Just curious really... does this hand-written scrawl on the back of my engine mean anything? I mean, sure, it must mean something... but anyone have any ideas?
Is possible I suppose, has an odd history. I got the bike @ 4 years old with ~3000 miles on it, from it's second owner... he said he bought it at 1 year old with less than 200 miles on it from a guy who had it hung on his wall! Bike was immaculate when I got it. Personally though I think @Muffking suggestion is more likely! Does anyone else's blade engine have any hand-written codes on the back?
During my sons racing days I used a guy called Dick Sullivan to tune his bike. Working on the bike at a later date I noticed he had engraved a casing with his initials. He didn’t mention he’d done it and i just thought of it as a kind of hidden autograph.
All NS engines have it, so I guess it is a factory matching thing. Never look on a blade as you don’t usually have the engine out unlike a stroker
That's interesting. I guess my mental image of the factory is of uber-high-tech process and gizmos... couldn't imagine them resorting to writing on the engine with a white pen... even way back in the dark ages of 2007, that seems kind of primitive! So has anyone ever seen similar writing on a similar aged blade engine?
It will likely be to do with when the cases are line bored, they need to be kept together as a set. I guess the marker used by the chap on the line does the job just fine. The VF750 had issues where Honda thought machining the cam bearers separately would be fine. It wasn’t and contributed to the chocolate cam debacle
Not on an engine but I’ve seen images of where Tadeo Baba wrote inside the fairings of FireBlades apparently he was quite renowned for this
Yes I have it on my RR7, it is etched on ,,,,,one number , two letters, then two numbers below . I wonder if the two numbers below are the week of build
