Category: Maintenance Log

This evening Bart’s engine moved from his garage to my living room.  This is where it was in his garage.  We used an engine hoist on his end to lift it into the back of his van.

This is it in my living room.  You can also see the carbs that Phil is letting me borrow while I figure out how to make this whole fuel injection thing work.  A bit of brown mud came out of the water pipe when we were maneuvering it around in my living room.  Hopefully that’ll come out of the carpet easily 🙂

I just purchased both a CBR600RR 07-09 pump (it was an 09 with 400 miles that I picked up) and a CBR600RR 09 (not sure what other years are the same) tip-over sensor on EBay for $29.99 each shipped. They should be here next week. Now I have the throttle body (with TPS), fuel pump, and tip-over sensor. Still to get are several additional sensors, a MegaSquirt, injectors, piping, fuel and air filters, etc. I also have to build injector manifolds and an air splitter. Might need to build a cam for the throttle cable as well.

It appears that a Honda CBR1000RR 08-09 or a CBR600RR 07-09 pump might be the ticket for me. It isn’t an external pump but I could fab up something to put it in as a secondary tank. The unit is nice, small, compact, designed to put out 50psi, appears to have a built-in pressure regulator so that it’s already regulated when it leaves the pump thus negating any need for a return line, and has a low fuel warning sensor that I am sure I could find use for.

The CBR1000RR pump puts out about 1200 cc/min while the CBR600RR pump puts out 1000 cc/min. Both are above the 600cc/min that my bike’s existing pump is rated for. I wonder if the 600RR pump would consume less amps than the 1000RR pump. Both are priced about the same on EBay. The less power consumed, the better for my bike. The PC is already underpowered as it is. I need to be careful not to use up all the juice I rely on to have heated socks in the winter!