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[roofless]

[alexcrosse]

Well, got my muffler today, seems good, alot of work to the exhaust tonite to get it in, had to shorten the back a bit and change the mounts but its in, also got another video. Runs ok, need the adjust the idle, and its running at about 12-13 AFR but tinkering with the initial fuel gain will sort that out best as i can. Only worry is, oil pressure is only at about 2-3 bar... hopefully once it runs a bit more itll sort itself out. only ran it for 30 seconds or so.

anyway! heres pics and a video for you chaps!



Cats been helping





Now this took a few starts because first: too rich, had to adjust fuel gain. Then the idle was out, so needed a bit of a screw on the throttle bodies, but just held in a little bit of throttle for the sake of the video.
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and no i wasnt revving it much, 2k max.

Edited by alexcrosse, 24 September 2009 - 07:32 PM.

[HARBER07]

Legend! Hard bit done now.

Though how come you're wearing trackies again? LOL

[alexcrosse]

comfort !!! lol

[HARBER07]

Yeah yeah

[mighty mini jack]

Ah man i can't even hear it and it sounds good!

Legend! Looks f'ing ACE!!

Need to fix my speakers pronto

[alexcrosse]

plug in some headphones =p

hopefully youll hear it in the flesh soon! aslong as this oil pressure thing is ok!

[mighty mini jack]

Well its not the speakers, just my comp doesn't want to play any sound.

Man, i can't wait!

[HARBER07]

Ah man yeah! Cant wait to see it in the flesh!! How long till shes road legal?

[alexcrosse]

erm... works mad at the moment, so a few weeks i think combes looking bleak

aslong as the engines all ok, and i can get the map good for running it in, run a 14 AFR or something, all ive got to do is the pedal box plumbing...

so lets wait and see =p

[HARBER07]

Haha quality Gonna be good!

[mintom]

Read through the whole topic so far last night. Amazed at the progression of engine boredom & inspiration (what sort of time period was that over?) & the full engine rebuild pictures of your current one, haven't seen many of full engine rebuilds so far. Enjoy it when it's on the road!

[alexcrosse]

the 1430 went in... one and a half years ago? something like that.

nice to hear you read through it and enjoyed it mate i wrote this thread for 3 reason, for people to read and enjoy, for me to refer to, and for people to help me out with suggestions, and its working great so far!

Cheers!

Al

[alexcrosse]

woo! 45-50psi oil pressure at idle. Just needed to clean out the pressure relief valve! So its looking better. Will probably fall down to 35-40psi when hot, so thats still ok.

Just need to sort out the pedal box plumbing, throttle linkage, and do a spanner check now! sadly were a bit flat out at work at the murment, few stands coming up, and someones R1 mini keeps breaking and i have to fix that...! lol.

Also, might have to put another box in the exhaust... its slightly loud! not even in a chavvy way though! it sounds like an old rally car! real bark to it!

Cheers!

Al

Edited by alexcrosse, 11 September 2009 - 10:55 AM.

[alexcrosse]

had one hell of a cold so went home this weekend. Managed to get a few things done on the car but pictures wont be up for 2 weeks until i can get back again!

The reservoirs are in, all 3 into the weber box, so eventually i will put a plate over them so itll look like a standard bulkhead and nothing but engine will be visable. The braided feed lines are in and linked up to the master cylinders, and the clutch line is also linked up, barely visable ! One problem, cant get it to bleed, the master cylinders getting fluid, and you can hear air pumping in and out of the bleed valve, just need to pressurise the reservoir I think. So in 2 weeks... i should be able to move it around the drive without having to push it! Also moved the caravan connector for the flip front lights etc into where the air intake for the heater used to be, which was 3 birds with one stone, made room for the master cylinder, makes the wire for the flip from completely invisible, and also covers the hole, genius!

Cheers,

Al

edit: oh yer, and it still starts and runs OK, needs a good week of mapping, but starts first turn

Edited by alexcrosse, 21 October 2009 - 03:26 PM.