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[Scholes2012]

As of last night the car is now up and running again, minus the whirring/grating supercharger bearing - it now sits and purrs.......

I might look at getting the video camera mounted and see what the footage is like - no promises.....

Good to here.

and yes please, been waiting to see more vid's with eager anticipation.

[cptkirk]

Good to here.

and yes please, been waiting to see more vid's with eager anticipation.

Sorry no vids, but I will - honest...

So it had its first run out last night - feck me I had forgotten how fast it was......

the squeeks and rattles seem louder than last year, I can cure the squeeks as thats the rose joints that have dried out, a bit of oil will sort that out, the rear anti roll defo needs some lube as that really squeeks and it didnt before.

Its safe to say that I had a big old grin on my face last night when I got home......

[SukiDawg]

Nice one Andy...

[cptkirk]

I got noise tested again on the weekend, wasnt as bed as I thought it would be, well on the static noise test, havent done a drive by yet.

So some months ago I bought a stubby race can as used by big sports bikes in the hope that it was a cheap way to get the db's down, it wasnt until saturday that I actually got to test it. I rang the pit office at Goodwood and organised a time to get up there, it was Saywell International day which brings in teh crowds to oggle over Saywells collection of cars, plus lots of other interesting machinery up there just visiting. I got myself over to the Noise Test area to be promptly swamped by people wanting a look round the car, which was nice but I was there on business. The Marshalls came over with the DB meter and we set about testing:

Car standard: 105db's - surprised as it was 106 last time....

With Stubby can - no baffle: 101db's not a bad drop in noise for a 12" can

Stubby Can + Baffle: 98db's - Woo Hoo

My biggest problem from here is that when the car is revving at a constant rpm the bypass valve is wide open, letting the excess air flow back aorund from the manifold into the charger, therefore the extra noise made by the charger isnt being heard. So the drive by test will be the one to watch out for, I honestly have no idea what the drive by test will be like if I have the accelerator planted when going past a db meter.

Going to have a look for a supertrap but gettting that past the financial controoler at the minute might prove tricky......

Edited by cptkirk, 04 April 2011 - 11:10 AM.

[Evlabe]

Dude, I've spent the last two evenings reading every last post of your build thread and I have to say that I’m astonished at the attention to detail you have bestowed on this epic motor. I have a shell in the shed currently being prepared for sand blasting, a Volvo T4 engine on its way and great intentions, but that’s it so far!!!! Needless to say you have given me a great deal of inspiration and a sh*t load of questions. As I get on with the build I may be firing a few of those questions your way if you don’t mind? Again thanks for the read it’s been emotional !!!!!

[cptkirk]

Dude - My Pleasure....

PM with questions if you need to, I dont know much about the Volvo engine but the rest of it I might be able to shed some light for you.

[cptkirk]

No production photos yet as I ahve been workign on how to make a table that we can we can use for compound angles, kind of like the extra axes that you would get on a 4 axis.....

I have been able to draw up where we need to be heading, the thoughts from here are using rose joints and threaded bar, or rose joints and set length spacers to mount them to - leaning more towards the latter.

No-one said it was going be easy....................


So not to let the thread go stale here are a few screen dumps of where I am heading with the compund angle machining table:

[cptkirk]

So last night I went out for a razz around, a guy from work had come round to have a P-ride in the car so off we went round the Chichester area. We were going down a back roaad when we came up behind a guy in Ford Anglia, he was following something irrelevant, he then proceeded to overtake, I went with him and Feck me sideways he accelerated as quickly as I did, a few more mile down the road and I had a funny noise from the rear and pulled over to investigate - more of that later. As I was investigating the nocie the guy had spun around at the next roundabout and came back, he was running a 300bhp cossie lump in it, no wonder he could pull so well. We had a chat abotu the cars and then we got on our merry ways.

Back to the noise - at some point in the spirited drive with the Anglia the boot had come open, broken the supporting straps and at points was dragging along the ground by the handle, the exhaust has burnt away a big amount of the paintwork. So its a new Boot handle for me, the locking system needs revising as it could easily happen again and a bit of a respray for the boot - feck it....





Heres the damage:

[cptkirk]

I got some M10 Rose joints through from fleabay, cheap and nasty really but they wont be doing much work. Now I look at the design I could probably have gotten away without using rose joints but I got em now so they're gonna get used.

Just a few pictures of where I am heading with it, I should be able to get some work done on this later in the week.



Pictures of the new design:

[minidream94]

What colour was this anglia? theres a yellow one that i know of thats got a cossie lump in it, and also a blue one (i think) thats also running the same lump. bet you didnt expect the anglia to do what he did :L

Cars looks lush though fella how about a quick release boot? like the bonnets but with 4 retaining pins and straps, one in each corner.

[cptkirk]

I had a eureka moment last night whilst trying to get to sleep - I realized exactly what was causing the boot come open.

Last week I had the rear anti roll bar apart to lubricate and at this point I noticed that two nuts that normally hold the diffuser up weren't there, reason being that there isnt enough thread on them for a nylock to grab to. I didnt replace them at that time (will now) as I figured that the diffuser had enough stuff holding it on. So rather than incriminate myself I will suggest that the speeds reached might or might not have been in the three figure field and that the diffuser is working so well that it has pulled the flimsy bit of lower valance downwards (I dont have the normal rear valance and the bottom lip under the boot is super flimsy without it), in turn puling the bootlid down just enough to pop it open with the built up pressure inside the engine bay. The boot popped open again on Sunday when I may or may not have been in the three figure field of mph, this time I could hear it happen and there was a definite noise from the diffuser. My next move is to loctite a nut onto the ARB bolts to aid the holding up of the diffuser along with adding a bit of length to the locking mechanism.

The bootlid is already prepped and will be sprayed and returned by the end of the week if not earlier and it'll all be back together by the weekend - fingers crossed.......

[cptkirk]

What colour was this anglia? theres a yellow one that i know of thats got a cossie lump in it, and also a blue one (i think) thats also running the same lump. bet you didnt expect the anglia to do what he did :L

Cars looks lush though fella how about a quick release boot? like the bonnets but with 4 retaining pins and straps, one in each corner.

Cheers

I found out who the guy is and will pop round and see if wants to go out for a spin sometime.

As above I think I am gonna go with the normal boot catch, just a little beefed up....

[M1n1c00per]

Well the drawings look great and we can now see light at the end of the manifold, i like the rose joint concept also... But Andy the road rash on the boot just doesn't work for me.... LOL.

[SukiDawg]

Andy,

Have you thought about using K nuts rather than Nylocs? They are a bit dear admittedly, unless you happen to work for a company that makes racing engines of course... What thread are we talking about? I can send you a couple if you need.. Got loads... They won't come undone and have a lower profile than a nyloc by a long way, and are self locking.



Dave....

[cptkirk]

Andy,

Have you thought about using K nuts rather than Nylocs? They are a bit dear admittedly, unless you happen to work for a company that makes racing engines of course... What thread are we talking about? I can send you a couple if you need.. Got loads... They won't come undone and have a lower profile than a nyloc by a long way, and are self locking.



Dave....

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