many Virago owners have gone to. Now there is almost nothing between the cylinders, but the steel manifold.
The Virago would be a great scrambler or street tracker build project. And they are CHEAP.
Thanks.