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Pinasco crankcases for Vespa T5

Pinasco has just informed us that on Thursday we will receive the new crankcases for Vespa T5.

The crankcases for the rare Vespa T5 were not easy to find and now we are pleased to have spare parts for Vespa T5 back in stock.

Reed valve and rotary valve crankcases for Vespa T5

As for the PX crankcases, also for Vespa T5 Pinasco offers two types of crankcase:

The price of the T5 crankcases will be slightly higher than that of the crankcases of the PX version. Further technical details will be available as soon as the crankcases will be in stock and we’ll keep you updated on our blog page.

Fitting T5 engine

For a perfect fitting of the engine we suggest you to use this overhaul kit: engine overhaul kit for Vespa 125T5

Motorrevisions-Set -OEM QUALITÄT- Vespa T5 125cc Artikelnr. 3330409

For further information about a suitable exhaust please click here: Vespa T5 exhaust bigbox-vespa-t5-bgm1012tr4

First pictures of T5 crankcases

Here some pictures which Pinasco provided us. Crankcases are expected to be delivered with all fixed studs and suitable silent buffers for the engine mounting and shock absorber mount.

 

Vespa Wideframe Tuning

Vespa Wideframe models are more popular than ever.

There are not only refined new spare parts on the market, but also development in performance increase.
Existing cast iron cylinders have been refined to wring a little more performance out of them with a rather high input of work.

New Pinasco cylinder

Pinasco will soon offer a new aluminium cylinder with 160cc for the old Vespa engines with 3 studs.

Our loyal customer Andreas Nagy has always been a good friend of this slightly particular Vespa model. He puts a lot of effort in increasing performance of the Wideframes and closely cooperates with Pinasco.

He visited us on our dynamometer with a prototype of the 160cc V2 cylinder. Caliper Bracket 007

Secret prototype of the new Vespa cylinder

Caliper Bracket 009

We would have liked to take an even closer look on the 160 Pinasco.
Sadly the prototype of this cylinder remained hidden under the cylinder covering.Caliper Bracket 006

Vespa Wideframe racing cylinder

Andreas and we have tested some exhausts on our Scooter Center P4 dynamometer. For example a BGM PRO BigBox Touring exhaust for PX models, whose suspension we have modified to make it fit a Wideframe.

Leistungsdiagramm Prüfstand Pinasco BBT Vespa Wideframe

Performance characteristic dynamometer Pinasco Vespa Wideframe cylinder prototype

10HP and 100 km/h

Sure: a Malossi MHR reaches more than 35HP almost easily on a PX. Compared to this, the 10 horses of a Pinasco racing cylinder won’t take anyone’s breath away. But, please, don’t forget the original “performance” of Wideframes! Original 5HP would have a top speed of about 70km/h on a plain track.

With now 10HP on the 8 inch small rear wheel and a corresponding primary reduction, you may expect more than 100km/h. Just like for an original PX200 for instance.

We are looking forward to the potential of the Pinasco cylinder.

You will of course be kept up to date: here in the Scooter Center Blog!

 

New gaskets for Vespa tuning engines

We now offer a great alternative to paper gaskets for tuning kits (Polini, Malossi, Quattrini, Pinasco, Parmakit). New highend lasercut gaskets:

  • in a set with 3 different strengths
  • perfect fit
  • possibility to customize
  • made of extremely stable Abil® N sealing material by Elring.

As perfect replacement of the original gaskets we continue to recommend BGM PRO silicon gaskets for Vespa and Lambretta.

Cylinder base gaskets in various strengths

Zylinderfuss-Dichtung für Vespa

Our product range includes cylinder base gasket sets by “Der Dichter” for any common Vespa cylinder. The supplied gasket set includes a gasket in three different strengths:

  • 0.25mm
  • 0.50mm
  • 0.75mm

Perfect to precisely adjust the cylinder trigger delay angle and/or the squish gap. You can buy the gasket sets in the Scooter Center Shop.

Gaskets for ported and welded cylinders

You have ported your cylinder and maybe even welded the casing? These still are the right gaskets for you:

All gaskets have a surplus of material compared to the original gaskets, which leaves you the choice for customizing:

Gasket for casing by Pinasco

We now offer gasket sets and individual gaskets for Pinasco casings:
These are made of Abil® N, a material which is of higher quality than the Pinasco version – Pinasco ‘only’ supplies brown paper.

gasket 3331850

Gasket set for cylinders by Quattrini

We are now able to deliver high quality gaskets for the Quattrini M200 cylinder at a fair price: gasket quattrini

Gaskets made of Abil® N

Abil® N is based on cellulose fibres bound to NBR.

Abil® N is primarily used to block hot and cold oil, fat, fuel and coolant with corrosion blocker. Usually used in control casing, gearbox, valve cover, oil pan,

hydraulic and pneumatic systems, chemical devices, pumps and compressors.

Spec sheet: pdf-logo DOWNLOAD

 

Easy to use

We recommend to install the gaskets dry or if need be with a little bit of grease on both sides.

gasket sets 1

All gaskets are laser cut and therefore an accurate fit.
Abil® N is based on cellulose fibres bound to NBR.

 

Shock absorber for wideframe Vespa

When it comes to Vespa, Pinasco increases work on older Vespas like Faro Basso, Struzzo, GS3…

The rear shock absorber for wideframe Vespa models is their great new product.

Rear shock absorber -PINASCO- Vespa Wideframe 1953-57, Vespa VM1, VM2, VN1, VN2, VB1, VL1, VL2, VL3, GS150

The Pinasco shock absorber fits those wideframe Vespa models, which do not have spring and absorber mounted individually in the rear shock absorber, without the need for further work on lower or upper shock mounts.

Pinasco PN 25441009

You may adjust spring preload and adapt the shock absorber to your individual preferences or varying load conditions.

The shock absorber is made in Italy and available in plain black. This makes the shock absorber fit discreetly in the general looks of a classic Vespa.

The two lock nuts only come to your attention on a second glance.

When exchanging the shock absorber you should also take a look at the upper silent rubber.

The Pinasco shock absorber fits the following wideframe models:

  • 125 (VM1T)
  • 125 (VM2T)
  • 125 (VN1T)
  • 125 (VN2T)
  • 150 (VB1T)
  • 150 (VL1T)
  • 150 (VL2T)
  • 150 GS (VS1T)
  • 150 GS (VS2T)
  • 150 GS (VS3T) GS3
  • 150 GS (VS4T) GS3
  • 150 GS (VS51T) GS3

 

Pinasco Vespa tube tubeless

Tubeless Vespa rims

For some time you can now find more examples of Vespa rims for tubeless tyres on the market. Pinasco Vespa Tube Tubeless

Pinasco alloy rim for Vespa

Pinasco is now offering a version including laboratory report by TüV.

However, the report is no guarantee for the e-pass remaining valid. So please check with the registration office responsible for restrictions on admission.

Felge Pinasco KBA 264

Which are the advantages of tubeless tyres?

  • in case you damaged the tread, air can only escape slowly. The tyre remains solid for a longer period of time.
  • no tube, which could burst or be jammed while assembling.
  • in case the tread punches on the rim, there is no tube that might be damaged.
  • if there is an increase in stress on your tyre or low pressure making the tyre move on the rim, the air valve won’t rip off.
  • no tube that might ream by the tyre

 

VESPA ALOY RIM
  • Split rim
  • O-ring to seal the two halves of the rim
  • Set of screws to link the two halves of the rim
  • Air valve
  • Nuts with flansh to fasten the rim to the brake drum
  • How to install
  • Laboratory report by TüV

 

Split rim – easy assembly

So far, all rims for tubeless tyres on the market have been one-piece rims, as for cars or motorbikes.
For classic scooters however, necessary brake drums have limited the design of rims immensely.
This limitation meant that mounting tyres on a one-piece rim was hard work and in some cases you even had to damage the tyre.

Split rims have always been a strong selling point of Vespas, because this led to quick mountings of tyres.

For mounting tyres on a one-piece rim, you need suitable equipment, which you will only find in a garage. There is no way to do it at the side of the road.

Pinasco dealt with this deficiency and finally launched a tubeless split rim onto the market, which rejuvenates the advantages of a quick change of tyres.

We took a closer look at the new Pinasco rim for you.

Delivered with

  • Split rim
  • O-ring to seal the two halves of the rim
  • Set of screws to link the two halves of the rim
  • Air valve
  • Nuts with flansh to fasten the rim to the brake drum
  • How to install
  • Laboratory report by TüV

 

Felge Pinasco KBA 254

Colours Vespa alloy rims

Pinasco offers a traditional range of colours. You can buy rims in black, polished alloy and traditionally in silver.

Pinasco Rim 001

Wheel rim -PINASCO, V2.0, tubeless 2.10-10 alloy, split rims- Vespa (type PX) – silver

Wheel rim -PINASCO, V2.0, tubeless 2.10-10 alloy, split rims- Vespa (type PX) – black

Wheel rim -PINASCO, V2.0, tubeless 2.10-10 alloy, split rims- Vespa (type PX) – alloy polished

Assembling the Vespa rim

First step should be to assemble the air valve. It’s easily done with the help of tyre mounting paste.

Secondly you should prepare the wider half of the rim with tyre mounting paste and put on the tyre, starting at the valve.

Please note: your tyre may have a profile that is bound to a running direction. This may vary for front and rear tyres.

Felge Pinasco KBA 294

If the tyre is well placed, the o-ring will find its way to the groove.

Felge Pinasco KBA 262

Once the o-ring is well placed, you may put on the second half of the rim.

Now, both halves have to be linked with 10 screws. Pinasco sets a maximum torque of 18Nm.

Nuts are interlocked in the larger half of the rim. The head of the allen screw is being secured with a schnorr washer, so that it won’t open without someone’s ado.

Felge Pinasco KBA 260

Fastened by 10 screws, you can now inflate the tyre to a maximum of 1.8bar. You used mounting paste, but the tyre won’t lie nicely in the rim base? If the entire wheel is fastened to the brake drum you may fit the tyre by inflating to a maximum of 3bar. Without the five additional fixation points of the brake drum, it might happen that the two halves of the rim spread, causing pressure to escape. After fastening to the brake drum, this won’t happen and pressure is kept reliably.

Pinasco recommends nuts with flansh to fasten the rim to the brake drum. When using snap rings for steel rims, the rim was being damaged when unfastening the screws. This won’t happen here.

Trace offset

Due to their design, there is trace offset with some one-piece tubeless rims. Due to the two-piece design of the rim, Pinasco managed to stick to the original rim offset.

Spare wheel

Due to its design and with a small trick you may fasten the Pinasco rim as spare wheel to your PX. You adapt the bracket for the spare wheel with spacer nuts in a way, that you fasten the wheel “upside down” – valve facing side panel.
This is an example of a LML frame. Having adapted the bracket also makes it easier to get to the valve of a standard wheel.

LML Rahmen

Which wheels fit?

As mentioned before, all common wheels of the sizes 90/90-10, 3.00-10 and 3.50-10 fit the Pinasco rim.
In case of one-piece rims it usually used to be luck to find a wheel that wouldn’t be damaged during assembly.
You should still pay attention to one small but crucial detail when buying wheels. Your new tyre should have the important “TL” or “tubeless” label.
A tyre labelled “TT”, meaning tube type, is not necessarily gas-proof.
So please only use “TL” labelled tyres with your tubeless rim.

 

Felge Pinasco KBA 302

You will find further information on your new tyres in our online manual and on Vespa-Reifen.de

Disc brake

The Pinasco rim also fits vehicles with disc brake. However, you should check clearance. We installed a PM brake caliper for test reasons. But sadly it didn’t fit the Pinasco rim. Standard brake calipers by Grimeca, LML und HengTong (Piaggio) fit the radius of the Pinasco rim without problems.

In case of damage to your tyres, you should have the following with you

Your Pinasco rim is fastened by allen screws. Should you get embarrassed on the way and need to unfasten your rim, you should have a fitting allen key on board. The key set by Toptul includes all common sizes from 1.5mm – 10mm and the handy box makes it easy to transport the allen keys in the glove compartment without causing noise.

Toptul Inbus

We recommend a repair set for tubeless tyres, so that you are able to continue your journey even without a spare wheel.

BGM8803

 

After removing the air valve you could even install a tube to the Pinasco rim.

VESPA ALOY RIM
  • Split rim
  • O-ring to seal the two halves of the rim
  • Set of screws to link the two halves of the rim
  • Air valve
  • Nuts with flansh to fasten the rim to the brake drum
  • How to install
  • Laboratory report by TüV

 

Pinasco engine casings for Vespa now available

Pinasco Vespa Motor

Vespa engine blocks

Now you can buy the new reinforced Pinasco engine casings.

Available as rotary valve version (Master) and as reed valve version (Slave) for

– Vespa PX 125-150
– Vespa PX 200

engine casing pinasco

PINASCO engine casings Master / Slave for Vespa Largeframe

Improvements

Both versions feature the same reasonable improvements:

  • MATERIAL
    High quality die cast aluminium with a fine surface finish
  • SEALING SURFACES
    Very precisely milled sealing surfaces
  • STRONGER
    Reinforcement ribs near the main shaft bearing on the shifter peg side and the rear shock mounting plate
  • MASSIVE
    Significantly more material used at the cylindre jug barrel’s sealing surface and at the caburetor inlet
  • BEARINGS
    The crankshaft bearing on the alternator side is a large cylindrical roller bearing (NU205 25x52x15mm)
  • OIL SEAL
    The housings are intended for being equipped with a metal oil seal (clutch side). Please use the type for the 200cc versions with a brown sealing lip.
  • LUBRICATION
    Double lubrication hole for the alternator bearing.
  • FIT
    Two additional dowel bushes = crankshafts with an overlong hub do not require the centering edge of the alternator side. Dowel bushes dimensions OØ=9,95mm, IØ=8,40mm, h=13,80mm
  • RUBBER WASHERS
    The included silent rubber washers are stiffer and give the engine a better positioning in the frame
  • NUMBER
    The engine casings do not have an impressed number or prefix on them
  • OIL HOLE
    No oil drain hole for transmission oil = There no longer is a superfluous oil drain hole that shows whether the oil seal on the inside is damaged*.

*We recommend using an encapsulated bearing and an exterior oil seal with a correponding brake drum.

Buy Pinasco engine casing here

ROTARY VALVE VERSION SPECIAL FEATURES

  • Extra-large sealing surface across both engine block halves, fits all intake manifolds
  • Can be used as a 1:1 replacement for the standard engine casing
  • The 125-150cc version features the same crankshaft housing as the 200cc models and inevitably requires a PX200 crankshaft. The rotary valve’s width was adapted to the dimension of the 200cc models. The narrower gasket of a 125cc crankshaft will not seal the surface here.

REED VALVE VERSION SPECIAL FEATURES

  • Centered full surface reed valve intake
  • Comes with a reed valve intakte manifold, comes with a reed valve in a RD350 format (distance holes 58x48mm)
  • Intake rubber can be turned by 360°, carburetor connecting size Ø=34mm
  • Rubber washer fits Keihin PWK28, Mikuni TMX27/30, Dell’Orto PHBH28/30, VHS24-30
  • No moulded shaft for the oil pump control
  • No hole for an oil pump drive shaft

The dowel bush for the auxiliary shaft that is included needs to be inserted. The casings are meant to be used with an electric starter motor. Therefore, please use the flywheel cover for models with an electric starter motor. For those without electric starter motor, simply cover the hole in the casing with our proper tin panel (7671454). Should you be using other transmission components than the ones of the PX 125cc models, please check whether the auxiliary shaft is compatible and modify it if necessary.
Please apply a high strength locking agent to all stud bolts. The cylinder stud bolts are not oversized on one side as is customary with Piaggio. Therefore, also glue in the Pinasco cylinder stud bolts that come with the delivery. Please make sure that when screwing in the cylinder stud bolts, any oil pump cog wheel that may be mounted can move freely. We recommend cutting all of the threads again and cleaning them out with compressed air.

ASSEMBLY NOTE
The crankshaft bearing NU205 on the alternator side does not fit flush with the edges of the engine casing.
It sticks out about 1mm toward the crankshaft.

SCOPE OF DELIVERY

  • ROTARY VALVE
    • All stud bolts
    • Silent rubbers + washers for the silent rubbers
    • Casing gaskets
    • Auxiliary shaft bushing
  • REED VALVE
    • As above, in addition comes with:
    • Intake manifold including the reed valve, intake rubber washer, gasket and small components
    • NOTE: Bolts for attaching the intake manifold on the engine block are not included (see: accessories)
Buy Pinasco engine casing here