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Post by Johansson on May 14, 2013 14:52:05 GMT -5
Today I bought a handful of AN fittings and continued hooking the oil lines up. I had to mill a slot in the front engine mount to get enough clearance for the scavenge pump line above the fuel tank. The left side scavenge pump connected to the engine and oil tank. The right side scavenge pump, I need to get a 45° AN6 fitting to connect the pump to the tank at the right angle. The fuel pump hooked up to the oil pressure regulator, I am not sure what AN size the suction line from the oil tank should be so I´ll save that one for later. AN8 should work but perhaps it is better to go up one size to make sure the pump isn´t strained. Now it is time to go shopping for more fittings, a 40mm aluminum tube is also needed to make the fill necks to the tanks. Cheers! /Anders
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Post by pitciblackscotland on May 14, 2013 17:13:41 GMT -5
Hi Anders, All those AN fittings look really cool on the bike . Cheers, Mark.
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Post by Johansson on May 15, 2013 1:26:30 GMT -5
They do indeed, not cheap but I prefer them to hose clamps. Makes disassembly pure joy. Cheers! /Anders
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Post by turbochris on May 16, 2013 8:43:52 GMT -5
Wonderful job trimming it out. Why is there a bung in the middle of the seat?
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Post by Johansson on May 16, 2013 9:30:31 GMT -5
Wonderful job trimming it out. Why is there a bung in the middle of the seat? To keep my hemorrhoids in place. No really, it was just placed there for some unknown reason.
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Post by turbochris on May 17, 2013 8:27:10 GMT -5
I would put it there w a drain pipe because i think I would shit myself if I tried to ride this thing. Shitting and smiling..... Fear, the spice of life.....
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Post by Johansson on May 17, 2013 13:45:37 GMT -5
Today the sight glasses I ordered a month ago arrived, after I get back from a weeks vacation I can finish the oil and fuel tanks!
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Post by Johansson on May 28, 2013 17:05:14 GMT -5
Back from a weeks vacation I got some work done on the oil tank today, during my daughters mid day nap I made the filler neck for the oil... ...and a weld fitting for the oil temp probe. After she woke up she took the time to test bite some suspicious stuff on the bike to make sure it was built correctly. Tonight I started welding the tank, thanks to an air cooled torch I had to let it rest halfway through unless I wanted to melt the whole thing... At least I got the front welded up, the sight glass is also fitted as you can see. Cheers! /Anders
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Post by racket on May 28, 2013 17:48:02 GMT -5
Hi Anders
LOL........was wondering where you'd got too , I was starting to have withdrawl symptoms from not getting my regular hit of build progress :-)
Thats one fine looking tank .
Your daughter is growing up so quickly, she'll be wanting to ride the bike before long ;-)
Cheers John
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Post by turbochris on May 29, 2013 10:43:06 GMT -5
the bike and the daughter, you do damn good work!
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Post by Johansson on May 29, 2013 16:31:44 GMT -5
Yeah, she is quite a little charmer my Agnes. Hopefully I can take that out of her before she turns 14... I had to get the damn Triumph running, that is why I haven´t made much progress on the turbine bike recently. Except for the standard oil leak it is finished now so I will up the pace a bit on the race bike now before a friend brings his Isotov turbine to me for a minor rebuild of the exhaust pipes etc. I finished the oil tank tonight except for the mounts, I will wait with those until the fuel tank is built. In this pic you can see the oil pickup tube that reaches 1/3 into the tank. This will prevent the pump from sucking air when the bike is braked after a run and the oil gathers at the front of the tank, I chose not to fit any internal baffles since I will be accelerating in a straight line so the oil won´t be all over the place anyway. After that I welded the tank, leak tested it and fixed a small pore that I had missed to spot earlier, nothing interesting enough to take a picture of. I did take some pics when the tank was hung in place though. A busy front end. The welds look like craps since I hadn´t finished experimenting with the welder settings but the last parts looked pretty decent. Making test welds on scrap parts is for cunts! Here is the AN10 fitting for the oil line to the pump, that size should give the pump all the oil it will ever need. I find myself walking around in the workshop with a stupid grin sometimes, this is actually starting to look like a race bike now! Cheers! /Anders
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Post by ernie wrenn on May 29, 2013 17:25:51 GMT -5
Beautiful workmanship... I'll ride it and you can drive the Hearse..
I prefer a longer nipple on the seat flange... don't want to fall off at speed.
ernie
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Post by sven on May 30, 2013 10:31:00 GMT -5
Super nice Anders
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Post by Johansson on May 30, 2013 17:06:18 GMT -5
Thanks! Ernie and Sven! By the way I´ll take that for a promise Ernie.
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Post by Johansson on Jun 3, 2013 9:36:55 GMT -5
I found some *very* interesting info in an old NACA report about water injection augmentation:
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