Power to the People

yamanube

yamanube

This Is The Way
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7 Years ago, I started making porting templates to fill a gap that was left when Sport Port stopped making their templates.
Since then, I have sold literally hundreds of porting templates. I want to thank everyone who purchased them from me over the years and now I am going to my best to pay it back to the community.
I have decided that I do not have the time in my life to create, ship and support these templates and as such, I feel, the best move for me is to offer them free for anyone who is interested.
This PDF is exactly the same template I designed, drafted, tested and sold for the past 7 years. You can find all of the info and past discussions in that original post here.
Feel free to download the file, plot it off 1:1 (no scaling), cut it out and get to work.
 

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yamanube

yamanube

This Is The Way
Staff member
Location
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mikidymac said:
Thank you @yamanube!

Glad I had the chance to buy them and give you a little something for your hard work.
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Thank you, for real! I wasn't sure if anyone would even be interested in them at first and they totally took off. I really went back and forth on this decision (for the past 12 months). I didn't want it to seem like a slight to the people who did pay money for them but at the same time I didn't see much sense in just eliminating the option for people who want to do the work themselves. I sort of hinted to a couple people to see if I could get someone to take over making them but I had concerns about that too as it would have to be someone I could trust to make them reliably, ship them reliably and be able to offer some support to the consumer all while maintaining the $25 price point. Most of the sales result in 3-5 back and forth messages/emails for tips and tricks and other information on doing the work and without that, I don't see it as getting your money's worth.
I would like to keep supporting them in a way, I would really rather just do it on X-H2O in the form of threads that can be searched and recovered to maybe save some typing. I would also love it if people would share and tag it in social media just to see who is out there doing it and what they think.
Out of the hundreds I sold, I don't think I even had a dozen people send me pics of their work and maybe two dozen give me any feedback on how it went or how it runs.
 
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Storbeck

Location
Minnesota
I consider it worth it to pay a few bucks just to get them on the handy magnetic things. I've done maybe 5 motors with my set even kawasakis and stuff that it wasn't meant for I just measure out what I want the port height and width to be, mark a square and slide the template as needed up and down side to side to form the corners. It's probably making a really conservative port shape with bigger round radiuses on the corners than needed but that's okay with me.

I have a 781 that I've been using in a square nose then in my superfreak as kind of my "main" ski for a few years now that was ported with your template on the exhaust. I'm happy with how it runs but I've never really had a chance to compare it to one of the "big name" motors to see if it really is any good.
 
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Motoman399

Location
California
I bought your templates last summer (not at all upset you're offering them for free now, it was worth every penny!) and ported my 61x cylinder. Unfortunately that project got shelf'd. I did message you a few times an you gave me great information!I will post some pictures when I get some more time. Thank you for your contribution!

Oh and I would have paid more
 
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