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Here is the latest exhaust system still in pieces but showing the way it all comes together. The front pipe on this one is being taken round the corner of the barrel bit by bit. This is done by cutting with the grinderette (one of the best bits of equipment a bantam builder could own!), and welding together in the right angles. This takes a bit of practice. The rear cone still to be rolled and welded to the center section, this area may very well need to be tweaked over at a slight angle to get it to fit into the frame, check that out later.... last in sequence has end cone welded in place and dumped off the famous table onto the floor! barrel fittings, end pipe, silencer and mounts yet to come.
Must consider a page of carb setting up.........
The pictures above show more exhaust building and fitting to the bike. The cutting and shaping is done with a trusty grinderette after careful marking with a permanent black pen. Much care and attention needed to get a decent angle. the front pipe on this is very different to the first exhaust which if you recall had a hydraulically expanded front pipe....
A much nicer view of the pipe fitted to the bike! note this is a much physically smaller pipe than the first, plus on the amazingly famous table, all the raw silencer parts before sorting. Like the silencer outer body, end cap, mesh internal (cut to size and ready for rolling), and cut sheet ready to roll into tube to create an end fitting to the mesh. this will be brazed into place just as a support piece... show you later. Here is later! on the right pic, the mesh is rolled into a tube and fairly slack fitting ends are brazed into place. the whole thing is held together with captured 6mm nuts and Allen heads through the lot for a neat and easy to make job. The mesh by the way comes from the inside of an old filter (dirt cheap!!) and is a pain to braze as it is stainless, still worked OK though.
Merry Christmas and a happy and eventful 2004 to one and all!!! a quick and final look at the 2003 season to close things off nicely and move on to the future........
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Bikes Of 2003! Elvington circuit first. Jimmy's green meanie, loads of punch and difficult to stop! the red flier (centre), Mikes spare, seriously quick but broke down in first race. To right Cadwell, with me putting the frighteners on Pete Dunne (as if!) whilst riding Andy Mouldens spare long stroke on the way down to the hairpin. Mega fun! now lets see how my own bike performs in 2004. **********************Many thanks to all who have helped to this point so far**************************
Strange objects upon the table ? More on this thing later! The second gear has been a pain during the first test run and jumps out at the slightest provocation. On checking the gear change mechanism is seriously worn out, this has been mig welded and ground back, then file finished to get a good fit into the gear, I prefer not to re-harden this part as it may wear an expensive not so easy to obtain gear (the lot can be re-welded every year if it really matters!). More wear to seek out to make the gearbox nice and slick!
I have also added a links page that also covers things like the previously mentioned crank drawings, these can be loaded and printed from the PDF files provided. No guarantee that the drawings will give you the best crank ever! but they are what I use on mine, and will be updated if I make any changes. <LINKS PAGE.>
Look at the Brill goodies here!!! Arriving on that table again the post man has sent me a parcel to open. Allens have joined the sponsor trail and provided this excellent carb to make the machine much more user friendly... I will do a page to show the setting up procedure. Many thanks to Allens Performance Parts for their efforts!!
That strange looking horse shoe shaped bit again? what is it doing in there? New carb from Allens now fitted and piped up, looks brill and started up on the bike instantly with no known obvious problems!
More views of the carb and the blunt end of the bike, time now for some serious testing and carb setting up. Plus the next page could be just about due to come online, maybe find out about the horseshoe shaped object? How the hell does it go?