Top work that!!!! Nice
Loooooowww :cool:
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Top work that!!!! Nice
Loooooowww :cool:
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Originally Posted by trackdaynova
We'll have to see on that one! I'm just relying on the fact that circuits are smooth!! lol If not its dry sump time! lol
saloon ftw :)
Looking good now mate, when is the next installment coming?
Carbs arrived today, will gets some better pics up at the weekend. Need to have a good look as to whether they can be respaced as I want it to fit on the manifold with straight runners.
Hopefully Michael will be back in 2 weekends time for another days work.
fantastic, awesome work there dude, i even thought bout getting a sedan for a second then......
Loving your work Simps. Should look cool as ever when finished. Hell it looks good now in the stage it is in!!
cheers dudes! Makes it all worth doing.
Ben - only for a second?! lol
Good work Simps looks like you are puttin a load of time into this. Interesting read for me but I have one question, I hope Im not gonna make myself look like a n00b:Quote:
Originally Posted by The Simps
Why does the rear wheel look like its not sitting center of the rear arch and more towards the left?
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Originally Posted by Nova_Tek
Not a noob at all mate! does look od I know! Was like that before we touched anything...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...8122008041.jpg
And other side is the same...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3.../05-05-085.jpg
I'm guessing a saloon thing maybe?
anyone got a pic of hatch rear square on with no bumper on (bumper comes into the arch remember!)?
Here we go! If you look where my old hatch one sits, its right at the front of the arch. If you take the bumper off which wraps around into the arch I bet it would look the same!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...d/15042007.jpg
Hmmm... maybe the absence of the bumper gives that illusion. Hopefully its just that, you'll find out for sure when you do the 4 wheel tracking.
I've said it once and I'll say it again, that red Nova... love it!
This looks awesome ive just read it through from page one, major attention to detail absolutely spot on:thumb:
As for the rear wheel in the arch this will be because its so low its passed its longest point and is starting to be pulled back in towards the car body the lower you run it due to the beam being in a fixed position, if you raise it then it should in theory return to near center and after so much travel will move back towards the line of the car body the more you move it away if that makes any sense at all?
The wheel doesn't look like it's centered in the arch because it ISN'T sitting in the middle of the arch.
No loon based illusion - you can see it on the red one above also.
Simple reason is the beam is going beyond the horizontal and shortening the wheelbase. Go measure it - you've lost about 18MM from the rear alone there.
well no, im actually begiing to think about 1 as a next project.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Simps
i think its just them cav turbo wheels, they suit that car sooo much. please tell us you are going to have a quick respray just to tidy it all up.
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Originally Posted by ben doodar
As I've said many a times it is rock bottom on the shopping list. Its just unneccessary spending imo. Yes it will look prettier but thats not what its built for! The engine bay will be nice, clean, simple and pretty looking - that will be the attraction. The outside will be an illusion as it were.
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Originally Posted by BRoadGhost
The axle is no longer horizontal, its starting to slope up.
Exactly so the wheel base has been shortened.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Simps
The carbs...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...t/02-01-09.jpg
David - SLICKCORSA has kindly offered to help me break them down this weekend and see whats involved to re-space them to find the standard XE runners like his bike throttle bodies:-
http://www.migweb.co.uk/forums/attac...6&d=1223747135
http://www.migweb.co.uk/forums/attac...9&d=1223747272
On 1st inspection of the carbs it looks like exactly the same needs to be done.
Only probs with splitting the carbs is having to extend the linkage rods etc between the carbs, and the fuel rail that feeds the carb float bowls
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Originally Posted by Adam
David had the linakge bars extended if you look on the pics and had a great job done of it! We'll basically strip them all done and go from there - can only but try!
K,cool. Tis miles easier to keep the carbs standard, and make an inlet to suit. But if your working on a budget then its worthwhile having a mess and seeing what can be done. :)
You're looking at £150-200 to buy a manifold. Might get lucky and get on for less. I can probably get thecarbs respaced for between £0-50 if its possible. Worth having a go and will give nice straight runners!
looking at the pic below Adam.
What do A & B need connecting up to? They are listed in the R1 workshop manual as Vacuum chamber vent hose (A) & Float chamber vent hose (B).
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...imps/carbs.jpg
Personally Id just sort out the probelm areas in a DIY fashion and give it a quick decent spray with rattle cans. Will look tidier but will still have that 'rustic' (sp) look for you to be able to show off your lumpQuote:
Originally Posted by The Simps
So the wipers saga continues! I'm determined not to be beaten lol
So, the spindle thats in there at the moment is this one and the rod is connected to the ball joint on the right...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...t/Image025.jpg
I decided to swap it for the other spindle which was just straight (same length) but the ball joint is not offset. This did give a slightly longer sweep but the link bar was hitting the spindle :mad:
Off came the link bar and I grabbed the spare one for the otherside. Modifications commenced!...
Success!! It no longer hits and I've got a half decent sweep. There's still a little more room if I want to push it so I'm gonna try shortening a touch the spindle rod. I also need to get a straight wiper arm from the scrappy. But this is what its like so far...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...h_Video003.jpg
"A" are just left open as there breathers.
Pretty sure "B" is the fuel supply, and as you can see the carbs have kind of a fuel rail inbetween them.....
Carb update is next, just sorting the pics!
Onto the R1 carbs next.
Massive thanks again to David for his help today! We set to work stripping the carbs in his cosy warm workshop (:roll:) and now I have 4 individual carbs...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...t/DSCF0050.jpg
The spacing should be relatively easy. The choke bracket needs cutting and extended where marked with a black pen and 2 new longer bolts need making up...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...t/DSCF0058.jpg
Spacers need re-making for fuel and others...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...t/DSCF0062.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...t/DSCF0063.jpg
The throttle linkages fit together by a little tab that sits between a spring and another top on the ajoining body. The tab just needs lengthening as per David's (last pic)...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...t/DSCF0056.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...t/DSCF0057.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...t/DSCF0045.jpg
Next up is to chop down a standard inlet manifold and so about making up some alloy runners to mate engine with carbs!
Some questions tho I wouldn't mind having confirmed.
I'm fairly confident this is the fuel in pipe on he back of one of the carbs...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...t/DSCF0054.jpg
There's a large pipe one end and a smaller (vacuum size pipe on the far end of the bank of carbs. Nothing came attatched to these - what are they?
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...t/DSCF0051.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...t/DSCF0052.jpg
And finally, referring back to an old picture...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...imps/carbs.jpg
I've been told these breathers are needed and don't connect up to anything. Question is can I take off the stupid black things on A and just leave the pipe exposed one end and the holes in sides of the carbs open? And on B remove the piping and again leave holes in the sides of the carbs? Surely this will invite crap into the carbs?
They are listed in the R1 service manual as:-
A - Vacuum chamber air vent hose
B - Float chamber air vent hose.
Thanks in advance.
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Yes you can remove the black things, but they have small filters in to stop crap getting into the diaphram chamber covers.
Those thin pipes, one each end of the carb set is for a coolant connection, so isnt needed.
I had a labelled diagram somewhere, will see if i can dig it out.
be interesting to see the outcome of the carb modifications
Use bloody macro.
Why are you making them individual?
Why not use them? The warmer must work good for them to have it?Quote:
Originally Posted by Adam
Found some of my old pics of mine
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v8...0006-vent3.jpg
Red-Idle mix screw
Yellow-Fuel bowl drain screws
Blue-Fuel IN
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v8...0005-vent2.jpg
Coolant circulation circuit, comes the side of the carb at tother end
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v8...rew/Pipes1.jpg
Blue-Idle speed adjuster
Red-Carb breather circuit(just leave that open and pointing down), it runs to the airbox on the R1 bike originally.
Hope that helps.