Thursday, October 9, 2008
Full Length Heat Shields
Full length heat shields were specified by the engineer, so 2000mm of 50mm food grade stainless was slit to provide material for the shields. Next a hand cranked set of rollers was assembled to bend the half pipes to match the curve of the exhaust pipes and brackets were fabricated to attach the shields to the exhaust pipes.
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Sunday, October 5, 2008
Motor and G/Box Specs.
The motor is a Howard Eight out of a Australian made rotary hoe from around the 1940s, it is a slow revving motor with lots of torque has a capacity of around 810cc & has the right look , for the trans I used a General Motors Holden 3 speed auto called a trimatic it to is Australian designed & built & I had one on hand. I found that the flex plate bolted straight to the hub of the blower fan on the motor , so all I had to do was modify the blower housing & cut the blower down till I had only the hub left.
This was the motor /box combination that I was going to use for the start But when I got my approval to build I found that I would have to run high back seat if I was over 350 kg ( I think cannot remember now ) ,so I got a Honda CX500 & started the build with ,Had everything sorted out with it too then I checked out the weight and found that I was nearly at the weight but to me the motor did not look right ( not old enough ) so out it came & the Howard went in, ( looks a lot better now ).
This was the motor /box combination that I was going to use for the start But when I got my approval to build I found that I would have to run high back seat if I was over 350 kg ( I think cannot remember now ) ,so I got a Honda CX500 & started the build with ,Had everything sorted out with it too then I checked out the weight and found that I was nearly at the weight but to me the motor did not look right ( not old enough ) so out it came & the Howard went in, ( looks a lot better now ).
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
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