Project JetBLICK by JetBLICK

By diyauto
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4 minute(s) of a 162 minute read

1-22-2008

Soz alex, got no idea how he tuned the weber. I asked him how he knows what he's doin, lol, thers soo many parts and different combinations of everything, and the difference between it working and not is fractions of a fraction of a mm. I'd imagine your best bet would go and speak to someone who knows, and ask them to show you mate, because its all witchcraft to me.

Boo... the problem was i had no endfloat. With the thrusters in, you knock the crank over to one side, so its pushed up against a pair of the washers. Then on the opposite side you measure the clearance between the thrust face and the thrust washers, and it should be between 4 and 6 thou (i think or its mite be 5-7?). To get the right clearance i needed one pair of +3 thou oversize thrust washers, and one standard pair. It turns out one of the standard pair was also +3 thou oversize... which didnt give enough clearance.

Pie boy... u said i got em in the wrong way round, i'm not that clumsy :thumbsup:


Been busy today, picked up various bits to put the motor back together, got new thrusters... learnt my lesson now... always measure end float with a dial on the end of the crank... if i'd have done that this would have shown up the first time round :proud:

Engines goin back in 2morra hopefully, got a few tips off the RR guy on sortin out the brakes and should have time to do them tomorrow too.

The RR guy also suggested i put a box in for the weber, as it could be considered a fire hazard :thumbsup: So i fabricated this little beauty... well pleased how it turned out, i was like back at school when we used to make 'nets' for 3D shapes and make em outta paper... cept this time it was in ally, woop! found a real world use for something i did at school! :D

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L8rz :D


1-23-2008

what u chattin b'aaat, pie wern't there :P


Yea, the hope is to be at bingly, fingers crossed.

I can very happily say that its all back in now :D Gotta run down the motor factors first thing to get some brake fluid and oil. With any luck and all running smoothly (which it undoubtably wont) i may be able to get it done in time to run him down to the rollers in the afternoon :)

Ta-da

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Love Mini Coupes! My best friend has one.

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