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| Joe d:
Hey Rob Go for it. There are a bunch of parts on this thing that could be cast as opposed to machined from barstock.... :clap: :clap: :clap: Cheers, Joe |
| Rob.Wilson:
Hi Joe You read my mined :lol: :lol: i was thinking the very same thing ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,oh so many things to build :proj: Regards Rob :thumbup: |
| Joe d:
Been a while, a number of sadly not machining related things in the way lately, but finally able to pick up where I had left off, with plumbing: here are the bits for the exhaust manifold, straightforward turning for the flanges, and used the tubing bender I built a little earlier for the first time for real... Instead of building some complex jig for soldering, used the engine it's self: first the curved pipes into the flanges and then the bottom end of the curved pipes into the straight section of the manifold still got some cleaning up to do, some excess flux and a few spots with some wayward solder. ::) ::) Cheers, Joe |
| Stilldrillin:
Very nice to see this is moving on again, Joe. :wave: Neat work, adding to the already completed, neat work...... :thumbup: Well done! :clap: David D |
| Joe d:
Thanks, David. Got some more done in between some surprise honeydo's... :wack: Tried out the fit of the exhaust manifold with the coolant return in place, and was not at all pleased, the curved pipes of the manifold were just touching the coolant return pipe.... not visually pleasing at all. so, faffed around for the best part of a week, made new dies for the tubing bender to try to form a tighter curve for the manifold pipe (in several sizes) and used up all the tubing I had on hand with no useful result... so then went with plan B, and put an "s" bend in the coolant inlet and return pipes, and it looks a lot better to me now. This will change the size of the outlet pipes from the water jacket, no biggie. :hammer: That done, moved on to the fuel intake manifold. First up: cut a little piece off of my secret stash of 1/2" brass.. after a little milling & drilling, cut and bent some tubing, and here are the bits Again used the engine as the soldering jig and here's all the plumbing done to date, and, couldn't resist sticking it all together to have a look The fitting in the centre of the intake manifold still needs a bit to hold the carb, I'll make it to fit the carb once I've acquired one... otherwise in plumbing only got the 4 little bits left to do that return the coolant from the water jacket to the coolant return manifold Cheers, Joe |
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