the kinetic tfr project

So there has been an issue for a long time getting larger carbs on to Vespa mopeds (Ciao, Bravo, Grande, Si) and Kinetic TFRs. The main issue is that the intake manifold is built in to the larger crank case half and the shape of the port is part of the timing valve. So you […]

I just posted a ton of info on a moped army forum and though i would capture it here as well:
You can get Polini Evo engines a few places like:
http://www.50cc.nl
or from one of these two places that are in Germany and Switzerland respectively - unfortunately, their sites are in German but you can use Google […]

After getting some email from a nice guy in Sweeden (Johan), I was told that the Kinetic TFR was marketed and sold in Sweden under the name “Baghee”. I am not sure what the word means in either Swedish or Hindi. Here is what Johan had to say about them:

I don’t think they are being […]

As I mentioned in a previous post, I bought a case splitter from an eBay store called “sportingforless.”
I also have another call in to Mike, the parts manager at Cosmo. Hope he has some better news than last time. Or at least returns my call. That would be a start.
Anyway, the splitter looks like this:

And […]

So I pretty much knew that this would end in disaster, but I did my first round of port maching/boring a little while ago. Not that you really get “rounds” to do this. Smitty from smc uses the phrase “boat anchor” on his site in several places to describe a crank case that was incorrectly […]