Scooterotica

its been a long time since any new development on the vespa t5 engine, no barral kits, exhausts, cranks, clutches, carbs etc etc.
so is anybody doing anything new anywhere that us t5 riders need to know about. Even new porting techniques? pics prices contacts etc appreciated.

What would you like to see? Long stroke crank?
It would be good to see standard heads being remade as they are getting really rare, gone are the days of picking them up for a fiver at parts fairs.

ime running a suzuki ts 185 piston in a polini barral revolver exhaust standard carb with a drt float bowl sat on top of a drt reedvalve, polini induction kit, 21 tooth clutch =15bhp tuned by chiselspeed

looking for something inotive as ime wanting to have a rebuild on my other t5 engine its got a malossi 172 sat in it at present

I think there's quite a lot innovation being done out there but i presume your talking about "out of the box"and bolt together. I like the side of scootering where lads are doing the R&D themselves which i find refreshing. A lot of the racers are one man band outfits using their ingenuity and tight budgets to make fast competitive scooters. It's these innovative ideas that the big companies develop.

There's lots of innovative ideas out there for a T5 without having to wait for someone to do it for you, look at the Germans !! get to some race meetings and see what can be done without using the plug and play stuff.

ime running a suzuki ts 185 piston in a polini barral revolver exhaust standard carb with a drt float bowl sat on top of a drt reedvalve, polini induction kit, 21 tooth clutch =15bhp tuned by chiselspeed

Is this the engine where you used the offset crank and turned a standard crank into a long stroke ? Quite an innovative idea.

cheers, still wanting ideas etc, anything welcome

Put an Avanti barrel on and keep up with the big boys

Seriously though there was a set of casings on e-bay modified to take a lambretta barrel (TS1 i think).....don't think there's a Vespa running an Avanti at the moment...avanti barrel, long stroke, reed valve, running nitrous....

looked down the ts1 road mick bit exspensive for my budget wonderd if any body had the old mb kawasaki spec?

Fast Tony's putting a kawasaki barrel on his GP....is that what you mean? if it's being on a lambretta shouldn't be that much more difficult on a vespa..

no mb used a kwaka piston was 190cc but dont know the set up crank barral etc

Be innovative......put the barrel on !