Chance favors the well prepared.
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Chance favors the well prepared.
like that quote!
yup....don't mind takin a chance when the odds are in my favor! good idea with that oil test tank......don't want a blue cam or crank, and don't like the squeal of an engine locking up.
Not much done.
Struggling with my health and another round of testing. No results yet. Doc has exhausted the heart testing, even a stress test.
Some small amount of work done with the gas tank.
Closing the ends. One end tacked it.
Test fit tacked onto the bottom.
And how it sits on the frame.
And I think it is the kinda narrow chopper look I wanted to the front.
Now to make up the rear of the tank and tack it out.
Then the shell comes back off for welding end panels in.
top cyl ducts?
will there be any over the cylinder ducting?.....seen you had some made for underneath. lotsa trike in a small package. looking good!
No probably not.
It has run a long time with no tins on it.
I will just have to see how this larger motor handles it.
Welded a bit today.
Some more on the gas tank.
Welded up and finished the oil primer tank.
And the re-install wire harness after the trouble shooting was not fully installed. So finished up a few loose details there.
Death by SS do you Safety Wire some of the fasteners & bits & pieces when you button it all up & back together ?
It looks like something at the Stennis Space Center that Werner Von Braun breathed on before he died ...Originally Posted by Gator Monroe
Not so much safety wire.
I use a lot of nylocks, aircraft locknuts, whatever you like to call them.
Lock tight on a few things also.
So....
Some small amounts done.
The two halves of the tank are welded out.
The sealer is ordered. I am going to put the sealer on everything other than the last seam. Then weld the two halves together and roll put sealer in and roll that last seam.
I got the engine oil. Now to do the prime up.
I am going to have to recruit some welding help with the headers.
Working down a list of small details.
Tank looks good ... getting close to the test flight ...
Gas tank sealer came in Saturday from wal mart.
But like usual I worked all weekend.
Maybe later.
I primed up the oil system today.
It all seemed to work as it should.
I have lots of oil pressure. Probably too much.
But then I do plan on thin synthetic oil after break in.
On another note.....
That oil pressure can is hard to control.
I sprayed about a quart if oil all over the place including in my face right off the bat.
Learned real quick that a little air goes a long way and to sneak up on it.
Got a few more of the small details done.
Dial indicated tdc and set the timing pointer and the sync of the ford crank trigger ring.
Adjusted the valves and sealed up the valve covers.
Installed the iridium spark plugs and the ford spark plug wires.
Check a bolt here and there....
The main thing missing is welding out the headers.
Made a vacuum accumulator can today.
I am going to hook up the map sensor and find out if I have enough vacuum and/or variance thereof to program with.
Good grief.....
6 hours of welding to get less than a half a header done.
curious
getting close to firing up! any fuel and ignition maps available for your setup? or megasquirt tuner studio plans? you have bungs for wideband sensors....going to use?
No two maps are the same on custom engines.
Everything about the engine would have to be exactly the same like a production car.
So you do the calculations and put the numbers in.
Hopefully it will start.
Then tune from there.
As it stands it will be dual narrow bands.
Maybe one day it will be wideband.
But that will probably be if/When I do a cpu upgrade.
That half header installed.
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