New to Yamaha Pipe Class- Questions

Travis Miller

I will be moving from Supercan to Pipe this year and unsure what the best clutch/pipe set up is. I run at Circleville Raceway which is a 7/10ths mile track. Any insight into the difference between clutch brands and whether to go with a dry or wet clutch would be appreciated.
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Frankie Schaffier · Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2013 10:30 am Post subject:

RLV L2 or one of the older RLV series pipes (A, G, etc) with the same power range. I saw quite a few RLV Yam pipes at the Springfield swap meet for under $50.

3-disk wet clutch, L&T is probably your best bet. Also quite a few used wet clutches out there from when guys went from wet to dry in the can class.
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Greg Wright · Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2013 11:35 am Post subject:

Are you looking at old style open pipe or the new WKA spec pipe for Yamaha Sr,?
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Frankie Schaffier · Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2013 12:02 pm Post subject:

Howdy Greg,

Pretty sure it's the old verison he after. Circleville has an open pipe class, Yam pipe, KPV 3 pipe and KPV 4... If I remember correct. At times they have a decient turn out for the class, pretty cool.
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Travis Miller · Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2013 12:24 pm Post subject:

Old style pipe - L2.
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Greg Wright · Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2013 2:45 pm Post subject:

TJ Koyen · Joined: 03 Oct 2004 Posts: 1420

We had good success using Tomar's big beefy dry clutch in pipe as well. It works good for a lighter class, not sure it would hold up to a heavier class though.
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Gordon Duax · Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 1:39 pm Post subject:

Find one of the Mayko pipes by Al Nunley.

I finally got in touch with Al a few years ago over on Bob's, and he was able to direct me to the guy who spun the cones, who had some left.
Even though I have a couple of the pipes, I ordered in 2 sets of the cones just to have for future projects.

Matthew Patterson · Joined: 25 Mar 2011 Posts: 37

Down here in NO, we're running KTs with L3 pipes in a Super Sportsman class. Usually on 40-60 second long courses, up to 70mph on the straights. We run against some F200s.

We've all been running different clutches (couple wet ones, Patiot 3-disc, Tomar TD-23). So far, the Tomar TD-23 has been working very well for us. I've got one that I've done 2 races (1 total hour racing per raceday) and 2 lapping days, for a total of about 4 hours total racing.

My stall is set at 9300rpm, and I've had less than .002 wear on it.

Curry Brown · Joined: 04 Feb 2013 Posts: 24

Im interested in a used yamaha pipe if anyone is looking to sell.

Thanks!

Walt Gifford · Posted: Sat Apr 06, 2013 8:50 pm Post subject:

Curry you've got a PM.

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