Full on JIL

by **Alpineandy** » Mon Jun 20, 2011 5:00 pm

Looks nice, but does it work?

by **clee** » Mon Jun 20, 2011 5:28 pm

Yep
Seat and steering wheel work just great

by **Alpineandy** » Tue Jun 21, 2011 8:59 am

That'll make it go faster then...

by **clee** » Wed Jul 06, 2011 6:22 pm

terwat terwat terwat !!

valve seat machining has fecked up a head ...we think ...broken into a void in the casting or somesuchlike .......another step back but will not be defeated :cry:

Technical team will examine at the weekend and see what can be done

New rack in after a couple of tweaks ,suspension and brakes done ish ....

by **PaulyA610** » Thu Jul 07, 2011 11:56 pm

S***TER bud, keep the faith though bud!! Got to love the development stages!!!

by **clee** » Sun Jul 10, 2011 9:07 am

Head is not that clever .We are going to have to risk it though and pop in a bigger stepped seat to try and ' plug ' the hole .
Breaks into water chamber on the worked head + one other test head but not on another ...castings ......
Heat shrunk in and hope it holds out ...if not it'll lunch the engine :lol:

by **jonc** » Mon Jul 11, 2011 10:17 am

I'm not sure of the details of what's gone on but something sprung to mind, reading this.

A couple of years ago at the Silverstone Classic, I saw a guy demonstrating some special alloy that enabled you to weld alloy heads / blocks, fill holes etc. Quick and pretty easy to use and worked a treat.

Perhaps you've heard of this sort of thing but if not and if it's of interest, I'll dig the details out.

by **clee** » Sun Jul 17, 2011 7:42 am

Heads have been welded Jon ,we'll just have to see if they hold up or not ..
Front gear on .Need to chop away some of the fibreglass and let top sandwich plate in .This will carry strutbrace mounts .