Royal Enfield Classic 350 - Fitting the Hitchcocks Performance Camshaft
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- Опубліковано 29 сер 2024
- We fit the Hitchcocks Motorcycles Performance Camshaft to the Royal Enfield Classic 350,
This film hopefully will be useful to anyone planning to fit the Performance Camshaft themselves, and it also covers refitting the Right Hand Crankcase which did not go back on at first! hence a previous film and I would like to thank everyone who got in touch with help,
There are already another 2 films on UA-cam fitting the Camshaft, the original film by Hitchcocks Motorcycle, here is the link;
• Hitchcocks performance...
And easily the best and imformative film by Tiger Ness, link;
• Royal Enfield Classic ...
And the person to first bring to light the refitting of the RH clutch casing is Glyn Owen around 28 mins on his film, Link;
• Part 13 - Engine Pain...
Glyn was right some folk will scratch their heads at refitting that casing! I knew I did!
Oh lastly I did not film the 12,000 mile service as previously filmed the 6000 mile service which is the same, so here are links to that service. Part 1
• 6000 Mile DIY Service...
And Part 2
• 6000 Mile DIY Service;...
Cheers Bruce
ZOOM ZOOM Nicely done ! Looking forward to your result video. 😎 🥃
Coming soon Lance, be on this Friday 9am UK time 🥃😁👍
That took a bit of doing and focus. Well Done.
Thank you dezmond 😁 the cam fitting was actually ok it was all the other faff esp the RH clutch casing that took the time to do but we did it! 😜😁👍👍
Cheers Bruce
Love your workshop, it’s an Alladins cave of wonder!
Thank you, the best Man cave i have had yet! 😜👍👍👍
I’ve now watched Hitchcock’s, Ian’s and your cam installation, along with Glyn’s clutch cover, got a new little torque wrench and all the bits, ready to join the party 😊.
That final scene of you riding down the lane made me smile. Well done, another masterpiece video. Looking forward to plenty of grins in the next one!
Thank you sidweazel 😁👍 the bike is now preforming as Royal Enfield should have made it for our now no EC Country! 😁👍👍👍
Cheers Bruce
Easy when you know how! Thanks for the mention! To be fair, I wouldn’t have known if Glyn hadn’t made his videos!
You both saved the day! 😁👍👍👍
Hi Bruce
I’m very bad, something I didn’t tell anyone. I also had a little trouble fitting my clutch cover, figured it out in about 10 minutes thought 🤣
Hope you’re enjoying the extra performance.
Thanks for mentioning my channel 👍
TN
Hi Ian, real happy with the bike now! 😁👍 better now for local hill roads, tour film of this job was my inspiration to attempt this myself so a big thank you to you 😁👍👍👍
Oh that clutch cover though had me stumped! 🧐🤣🤣🤣
Did anyone else fast forward to the "putting on the clutch cover???"🤣 Nice job though, Bruce!! when I saw the cover going on, I wanted to shout "MCAULISH!!!""
I wanted to shout THANK F### Phil! 🤣🤣😁😁
Great film Bruce!! That's really helpful to me, I'm fitting my cam this week and I hadn't thought about the camchain direction tension, will have to watch out for that. I'm terrible at dropping things too so will have to carefully count all the bits or I'll be in shtuck. It sounds really good, and revvy, can't wait to see the ride film, do they recommend a running in period? Yours and Tigerness' films are so good I'll have to think of a unique angle for mine, I'm sure something will happen 👍Glad it all worked out for you
Hi Glyn, just stuff a rag in under the cam in the timing chain and it should be safe from dropping anything inside 😜👍
Three things I take away from this one Bruce...#1 what a great bunch of folk own these bikes. #2 that euphoric feeling when you finally solve a problem that was making your head hurt. #3 that final clip of you ripping down the road , giving it the berries! You simply can't do that on a 140 bhp "naughty boy" bike, and that's why these Classic 350's are such brilliant fun. 😊
📯🔊📯🔊 breaking news !!! Good News !!! Bruce ,thank you 😊✌
You are very welcome 😁👍👍👍
Great tutorial, thank you, definitely a mod I will do at some stage. 👍
Hope this film is of help and encourages folk to do the Cam swap themselves 😁👍
Cheers Bruce
it sounds pretty healthy with the pipe and the cam
It sounds and now rides way better! 😁👍
Really enjoyed this one, Bruce. The fly by will have everyone thinking should I 😊
More film flying about on Friday morning! 😁👍
Well done Bruce.👍I watched the video with great interest and will save it in my library. It's good that people come forward to help when a job gets a little tricky. Like minded people and Royal Enfield community spirit.👍looking forward to your next video when you get the bike on the road and give it some beans 😊. Cheers Carl.
Glad you enjoyed it Carl 👍
Next film loaded this affy and be live Friday morning 9am 😜😁👍👍
Cheers Bruce
I did the same with my Hunter 350 , DNA air filter , Hitchcock Kent camshaft , got rid of the catalytic converter , and put a Enfield precicion free flow silencer on from Hitchcock ( plus baffle! , work better! and does not make the neighbors angry 😇. The bike runs much better , much quicker if needed for overtaking ( safer ) , sounds better , top speed plus minus 130 km and use a little bit more fuel but that also depens how you ride it , . 😁 . these changes are totally worth it , i love my Hunter 350 this bike is fun fun fun . and i love my Interceptor 650 too this bike is fun fun and faster ,lol ... Hello from Australia !!!👍 ( good video mate !)
Glad you enjoyed the film!, the hunter is a cracking bike and cheaper than the Classic too!
The cam and other mods are so worth it!
Did you also replace the spark plugs with iridium ones
How does it change the NVH levels?
Got one on order. Plus decat and filter. Great video will come in handy when I do mine
Thanks 😁thats 3 films now on diy Cam fitting so hopefully folk get all the info needed from the 3 films so far that helps them 😁👍
Cheers Bruce
@@Coastriderscotland certainly easy to follow and will be watching it when I do mine interesting bit about the tappets and locking tool at end of your video will make sure they seat properley
Cheers jase
Yip, definitely remember xl camshafts gouging lumps out of the cylinder head journals.
Aye expensive repair back in the day Ped! 😂👍
Helpful video Bruce, and it sounded the business on that fly past! 👌
Thanks Mel, the bike sounds great now on full song!
Ride film is scheduled for Friday 9am! 😁👍
@@Coastriderscotland ah good stuff 👌
Great video Bruce. Glad you got there in the end. You did very well in showing the process whilst mainly keeping your hands out the way.
Thank you Simon, its quite hard to film while concentrating what your doing and esp when having an engine opened up and for once i was very serious! 🤣🤣🤣😁👍
@@Coastriderscotland They should include a motorcycle maintenance video category in the BAFTAs🤗. Yude be up there in the nominations.
@@simonchilli2088 Thanks Simon 😁👍
Excellent job, she sounds marvellous 👍
Thanks for listening! 😁👍
The engine just sounds better tuned now Mark 😁👍👍
Just what we've been waiting for. A really good instructional video with a lot of tips, e.g. don't drop the bolt in the engine! When I do mine I may fill the gap with a bit of bubble wrap, as I'm quite clumsy.
Glad it helped bobbod, thats a good idea with bubble wrap! Im always fumbling and dropping things too! 🤣😁
Every problem teaches us a new lesson 😊
So true! 😜👍
Job well done Bruce. Flyby sounded excellent.
Thanks Phil 😁
Film on Friday morning testing the bike out 😁👍
Cheers Bruce
A good clear video Bruce, I did mine last year and haven’t regretted it at all. One thing you didn’t mention is that the four rocker retaining bolts need to be replaced with new bolts (Hitchcocks have them in stock) as they are single use only. If you put the old ones back in they can work loose.
Hi Tim, oops missed that about the rocker bolts! I will get some ordered 😁👍
Cheers Bruce
Thanks Bruce, that again was a good informative vid, I like your humour, so next time time lamps out and quarter mile markers, then some timed trails😂, love it and thank you to all
Bay Bimbler
Thanks ted, its not the easiest thing to film doing maintenance films without someone holding the camera, so good if folk find the film useful to do this themselves 😁👍
Cheers Bruce
Good work...
Thanks David 😁👍
Thanks David 😁👍
Thanks
Thank you Carl! Very generous! It will go in the tank this week! 😁👍👍👍
Cheers Bruce
Great video, doing my Hunter soon hope everything goes well, a little scared now on the clutch cover but God is my side.
You can do it! It is just a case of being patient and it seems to go straight on /off or need a bit moving so you will be ok 👍😁
Thanks I enjoyed the video very much I've got the Hunter 350 I ll be doing the same soon many thanks
I eagerly await your review of the new cam.🙂
Hi it is uploaded for this Friday at 9am 👍👍
Cheers Bruce
Sounds the business now Bruce 👍. Well explained on "how to".
Glad I could help out with the torque wrench. 😁
Thanks Colin, I readjusted the tappets next day and real quiet now, it hits the rev limiter in 1,2,3 real easy! 🤣
Thanks again for the loan of the torque wrench 😁👍
That revvyness is intoxicating isn’t it?
Oh its addictive!
Ride film is live this Friday 9am 😁👍👍👍
When I painted the front tip of my front mudguard white on my signals marsh grey back in March 2023, I seem to have started a trend 🤣🤣
Ha it was indeed your bike i first saw painted at front like the WW2 bikes! 😁👍👍👍
Cheers Bruce
Just another one. I'm happy with the seventy-ish mile per hour limit on my Classic. However I quite often struggle to get up to that, at lease on the few roads that warrant 60 -70. It's true that I have quite a large lard content and maybe that's the main problem. But it would be good the know how the new cam performs at the upper end.
It will deft be better at what you want in top gear, like yourself happy with the top speed as it wont blow up with the rev and top speed limiter!
It pulls better on hills now as you will see in the next film on Friday 😁👍👍
@@CoastriderscotlandThanks for the reply. Looking forward to Friday!
Glad to see you sorted the cover out, on your video at 26 minutes 33 seconds it looks like the lower forkleg is bent back, noticed there's damage on your crash bars on that side, or is it an optical illusion,
The crash bar is indeed bent - fork is ok, when i caught it on a huge rock blocking a wide path to a ruin a castle i wanted to nip to for pics! 🤣👍
@@Coastriderscotland glad things are OK 👍
Really appreciate your video.. thank you!
Glad it was helpful! 👍😁
Cheers Bruce
great vid
Thank you 😁
Great video, but most of all I would like to see how you released the fuel tank, its got hoses and plugs all over the place underneath. Also what hp and torque increase do Hitchcocks claim ?
Hi i have done the tank removal in several maintenance films, sesrch through my Classic 350 Playlist fir service films,
The first few times you remove them it seems hard until the fuel connector pipe has been disconnected/re connected a few times,
Cheers Bruce
Hello Bruce, thinking of installing the cam in my 350 classic, just wondered is it worth it?
What do you reckon, does it make that much difference, or is it an expensive add-on for little improvement?
Would appreciate your thoughts.
Thanks
Hi, the cam question and other mods comes up often regarding if worth doing?,
I think if you can afford more than one bike and/or own a bigger faster bike then i would leave it stock and just enjoy the bike as even stock its fantastic 👍 what i like is the noise of my bike now, and the cam adds a different note,
But i guess you have to decide how much you want to spend on your bike, and wether your keeping it long term as i planned from first day i rode it, so i have not really answered your question and really only you can decide,
It has more mid range now but your still stuck with the 73ish mph top speed
How did you get rid of the catalytic converter on the hunter, i didn't know anyone made a decat pipe for the hunter
Hi it is a Classic 350 i own, I’m sure there will be a company that will make a exhaust without a Cat soon as they have been out a while now 👍cheers Bruce
Hi, I was asking Richard 2951960 who said he got rid of his cat on the hunter, I've not seen one available for the hunter upto now, cheers Dave
You reckon it's worth it then? If so, I think I'll wait until my warranty runs out. 👍
Hi Jez its deft worth it over any other mod 😁👍
At the 5:53 mark, he says the last thing you want to do is drop the bolts into the engine. I tried this as the final step and I don't recommend it. He gave bad advice here. The last step of dropping the bolts into the engine should be eliminated from the procedure.
Aye best avoided! 🤣😁👍👍
ok but performance ? how mucht more ? from o tot 60 mph 3 sec les ?
Hi danny, if you go to Tiger Ness channel he has done comparison times etc 👍😁
Cheers Bruce
ok thanks grts danny@@Coastriderscotland
Great video mate! :) Are you happy with performance now? :)
Yes I am! Real happy and so much better for the local hills inland here now!
Thanks for watching and nice you enjoyed it 😁👍
Cheers Bruce
@@Coastriderscotland Thanks mate! For now my Classic 350 has only DNA filter as an upgrade. I follow you channel from several accounts, so I love what you do! Cheers!
Happy days.
Yeah its great now! 😁👍👍