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[alchall]

A nice little update for this week, the engine has been re-united with the gearbox.....

 

First up I had to fix a thread on the transfer case end as it had been stripped, so got myself a thread repair kit from eBay....

 

 

And new thread inserted, was very simple!

 

 

First job was I fitted the rear oil drain pipes and the exhaust header studs (these are OEM parts from the bike that come with copper plated nuts.....

 

 

Then gearbox fitted to the engine, not really a lot to say about this, gaskets, blue hylomar, new bolts etc. but it looks nice now it's together again!

 

 

 

[Northernpower]

It's a nice looking build. I've used the same thread repair kit, they're very good and easy to use as long as you make sure you drill the hole in the centre of the existing one and square to the face.

[alchall]

It's a nice looking build. I've used the same thread repair kit, they're very good and easy to use as long as you make sure you drill the hole in the centre of the existing one and square to the face.

Thanks, Im pleased with it so far, just hope it works when I finally get the car together!!

Thread repair kit does seem good, i was a bit nervous about making a worse situation but seemed to go well, used a bit of Loctite too so should be a good fix.

[g111mds]

Is it painting of the shell stage when the engine is together, or do you have some other steps first?

[72hump]

Looking very good buddy, getting to the fun bit of timing in the cams. Don't know what SC have told you what cam lift to set too, but John mentioned to me around 1mm, unless this has changed, but there's a lot of debate on that subject, depended of what torque or horsepower you want, me personally, i would prefer torque over Bhp, as I don't want to be reving the hell out it.

[1330RG]

Looking great. The blue does look great with the clean silver of the alloy.

[alchall]

Is it painting of the shell stage when the engine is together, or do you have some other steps first?

Plan is to build the engine, do a test install to work out what modifications I need to make to the engine bay and bonnet, it then goes off to paint, Ill start to build up subtframes while its away then I can get on with actually putting it all together.

[alchall]

Is it painting of the shell stage when the engine is together, or do you have some other steps first?

Plan is to build the engine, do a test install to work out what modifications I need to make to the engine bay and bonnet, it then goes off to paint, Ill start to build up subtframes while its away then I can get on with actually putting it all together.

[alchall]

Looking very good buddy, getting to the fun bit of timing in the cams. Don't know what SC have told you what cam lift to set too, but John mentioned to me around 1mm, unless this has changed, but there's a lot of debate on that subject, depended of what torque or horsepower you want, me personally, i would prefer torque over Bhp, as I don't want to be reving the hell out it.

Its like you read my mind, there seems to be quite a lot of different opinions on this subject, like you Im more interested in the torque curve, one of the big attractions to me for this conversion was being able to build a reasonably powerful engine whilst maintaining usable torque for use on the road, Ill be taking to John about it shotlly but I think 1mm probably fits the bill as far as I can tell.

[alchall]

Looking great. The blue does look great with the clean silver of the alloy.

I agree, really pleased I ended up with blue block and cam cover rather than black as Id originally planned...

[minimissions]

That looks stunning I cannot wait to see this in the car, this is like the dream engine for the van...

[72hump]

Looking very good buddy, getting to the fun bit of timing in the cams. Don't know what SC have told you what cam lift to set too, but John mentioned to me around 1mm, unless this has changed, but there's a lot of debate on that subject, depended of what torque or horsepower you want, me personally, i would prefer torque over Bhp, as I don't want to be reving the hell out it.

Its like you read my mind, there seems to be quite a lot of different opinions on this subject, like you Im more interested in the torque curve, one of the big attractions to me for this conversion was being able to build a reasonably powerful engine whilst maintaining usable torque for use on the road, Ill be taking to John about it shotlly but I think 1mm probably fits the bill as far as I can tell.

Spoke to John again at Minifair regarding the cam lift, and he was still saying to set them to 1mm lift, for a good torquey road engine, unless of course you want to rev the hell out off it!

[minisilverbullet]

 

 

Looking very good buddy, getting to the fun bit of timing in the cams. Don't know what SC have told you what cam lift to set too, but John mentioned to me around 1mm, unless this has changed, but there's a lot of debate on that subject, depended of what torque or horsepower you want, me personally, i would prefer torque over Bhp, as I don't want to be reving the hell out it.

Its like you read my mind, there seems to be quite a lot of different opinions on this subject, like you Im more interested in the torque curve, one of the big attractions to me for this conversion was being able to build a reasonably powerful engine whilst maintaining usable torque for use on the road, Ill be taking to John about it shotlly but I think 1mm probably fits the bill as far as I can tell.

Spoke to John again at Minifair regarding the cam lift, and he was still saying to set them to 1mm lift, for a good torquey road engine, unless of course you want to rev the hell out off it!

 

 

After messing around with with cam timing. My experience is:

 

I started with at 1mm, then 2.4mm and currently 1.7mm - the car did feel best at 1mm

 

The power/torque seems so much lower down in the rev range when set to 1mm. 

[almarsh132]

Looks good! I haven't been on the forum for a while, you may well beat me getting a sprite back on the road!

[alchall]

 

 

Looking very good buddy, getting to the fun bit of timing in the cams. Don't know what SC have told you what cam lift to set too, but John mentioned to me around 1mm, unless this has changed, but there's a lot of debate on that subject, depended of what torque or horsepower you want, me personally, i would prefer torque over Bhp, as I don't want to be reving the hell out it.

Its like you read my mind, there seems to be quite a lot of different opinions on this subject, like you Im more interested in the torque curve, one of the big attractions to me for this conversion was being able to build a reasonably powerful engine whilst maintaining usable torque for use on the road, Ill be taking to John about it shotlly but I think 1mm probably fits the bill as far as I can tell.

Spoke to John again at Minifair regarding the cam lift, and he was still saying to set them to 1mm lift, for a good torquey road engine, unless of course you want to rev the hell out off it!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Looking very good buddy, getting to the fun bit of timing in the cams. Don't know what SC have told you what cam lift to set too, but John mentioned to me around 1mm, unless this has changed, but there's a lot of debate on that subject, depended of what torque or horsepower you want, me personally, i would prefer torque over Bhp, as I don't want to be reving the hell out it.

Its like you read my mind, there seems to be quite a lot of different opinions on this subject, like you Im more interested in the torque curve, one of the big attractions to me for this conversion was being able to build a reasonably powerful engine whilst maintaining usable torque for use on the road, Ill be taking to John about it shotlly but I think 1mm probably fits the bill as far as I can tell.

Spoke to John again at Minifair regarding the cam lift, and he was still saying to set them to 1mm lift, for a good torquey road engine, unless of course you want to rev the hell out off it!

 

 

After messing around with with cam timing. My experience is:

 

I started with at 1mm, then 2.4mm and currently 1.7mm - the car did feel best at 1mm

 

The power/torque seems so much lower down in the rev range when set to 1mm. 

 

 

Thanks guys, that's really helpful, looks like I'll be going for 1mm, looks like a slightly tricky operation so better set aside a clear day for it