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[benpopham]

I just visited Swiftune

[Pooky]

What you got?!

Thanks again for my stuff, sorry I couldn't be there. I've nearly finished work so get to go see the front end in a bit! *giggles*

[benpopham]

A head ... its beautiful
Thats alright Pooky.. I hope you like it, we offered it up to your mini and it seemed to fit quite well. Sorry you couldnt have been there.. would have been nice to meet you.. Il come to brighton and find you youl be the one with the carbon front!!

Nice wheels by the way.. always liked those!

Ben

[benpopham]

Its a 12G940 L3 Road Rocket cylinder head with 36/30 valves, double valve springs, and will give me a CR of 10.75:1

[PhilipGCaldwell]

now that is a thing of beauty!make my 12g940 look a bit scummy!

[Tim1970]

That head looks stunning, and should be awesome with the rest of the engine.
Really looking forward to seeing it all come together.
On another note i think i saw you at gurston the other week but didn't get a chance to say hi.
Nice work on Jim White's mini, you weren't joking about it looking different, carbon aero bits look great.

[benpopham]

Thanks very much.. Im very proud of it :0 just about to paint the red bits black to go with the rest of the engine.. I knw red adds 10hp.. but looks crap with a black block.

Ah right.. yeh I was at Gurston both days, which day were you there? We we're helping the Masters and Jim.. we're very pleased with Jim's Mini .. looks and goes brilliantly. Seems like the got the balance about right, as he was able to go flat through Hollow and no sliding

Ben

[Tim1970]

Yeah will all look good in black. With the cf fan and ram pipe it'll look real mean.
Was there on the Sunday. Yeah it definitely goes great and looks awesome.
Got quite a few pictures on my camera but haven't managed to upload them yet.
It's good to see the results of the testing at MIRA in practice.
As you say looks like it's working really well.

[benpopham]

Now its Black



Oh there is more than just the fan and ram pipe... got lots of sneaky little carbon bits to go on it.

Would love to see your pictures when you upload them please.

Ben

[Tim1970]

The head looks real sinister now, love it.
Look forward to seeing these other carbon goodies.
Will try and find my cable and some batteries and make a thread to put the pictures in.

Tim

[PhilipGCaldwell]

hows it going Ben?any progress matey?

[benpopham]

Hey
Unfortunately.. no big updates been too busy with work!

I have made some carbon tappet chest covers though every gram counts!

Also.. just seen an SW10 for sale....

[PhilipGCaldwell]

aye, not much progress with my rebuild either, still gathering parts at the mo, got my hands on a MS ultralight backplate and flywheel, also finished work on my cylinder head, all ported out nicely for good flow. Im in the progress of die grinding my block pockets, saving up for a Kent 276 cam kit, will be a tad lumpy on idle in a 998 but not too bad, good mid power.
have decided I just cant afford a lightened crank, so sticking to standard

[benpopham]

Bit of an update..

Been doing a tad of shopping and work on the engine.

The engine now has a SW10 instead of the SW5 thanks to racerpete fits nicely and a good endfloat. Just been trying to fit the timing gears and found the Crank gear is sitting 18thou higher than the cam gear, so thats off to see our engineer tomorrow to get a bit machined off so they are level. Then I can get the cam timed in.

Also been working on the ignition system. I using a PoleStar ECU, which uses a timing disk and a magnetic sensor instead of the megajolt trigger wheel. So Neil Turner of PoleStar kindly dropped off a timing disk and sensor for me to mock up on the engine. Iv got to make a bracket for the sensor, so Iv designed a nice ally tube and carbon shape

Iv also been working on a couple of carbon projects on the engine, I finished a pair of carbon tappet chest cover afew months ago that look spot on, also made, the U shaped bracket that holds the bottom of the rad cowling to the engine mount and now working on a rocker cover and timing gears case, they are coming along beautifully and when they are done il get some pictures up.

Went to order some rockers from Swiftune afew weeks ago to find they'd sold out! So Im waiting for them to come back in stock and then the head can go on

I brought a new camera, so Iv been taking lots of photos.. so Il get them up soon

More soon!
Ben

[GraemeC]

Why are all the valves in the wrong places?