I want a 900 Maxim -- Can it be done???

My main ride was the 900, until I got smitten by the 750 Max. Never expecting to have two collectable XJ's in the stable; I stock-piled spare parts to keep the 900 running strong until the Sun burns out.

Included in the 900 parts I have, down in my garage-shop ... is a 900 engine that I'm overhauling a little bit at a time. The head's done. The holes are honed-out nice. Once I get the rings ... this engine is going to haunt me.

So, lets face the demons -- right now!

Will the 900 engine be a straight bolt-up if I want to stick it in the Max during the Hot Stove, freezin'-ass-cold, New England Winter.

The 900 shares lower ends with the 750. I just need to know if the assembled 900 engine will have the "Head Room" to get in there and give the Max a hundred ponies?

Anybody tried this? Anybody know somebody that did? Boy, can you imagine having that screaming 900 engine in the Max? OMG!!

The 900 engine flies through the power band and heads for the far end of the tach ... so fast ... that I had to put a Dyna Rev-limiter on my Big Seca or risk having my arms pulled out of their sockets.

When you are in "Cruise Mode" with that 900 engine ... you are doing 85 to 90 ... with enough black, left on the tach, to park an 18-wheeler!

The "All-looks and NO performance" front fairing on the Seca 900 can't figure-out which way is straight when you give her the whip and start approaching a buck-twenty!

The Max was as steady as a pile of cinder blocks stacked on a pool table when it got wound-out into three-figure-land!

I want to stick that 900 in my Max.

Think it will go???

 

It will fit in the Turbo, which looks to have a lot less room than a Maxim.

 

Hi Rick

Been thinking ´bout doing the same with my non-X (900´s/-engines are sold fairly cheap in Germany)

Been done with 900F engine in a 700 (non-X) Maxim (not sure though, if you have to raise the tank a little..) (see pic - it´s from a sale ad from a dealer; been trying to track the PO but no luck so far)

But - doesn´t the "X" have around 90HP (as opposed to the 98 in the 900)? Do you think the 900 is so superior to the "X"? (if so, I must surely try switcing mine someday... 8)

 

And rushing with the pic:

 

Got in touch with the owner and got a couple of more pics. he´s complaining a bit about the vibrations at 200 km/h... :?