Furiously polished. No I didn't use Autosol! That might take around 4months of solid work!
Before and after.
Cloth wheel and soap, normal business.
Delays on my silencer shell, cause the guy was snowed up at home. No biggy.Now really running out of evening jobs.
Fitted the brake pad retaining pins and rattle plates.
Cleaned my front wheels and waxed them. Stuck some CV2 grease on the studs and torqued the nuts down to 68nm.
Got under it with a torch and really really looked hard to find any weaps or leaks and found none.
I have all the parts for the exhaust, bar the V-band clamp (out of stock).
The place made a hash of the pipe I had made, however with 2.25" removed from before the sill 90deg bend it will fit perfectly after some adjustments.
Silencer skin is off being TIG'ed, should get it back tomorrow I can assemble the silencer over the weekend and weld the pieces needing joining.
Sorted the crankcase breathers by running them into the filter backplate. No oil will come out anyway.
Totally complete bar the exhaust. Everything works fine, perfect, not a single snag.
Wanged this on to quiet it down :)
Bit more tuned and fettled. I have given the cams about 15mins @ 2250rpm.
Next run I will lower it to idle speed and tune the idle mixture. I then await an exhaust and I can see how it idles...Might have to play with the exhaust cam timing a bit, cause I like to see the results of stuff, it helps you learn and understand and gives you knowledge, I can get a handle on something I have never done before...? I set it to what it should be from the pipercams book, but the compression, exhaust, carbs make it no more than a guess really, the spec is not "normal". I doubt it will be hard to setup.
Engine sounds strong, very smooth and low vibration. Plenty of compression.
Circlip for the handbrake, shorten 4 of the tunnel bolts. Finito!
Went over just about everynut and screw in the cabin and engine bay tonite.
Made some clips to fix the wiring core down, made my own, why buy when you can make?! Just some strips of 0.5mm thick alloy bent around a socket with a hole drilled through the ends.
Changed the pump jets in the carbs to backfire versions. 0.38mm
Can't believe it, its done! (bar a couple of bolts here and there that need shortening)
Remaining jobs.
Make crankcase breather pipe, to link the two breather outlets on the engine together and fit an ITG breather filter on the end.
Weld V-Band clamp to manifold. Adjust and weld V-Band clamp to bent exhaust section after alignment (may take hours!). Get silencer outer TIG'ed. Cut off baffle tube from silencer end plates. Source and expand some more baffle tube to make one long baffle together with the existing one, ring weld this to the front end plate and weld two halves of baffle tube together.
Measure up and get a piece of 2.25" tube for the remaining exhaust section, expand one end to slip over bent section and the other end to 67.7mm to slip into the can...I'll reduce my costs by only using 1 v-band connection...
Bolt it all together. Make effort to base jet carbs if needed. Go for MOT.
If it had an exhaust I could drive it now. I could drive it now without an exhaust, but after 2.5years whats the rush.
It'll be mobile in the next few weeks. Then it need that roof doing...
Few last bits.
Incase you didn't hear it? it ran! Started first time! Atleast once I took the new starter apart and resoldered the joints, seemed to be ALOT of impedence? Crap slow turn over. But then the engine is "fresh".I ran the engine, for about 3mins in 30sec bursts...Video is the 2nd run.
It's not jetted, mapped and running RAW with no exhaust, bar the manifold and a 12" pipe attached and no ECU, stuck 10BTDC timing on EDIS. Also I had no main jets in so it dies with throttle.
I have rejetted, balanced and fiddled with the carbs since and run it again.
I also added the ECU and mapped that, sounded MUCH better! Pretty sweet actually.
I'll upload another video soon.
Dropped my exhaust pipe (drain pipe) off to a local place so they can screw that up for me? I haven't paid them so I will assess the job done on collection, I asked him "have you a mandrel, can you replicate this exactly in 2.25" stainless"...He seemed confident. So if it's crap, I'll grab my drain pipe and walk.
I finished the gearbox tunnel and bolted that in, also the engine bay valances are done.
Basically it'll be on the road once I establish if the exhaust section is any good, get some V-bands and do a few more preflight runs, plus finish the silencer plus get another pipe made up.
Few small jobs left, but nothing taxing.
No my life is NOT suddenly complete. The road is long and hard and still many miles to walk.
