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Generator

Thursday, April 8th, 2010

Now, I know I have put up a picture of the old generator before, but I thought I would show the comparison of new and old. You can see the damaged windings in the old, but the whole thing looks a little discoloured. This may just be a different potting compound but some areas are darker than others. I cant see any physical damage to the rotor, so I can only assume that when the original reg/rec went wrong it may have either been caused by this, or perhaps have actually caused it. But I am not too sure.

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Oil Cooler

Monday, March 8th, 2010

Although the oil cooling was much better, I have decided that I want to be able to control the temperature and be able to run tape over the cooler! This means that I need a CTR Developments oil cooler! We make these ourselves but do take quite a time, 5-6 weeks, but there is nothing better. However I needed to make a drawing for the cooler, hence the scribbles on the bodywork! Hopefully I will have it ready in time for the first race…

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Generator

Monday, March 8th, 2010

I have now taken the generator out of the engine. You can see from the picture below that it is knackered! There is a burnt out set of windings, and hence no charging voltage of any worth. I dont remember it being like this when I rebuilt the engine, but it must have been damaged, and it has got worse and worse. I can only assume that the whole charging circuit was damaged as the reg/rec was also faulty when I first started up the engine.

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New Fuel Pressure Reg

Saturday, December 19th, 2009

Unfortunately whilst testing the fuel system after changing the pump for a slightly smaller one, I noticed the fuel pressure was all over the place. It turns out that the pressure reg had gone down. It would work some of the time, but it you tapped it the pressure changed! Luckily we had a couple of spares for the 935, so I swapped it in. All seems OK now, so fingers crosses.

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Air Ducting

Sunday, December 6th, 2009

The heat reflective ‘stuff’ has a sticky back to it and I assume is up to the task. After sticking it to the airbox as shown before I trimmed it back to suit the curve of the body. It actually looks a little lopsided, but that is because the airbox is not in the centre of the car as its offset from the centre of the engine. Until I realised this I thought that something was drastically wrong!I then used some ally tape to cover the edges and the raised rear section. This actually came out pretty well, yes I know the top edge will get bent around a bit, but I dont think that really matters! I also stuck a small bit of the heat reflective gaff on the underside of the box close to the exhaust.

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