Friday 20 May 2011

Post Stoneleigh fixes

Bought a replacement fuel pressure regulator. Too many question marks over the cheap McGill one, so got one from FSE (Malpassi) which seems to be a reasonable quality product.

Need to vent to the engine inlet (for environmental reasons mostly, but also because with present venting it gases the driver).

Compression isn't great on this engine. 8.6, 9.6, 8.0, 9.3 but all engines are test engines, so it doesn't matter much!


Need replacement manifold bolts, presently running a grab-bag of random bolts.

Need to sort out the trigger wheel above 6kRPM. Its a bit strange as this worked before, and now doesn't. Probably plan to go back to the old 12-1 trigger wheel design as that worked pretty well and ran smoother than the suzuki wheel ever did.

Bonnet insulation requires sorting because the bonnet got super-hot the other day. I've got the stuff, but want to combine it with painting the bonnet, fixing the damage, and insulating it.

One of the clamps on the exhaust fell off on the Stoneleigh run, so I need to sort that. Probably also fit an exhaust baffle to quieten things down that may even help with the over-boosting that I have. Not sure, but it was cheap from a mate and easy to fit.

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