chrissoz
Senior member
- Location
- Sydney, Australia
So I’ve owned SF 13370 since Mid 2011 – purchased from Made in Italy Motorcycles and shipped to me in Australia. Bike came with no history or documentation and was showing 45,000km.
www.madeinitalymotorcycles.com
Was a little disappointed with the condition – cracked headlight, missing spoke and a few other bits and pieces that MIIM had not listed and were not obvious in the photos. But she ran OK and gave my 12 years of fun riding.
I changed out the bellmouth for pod filters, the original exhaust cracked after a few months and was replaced by an Armours stainless steel setup. New primay and cam chains were fitted early on in my ownership and the points were replaced with Sachse electronic ignition. Compression was a bit low at 110 and 115 PSI and it was a bit smokey. Later fitted rearsets which I think makes everything look tidier.
Roll on to mid 2023 and during a bout of covid I decided to replace the horrible hacked about wiring with an M-unit (because I like that kind of thing and hated the cramped connector blocks under the tank of the original setup). Well once I stared stripping stuff down I could not stop, decide I better look at the cylinders to see why the low compression and smoke. Pistons turned out to be 80.6 and the ring gap was 3x what was recommended so time for new pistons and a rebore.
While peering down into the sump could see some nuggets and bit and pieces – one of which turned out to be part of a gearbox spacer…
… split the cases and could see the missing space, bent circlip and damaged bushing on 4th gear. Apart from that everything looked good. Redax ran me up a new bushing and good to go.
While everything was apart seemed like a good opportunity to vapor blast all the cases and repaint the frame. Swingarm had been seized for a while so that was freed up and new spacers made. Rear shocks were pretty ugly so were put to one side and replaced with some lovely Nitron units from DAM Laverda. Redax supplied some fancy new pistons and a whole lot of other bits and pieces.
Fork stations were bent so these were straightened by Greg Ball Motorcycle Engineering at the same time as the rebore.
All the electronics (regulator, coils, starter relay) are now modern items which gives so much more space to work in.
After a bit of a pause for a smashed collar bone and broken ribs everything went back together nicely but was not running that well, misfiring on one cylinder. After a bit of help from the forum and some diagnostics new carb slides and needles fixed this up and now it start usually without choke, idles beautifully and runs better than ever (or at least since it entered my possession).
Still to do – tidy up some of the wiring. Find a better way to attach the seat (so I can get at the toolkit- currently using some wingnuts but they are a pain to get in place. Decide whether to repaint the tank and side panels/restore the clocks/put an SFC faring on. Ride more.
Should have taken more photos during the process.
Preveously Sold 2010-2011
Made in Italy Motorcycles Preveously Sold 2010-2011
www.madeinitalymotorcycles.com
Was a little disappointed with the condition – cracked headlight, missing spoke and a few other bits and pieces that MIIM had not listed and were not obvious in the photos. But she ran OK and gave my 12 years of fun riding.
I changed out the bellmouth for pod filters, the original exhaust cracked after a few months and was replaced by an Armours stainless steel setup. New primay and cam chains were fitted early on in my ownership and the points were replaced with Sachse electronic ignition. Compression was a bit low at 110 and 115 PSI and it was a bit smokey. Later fitted rearsets which I think makes everything look tidier.
Roll on to mid 2023 and during a bout of covid I decided to replace the horrible hacked about wiring with an M-unit (because I like that kind of thing and hated the cramped connector blocks under the tank of the original setup). Well once I stared stripping stuff down I could not stop, decide I better look at the cylinders to see why the low compression and smoke. Pistons turned out to be 80.6 and the ring gap was 3x what was recommended so time for new pistons and a rebore.
While peering down into the sump could see some nuggets and bit and pieces – one of which turned out to be part of a gearbox spacer…
… split the cases and could see the missing space, bent circlip and damaged bushing on 4th gear. Apart from that everything looked good. Redax ran me up a new bushing and good to go.
While everything was apart seemed like a good opportunity to vapor blast all the cases and repaint the frame. Swingarm had been seized for a while so that was freed up and new spacers made. Rear shocks were pretty ugly so were put to one side and replaced with some lovely Nitron units from DAM Laverda. Redax supplied some fancy new pistons and a whole lot of other bits and pieces.
Fork stations were bent so these were straightened by Greg Ball Motorcycle Engineering at the same time as the rebore.
All the electronics (regulator, coils, starter relay) are now modern items which gives so much more space to work in.
After a bit of a pause for a smashed collar bone and broken ribs everything went back together nicely but was not running that well, misfiring on one cylinder. After a bit of help from the forum and some diagnostics new carb slides and needles fixed this up and now it start usually without choke, idles beautifully and runs better than ever (or at least since it entered my possession).
Still to do – tidy up some of the wiring. Find a better way to attach the seat (so I can get at the toolkit- currently using some wingnuts but they are a pain to get in place. Decide whether to repaint the tank and side panels/restore the clocks/put an SFC faring on. Ride more.
Should have taken more photos during the process.
