While the sides were drying I thought I had better stick some more panels in. The glue is in a tube and its a pain to unblock the dried stuff from the nozzle so its just easier to get as much done as quickly as possible. Its not the most fun I have ever had, but at least, as I said before, the air rivetter, although it cant go into all the small spaces, does make it a lot easier, and actually more fun! For no real reason, apart from it was on the top of the pile, I decided to go with the seat pan next.
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The Assembly Continues
Monday, June 15th, 2009
Air Lines
Tuesday, December 30th, 2008After staring at the previous brackets for the pump and accumulator I decided they were naf and started again! this time a lay the accumulator down on its side and bolted it to an ally plate. I made new pillars for the pump, this time with spanner flats on, and again bolted it to the plate. I do however need to drill lightening holes in the plate, but I will leave that for now!
I then set about the air lines. I am using PFE lines -4 PVC lines hoes and ally fittings. These all look pretty snazzy as they are anodised blue and black.
Mounting The Air Pump And Accumulator
Sunday, December 14th, 2008Slightly off the current theme, I needed to get the pump and accumulator mounted for the wiring. The pump needed to be lifted off of the floor as it is reasonably heavy, so I made up the bracket below to weld to the chassis. I tacked the bolts to the underside as there is little room to get them in when its all in place.
Steering Wheel
Monday, October 20th, 2008As I have mentioned before I am going to use flappy paddles on the back of the wheel to operate the gearbox. After doing the column, it was sort of progressive to sort out the steering wheel. My first issue were the paddles themselves. Well, that’s a bot mean to the paddles really, it was more that I have selected one of the smallest steering wheels available, so that fat bodgers like me can actually fit in the car, but this meant that when I held the paddle blocks on the back of the wheel I couldn’t fit my hands around the rim as the paddles were in the way. I contacted Neil and he said he could make me some smaller paddles to bolt on, as they are carbon bolt on bits you can have them any size you like, but that as a one off they might be quite expensive. I therefore decided to trim mine down and see if I could make them fit. If not I could always make ally ones myself.
Mounting The Actuator
Monday, July 21st, 2008After admiring the rest of the bits from GEARTRONICS I got started at mounting the actuator. There was only one really sensible mounting point for the actuator, as it need to be hard mounted to the box, as any flex may cause issue. Therefore, as the engine is hard mounted to the cradle, and there should be little flex here, I decided to mount the actuator to the cradle, as mountings for the actuator on the engine itself were few and far between. There are some obviously, but this way is far simpler. I may have to eat my hat there so, we shall see!
Firstly I had to modify the standard Hayabusa gear shift arm. This has pressed into it a link that was no good for me as it had a funny thread. Either that or mine was damaged. So i ground the back off, and then punched out the link. This allowed me then to insert a helicoil, so I could bolt the actuator to the arm. Unfortunatly I forgot to take any pics of this.
I cut out, very roughly, the below shape from an offcut of sheet steel we had lying around. Its a couple of mm thick so thats no issue and I have two so its not going anywhere!
