Anders

I actually want MORE noise, not less! I like mechanical whirring and popping and sucking and general clatter, I must be somewhat aurally depraved - I used to run the fastest Caterham 7 in England (possibly the world) back in the day, and it won the Autocar 0-100-0 mph sprint in 1992, used to be fun decelerating hard at bus stop lines, the beast put out quite a flame at shin height! - there is nothing quite like an all steel Cosworth 2 litre BDG on cam, fuel injection and all Quaiffe straight cut gears doing the business! Marvelous! The closest I have ever come to repeating that experience is with my Rocket III, so have gone with a GIPro, being installed next week, throttle butterfly attention, getting rid of the cat, keeping the tors, and a few other bits n pieces, but the mod I have really been hankering after is velocity stacks. My friendly local mechanic is chopping down a bear claw next week for another Captain and fitting triple k and ns, but I want the retro look and more intake noise - I'll go along and check out his work (he said he cuts it down by eye) and I've never heard the III k 'n' ns so defo want to check out the setup (I may end up with it eventually if the Raasks do not work out) - anyhoos I've bitten the bullet and ordered the Raask kit from Sweden via the USA importer Rob Ward (Omar's DTR 925-429-6277 $240 + shipping, if you want a set too get in quick as he's putting in a large order very soon) - I've spoken to Silvert Raask via email and this is what he had to say...

Hi Andy, I don´t have foams the stacks but I think you can fit something
over the net by clamps. The hole in the net are very small. I have over 5000
miles
on my own RIII even in rain, no problem sofar.
If you need more nfo Andy, please let me know.
Best regards.
Sivert Raask.
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Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 3:56 AM
Subject: Raask Velocity Stacks


> Hi,
>
> Just wondering if you have any Raask Velocity Engine Stacks for a 2005
> Triumph Rocket III available in the USA? Also, is it possible to fit any
> foam within the stacks to give some sort of engine protection?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Andy


Yes I am taking a risk with badgers voles seagulls etc getting sucked in, but I live on the beach, clean air pretty much, haven't seen any sandstorms yet, little rain down here compared to England, I think I'll be OK - will have to completely remove the bear claw I think and rig up some nice upholsterer's gubbins around the edge of the tank ... the same kind of edging around my CF shorty helmet from that Co in Orlando, piccies here of the III Raasks...

Will look into some sort of foam protection asap too...

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Anders

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Gothlander

I don't have pic's sorry but you just have to tweak the original brackets and pack them with spacers. The rubber can be brought from a shop like clark rubber in Australia. It is just a pinchweld with a round profile on the top like a small n with an o on it.

GPMAZ

Anders,

Those pics are nice, but how about some of the Caterham??

Anders

Hmmm, I will have to dig some out, meanwhile here is my (alas now deceased) beloved CATerham, by the name of Cosworth, or Cossie, for short :O)))

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ol skol

id re think the stacks.. ever clean a set of kn's after a few k miles.. major dirty.. with no filter that stuff is going down the intake. ya know, where all that close tolerance machining was done.

Anders

I knoooowwww ... but...

ol skol

dude i feel your pain... v stacks are like midget sex.. you know it's wrong but you still want it.. i saw mary popins.. you guys invented global warming.. just think of all that crap getting sucked inside..


brian, brian , brian

Anders

dude i feel your pain... v stacks are like midget sex..


LMFAO!!! LOL LOL LOL! (never been my cup of tea tbh!)



you know it's wrong but you still want it..



yeppers

i used to go to all the sprints and races back in the day

the guys wd rebuild engines in their caravans, anything to gain an edge

on a kinda weird/maybe depressing note

the economy is tanking, resale values are tanking, if i blew an engine i reckon i cd pick up a used one at auction for not a lot of money

my old cosworth all steel bdg formula atlantic cost 15,000 pounds, about 20,000 bux, maybe 25k back in 1990, in all probability more

there is a guy, richardson, building them now, and i think they are going for silly money, not the workmanship and skill involved, just the end cost

so to drop 2 or 3k for a new r3 engine is not the end of the world, otoh i don't and won't abuse anything that i believe cannot take the 'abuse', apart from my wife, of course :O)



i saw mary popins.. you guys invented global warming..



ok don't get me started on the global warming scam/hoax, it does not exist, it is just a means of raising revenue via taxes imho and cementing more control over society!!!!!

ok

listen to alan watt on the inet, and dyor




just think of all that crap getting sucked inside..


brian, brian , brian


yeah, i knooooowwwww,

but

Anders

wowowow



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