Wayde Turbotater Johnson has always been known as a GREAT engine guy. He has been porting and tuning two-strokes since the 1970s.
He KNOWS pipe mods and clutching.
He is the innovator of the reed valve system in the airbox of carbed two-stroke turbo sleds.
Over a decade ago, I posted on here about where to take my sled for some work on my PSI motor. I asked about PSI, SLP, Doug Ruth...etc etc. Many people suggested those...but the overwhelming majority said to take it to Wayde Johnson in Hazelton, ID. So I did. SMART MOVE.
He took the engine that Bruce Kalhammer (from PSI Performance) called a "full race ported" 1155cc twin that was supposed to run on 50% race gas engine and massaged it over. He reshaped the ports and cleaned it up a bunch so the fuel mixture went to the center of the piston instead of elsewhere.
Wayde said to dump the PSI pipes (which is where Bruce got his start in the 1970s and did quite well with them). Wayde made a pipe suggestion and helped find a set. Did a little clutch work and away we went. That engine came alive and ran like a scalded dog...NOT ON 50/50 RACE GAS, but with just ONE gallon of race gas to take the edge off.
Wayde did a fantastic job for me. I quickly learned to trust that other people's recommendations were RIGHT about him.
In 2009, I had Wayde build the clunker 2003 800 ves engine than I bought on the internet. He turned that think into a monster and it ran VERY well for 4 seasons for me until I sold it. And it's still running today as if it were brand new.
SO, Wayde is more honest than the day is long. He is a straight shooter and doesn't buy into hysteria or hype. He does what works and he does it because he's working from hands-on experience. He doesn't push things out to the limit, but makes them run REALLY well in spite of that.
Wayde has done porting and engine work for a lot of other bigger named companies. They sent their stuff to him and had him do it to their specs. He learned a lot about how he would do it different and built a library of his own specs. He did a lot of King Cat and M1000 port jobs that jpeople would swear there was more two it.
He'd gotten into partnering the 850/858 big bores from M2W a couple years ago, but now he's partnered with Stroker Customs in Colorado to make a 962 stroker big bore. Wayde is also making his own 910 big bore for the Pro and Axys engines.
Given Wayde's fantastic reputation and my own personal experience with him, I felt like I could go with his 910 big bore. I was one of his first 910 builds.
Back in December, I loaded up the sled and my son on a Friday night and headed for southern Idaho for "a fresh top-end"
.
I had the upper case half ported a couple weeks before that, so it was ready to "bolt on" when we got there.
Here is the build and ride report.....
He KNOWS pipe mods and clutching.
He is the innovator of the reed valve system in the airbox of carbed two-stroke turbo sleds.
Over a decade ago, I posted on here about where to take my sled for some work on my PSI motor. I asked about PSI, SLP, Doug Ruth...etc etc. Many people suggested those...but the overwhelming majority said to take it to Wayde Johnson in Hazelton, ID. So I did. SMART MOVE.
He took the engine that Bruce Kalhammer (from PSI Performance) called a "full race ported" 1155cc twin that was supposed to run on 50% race gas engine and massaged it over. He reshaped the ports and cleaned it up a bunch so the fuel mixture went to the center of the piston instead of elsewhere.
Wayde said to dump the PSI pipes (which is where Bruce got his start in the 1970s and did quite well with them). Wayde made a pipe suggestion and helped find a set. Did a little clutch work and away we went. That engine came alive and ran like a scalded dog...NOT ON 50/50 RACE GAS, but with just ONE gallon of race gas to take the edge off.
Wayde did a fantastic job for me. I quickly learned to trust that other people's recommendations were RIGHT about him.
In 2009, I had Wayde build the clunker 2003 800 ves engine than I bought on the internet. He turned that think into a monster and it ran VERY well for 4 seasons for me until I sold it. And it's still running today as if it were brand new.
SO, Wayde is more honest than the day is long. He is a straight shooter and doesn't buy into hysteria or hype. He does what works and he does it because he's working from hands-on experience. He doesn't push things out to the limit, but makes them run REALLY well in spite of that.
Wayde has done porting and engine work for a lot of other bigger named companies. They sent their stuff to him and had him do it to their specs. He learned a lot about how he would do it different and built a library of his own specs. He did a lot of King Cat and M1000 port jobs that jpeople would swear there was more two it.
He'd gotten into partnering the 850/858 big bores from M2W a couple years ago, but now he's partnered with Stroker Customs in Colorado to make a 962 stroker big bore. Wayde is also making his own 910 big bore for the Pro and Axys engines.
Given Wayde's fantastic reputation and my own personal experience with him, I felt like I could go with his 910 big bore. I was one of his first 910 builds.
Back in December, I loaded up the sled and my son on a Friday night and headed for southern Idaho for "a fresh top-end"
.I had the upper case half ported a couple weeks before that, so it was ready to "bolt on" when we got there.
Here is the build and ride report.....
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