[MENTION=335]C-Leigh Racing[/MENTION]..
I believe that it might be the other Neil some of you are thinking about. Cant remember his last name, but he does a lot of drag stuff like Pete does. Was a member the other day asking about him, he hadnt seen or heard from him in a while & was wondering what was up.
kb250r is correct, he has the 1 & only CPI cylinder I'll ever touch.
My reason, I've been in 2 strokes for many years & as I went through those years, I got gut feeling on how some things operated & some things produced I just didnt have a good feeling about it. Its kinda like all these new 4 pokers, has something to do with it, by them being so high priced off the floor & for parts & up keep.
When you design a 2 stroke product, your not dealing with the main stream everyday used type of machines sitting on the show room floor, so consideration needs to be made for who it might be will use your products.
With our ol 250Rs, the price of some of these things produced today, the moneys just not there from the regular consumer. Granted there are some owners with deep pockets, but it is a slim few. So, why produce a product that will take every penny a regular person has.
Now I'm not knocking the CPI stuff in any way, I consider it to the highest quality you can buy, but, how many ways can you design a 2 stroke cylinder & make it into something never ever produced any years before it. There are some projects out there though, that are breaking new ground in design. In the end though, they will probably be in the to high priced range for many to afford.
With the 4 pokes on the market today & the parts offered, high as they are, it sets a sight that some will try to match up to & it just cant be, not for a 2 stroke world of today.
Getting back on the transmissions, any of the hollow OEM gears in the TRX250R transmission will be the failing point of all of them. There may be some stock Rs transmissions out there that are holding up, but if you really check into them close, they are probably not binding those rear tires up grabbing every inch of traction they can get. Check out just about any drag quad, long swingarm & real high speed wheel spin. You bind a quad down, short swingarm like in TT racing, placing those rear tires close as you can under that riders butt & your hunting for all the traction you can find to push that rider & quad forward. Wheel spin in TT racing, = going to the back of the pack.
Out of all that, you can see the strain on all those gears & the job that they have to do & stay alive.
If all the gears were solid, wider & thicker, they probably could stand a lot more HP thrown to them, but what most of us have, old, beat up & weak, we are lucky any of them are still in the cases on the first pull or lap.
kb250r racing his trike in TT, after the build, busted a set of checked close for cracks, cryo hardened, back cut & polished gears. Next he got the ones LED offers & busted those, so what is a 250R owner to do. It does look like the Baldwin gears over the years must be the best, but I have no clue who produced them.
Neil
