Hot Bike Buildup

This time, horsepower teams up with a boss builder of champion motorcycles and Wyotech gearhead grads to build a tense competition, street monster. It'll be the ultimate VT win bike that you could actually win.

Ok.

You know, we love making horsepower and usually it's in motors well, like that 440 back there, but not this time.

You see today, you're gonna witness the build up of a hot rod bike that uses this for its power.

It's a G 2 126 cubic inch, 150 horse V twin.

Our special guest is the brains behind this awesome motor, a guy who was born to run fast and destined to ride on the leading edge of high performance

meet George Bryce, one of the most dynamic forces in the world of N hr, a pro stock motorcycle competition

as a rider coach and team owner. He's earned a half a dozen national championships and 69 event victories.

It all started back when he and his wife, Jackie would show up at local tracks in Southern Georgia competing for small purses on the way to big

dreams.

After a successful racing career, the couple founded star racing in 1980.

Quickly earning a national reputation for their R and D engine building and pro machining

soon George was guiding other riders like the late great John Myers

and against all odds, he helped an untested young rider named Angel Samp

to become the winningest female in the sport

this year. They're back together with on

riding this 350 horsepower V twin Buell on the N Hr A circuit.

Also, recently, he teamed up with George Smith of S MS Cycles to form a company called G two Motor Sports.

Their new 126 cubic inch V twin is assembled here and is being transplanted into all kinds of bagger street bikes offering the most kick in the pants power ever to hit the street.

We're getting ready to discover some of SNS genius in building our own G two V twin with these parts and the bike that goes around it. Now, the best part Joe and I don't have to do any of the work that's in the hands of a couple of gearhead school grads that have to finish their final exam here in the horsepower shop.

Wild

Daytona Motorcycle Campus is a 100,000 square foot training facility

where Steve Winston's staff teaches Asian

European and domestic bike tech.

This is truly the epicenter of motorcycling in this country.

We're changing lives. We're giving guys uh careers instead of jobs. Career training is hands on from diagnostics to repair.

You learn how to properly use shop equipment and tools. Well, like the blow bench

here. A GSXR is ready for a 15,000 mile shakedown

in one of the special classes for push rod and overhead cam motors.

Students learn

to

motor building dyno

testing and engine tuning.

Yeah, it may be school but it's far from boring.

This camp is also provides tech training for personal watercraft outboard in board and diesel marine.

Our student is able to go in as an entry level technician and begin making money immediately for a dealership. And that's what's, that's what's important.

America's largest Harley dealership is next door,

Bruce Ross

Meyer's Daytona showroom has a staggering selection

of around 1000 new Harleys to choose from

and with all the prep and service that goes on in this massive shop. Well, it's no surprise. The Ross Meyer Tech staff

includes graduates from

Wyotech

and no surprise horsepower chose these Wyotech bike techs to build a motor for the Supreme Street machine.

Rob Gibbs

and James Mickelson from the Daytona campus

and Paul Gilbert from the Fremont California campus.

Here comes coach Bryce riding to work in style

and here are the parts that comprise the 1 26 ft. Wind

Rob and James waste no time going to work first, unbolting and separating the motors case

so they can install that massive crank with a 43, 16 stroke and heavy duty rides hanging on it.

We got some lube going on

in the squirters. We got lock tight going on the screws. Oh, too much silicone there, James. Remember it's not a Chevy big block.

The

direct,

these are very similar to the automotive cams. This particular style is uh a hydraulic grind. 640 lift has 250 degrees duration at 50/1000 lift. And uh it's a gear driven set which is very unique. Anything particularly uh important about the way you install them? Sure.

Um,

actually, uh,

you know, Joe, I really haven't installed many cams, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.

Then that's, that's all you need.

I'm so impressed.

Now, this billet plate that's part of the oiling system can go on.

Well, most re valves are used uh

in musical instruments or in two strokes. But this is a pretty neat, patented part, residual oil carry over and also for crank case ventilation. A

lot of interesting parts going into this machine,

check out that rocker shaft, for example, at 7000 RPM and tons of spring pressure in a really heavy weight valve.

The camshaft is trying to push this around here and the valve is trying to push this around here. So it ends up twisting on just like a torsion ball.

The wild tech team is off to a good start but soon we'll see if they can pick up the pace to keep this bike build on track.

Hey, Welcome back to Horsepower. Hey George, how do you think this hot bike build up is gone so far? Looks great. Those guys are uh really in the know, I

that's good. Let's get back and watch them. Let's do it.

This is our uh positive displacement year. We do it next with another time in market.

Great.

As soon as they get this buttoned up, Robin James can move on to the valve train,

Put a little lube in here

and the camp

shaft. I got my

two old rings oiled up in the stall, got my gasket on,

lay this on there.

If you

want,

we have to run a lot of spring pressure and because we have a lot of spring pressure,

we wanna run a travel limiter in our lifter

to keep the lash

in this hydraulic. And I'm gonna let my Wyotech Man install the lifters for us.

So this little pin right here,

that's a pretty cool little trick. Keeps the lifters from turning

the fit between the lifter

and the lifter bore is very, very important because

that's how you maintain oil pressure in the lifter. If the lifter fit loose in the bore, then there would be a very good possibility we have leak down and you'd lose the lash at, at idle.

Every step is a new engine building lesson with this 126.

They've got to install these studs next to make way for the motors, pistons and rods

All right. Next

big boar big piston for, yeah, it's four and 384, which is bigger than your typical 454 Chevy.

I want to share with you the ring package. We have your typical three piece oil ring.

We have a really cool second ring

ducal iron ta

face

and then we have a Molly

top ring that's plasma spray. It's got a channel machine in it.

The cutaway and the cylinder here matches the cutaway of the cylinder. Joe's handling. Now, since the Boers are so big. When the piston goes all the way down,

you can see that if the piston comes through.

Here we go. Coming down to the bottom piston shows

well, these pistons would hit each other

if we didn't have this notch on the piston and the cutaway. So the boars are so large pistons would clank at the bottom. So that's why we have that cutaway

and that little bump goes down. Of course.

All right. Perfect.

B two still in her heads for big valves. Both of them 2.2 intake, 1 800 exhaust. They're big, heavy stainless steel, big high flow

run, big valve springs.

It's quite a trick to get the head lined up with those studs, a tight fit with very little wiggle room,

a

little bit longer

sets in where we can have the rocker arm. Actually

pivot in this rocker assembly

that he's putting together now where I push the valve open and the push rod will come up from the lifter while it pivots on the rocker shaft.

If you run it all the way down, till

it bottoms out in the lifter and then we backed it off seven flats to get it back in the middle of our range of adjust building.

This particular carburetor is a SNS Super G.

And what's neat about it is,

it's got an accelerator pump and when we put this 126 in our uh baggers, we need uh a carburetor that's very treatable to go along with how much horsepower we have.

And this intake manifold, you can see it's a really large compared to

uh like a stock uh 88 inch and also the odd shaped intake ports that our B two cylinder heads have on our 126

trying to help Paul line up the bolts

on the back of the carburetor.

Hey, great job guys. Well, well, hang with us. We'll meet you in the paint booth when we come back.

Make sure that we're good.

Oh, yeah, that's beautiful.

Horse. Power is back with 100 and 50 horse V twin just built by a team from Wyotech. Now we go from power to paint

and for that, we pass the baton on to a couple of guys that came in from the Wyotech campus in Sacramento, Gus Augustine and Elroy Wri.

Now right now they're prepping the bikes frame and getting it really smooth, ready for a shot of black paint.

The G two uses a carbon fiber front fender and balance,

but the guys will have to paint the rear fender this cover for the electronics

and of course, the fuel tank. Now Dan Dermott here heads up the street ride with paint program on campus. What do you guys have planned artistically for this thing?

We're gonna start with a black base and we're going to lay out flames down the sides

and put realistic fire behind it

on the fender. We're going to do the same thing. We're gonna put taped flames on the sides and put realistic fire down the center of it. First, we're gonna remove this tape that marks an imperfection like this scratch that we need to fix. We have a really big chip here

and we also have a messed up area here that would need some major repair

down in the paint booth. The repaired areas get spot prime,

then it's time for some serious sanding

and wet sand.

After laying on two coats of sealer,

each piece gets two coats of base coat black

and a coat of interco clear

back in the shop, the artwork comes to life as Elroy lays down the low

tech mask on the take, low tech means they come off easily without Resident

Dan puts his years of experience to work outlining the flames before the students take over masking and filling in the flame lick.

Now the cool part, airbrushing,

six coats of alternating yellow and candy colors.

Dan sets the tank on fire but the real heat is on Elroy who has to mimic his mentor style.

Yeah, I didn't think I was gonna get an opportunity like this, this soon.

The thing is you gotta kinda lose yourself in it. You know, when you're dealing with fire is so sporadic and it's just so unstructured that you just gotta pretty much be fire,

just go with it.

You did a good job on this and using the airbrush and everything and good consistency and uh

I like the way you used a lot of lines in there. You highlight spots on the S MS logo.

It's so nice.

Finally, some pinstriping to punctuate the graphics and this Hot rod black is ready for assemble.

I

will never give a damn shot.

You gonna be crying, man.

All right. Show him some of that West Sacramento Prize.

Horsepower is back with the ultimate hot rod bike bill and it all started with a team of gear heads from Wild

Tech Daytona and Fremont California campuses building a 126 B twin with parts from SNS cycle.

A street friendly motor capable of 12th runs on the strip.

Meanwhile, a second team from Wild

Tech Sacramento Campus provided the painting prowess necessary to give this warbird some serious attitude

and personality.

Well, the painters have left the building now it's time to put it all together so we can get this bad bike on the

dyno before the end of the show.

Now, for this job, we've got Paul James and Rob back in action with assembly well underway.

They've got the motor boat to our freshly painted frame now backed by a six speed SNS

mission with overdrive. Well, so far so good George and I like the way you got all this power planted on nice rubber mounts for a little extra comfort. We like that at our age. That's exactly right. This is our

uh the front engine mount right here which controls the engine travel and also it's a rubber mounted so that we get rid of that V twin vibration.

We on top, we have uh the uh actual vertical alignment

mount that we have to keep the engine straight in alignment so that the back wheel, the swing arm and the engine are all tied together

in the back of the where the transmission and the swing arm are actually mounted. We're also rubber mounted

just like on the uh fl or the road king baggers.

Ok. On with the assembly, the hydraulic corks can go on next. By the way, these have adjustments for both rebound and dampening.

Next to go on are the 17 inch magnesium wheels wrapped with metzler rubber.

When you ride a bike that has 100 and 50 horsepower, you want the best stopping power possible. In that case, we're using this Brembo set up that has 330 millimeter rotors. Now that's almost 13 inches followed by a dual four piston caliper set up.

Now, check this out the brake line T gets in inside the headlight shell. Now that's pretty slick. And then we finish up the front with the throttle.

We asked our neighbor Rick for a muscle car to pinstripe the front, carbon fiber fender.

But you know how those painters are. This guy doesn't know when to stop.

Why even Pinstriped George's leg breaks. Too easy. Guy's gotta give me a harder one next time.

Next, the flaming rear fender gets bolted up.

Now, notice how they premounted the fender struts to keep from scratching the paint.

Now the guys mount the rear wheel and tire

and install the chain using the piece of pre threaded wire.

Now the rear shocks bolt to the swing arm and through the fender struts and into the frame

and then time to install the rear brake.

What do you think so far? Well, it's looking good. The wild

tech guys have done a great job and we're almost finished. All right. Oh, by the way, this is Derek who's been patiently supervising all the work behind the scenes. Well, like he does with George every day at G two.

Let me guess. Time for exhaust. Yeah, the exhaust systems. Next, we have a new product here from uh rush racing products with, in conjunction with G two motor sports, it's a two into one exhaust,

uh big pipes for the handle, the horsepower from this big engine we've got

and

no

side has uh four Bolans

which will be extra insurance against any exhaust leads.

Finally, we get to see how that flaming fuel tank looks on top of this STX and

I think the consensus is it looks pretty hot.

We can fire it up after this.

An ignition from IST which stands for Intelligence, spark technology,

man. This thing sounds awesome. Good job guys, you really pulled this thing off. Now, we also need to give thanks to the students at the Blairsville Pennsylvania campus for making this leather seat to finish off the Wyotech Warbird. Now, the fun part for us, horsepower guys seeing what this two wheel hot rod makes on the chassis. Dyno

only problem is ours is a four Wheler. We gotta go to your place. Uh Please cue that transition. You know the time lapse.

Well, you guys said it'd make 100 and 50 horsepower. There's 100 and 53 that time. Way to go, man. That's cool. That's cool. Well, I guess we're done here. No, we need to go outside and see if it'll make smoke.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, that's quite a road burn, wouldn't you say?

And we gotta say thanks to the guys from Wyotech that put it all together.

You'll see this bike down the road on horsepower.

Uh Just don't blink,

you'll miss it.