The Bucket Foundry

**F5 Dave** · 26th October 2016, 16:46

My 496 airbox was made from polystyrene glued sheets and carved to fit the frame. Skimcoat of plaster. Fibreglassed over that with epoxy resin as more fuel resistance. Mat gave an OK finish with minimal bog. Cut a hole in the top and dissolved the styrene with thinners/ picking away at it. The plaster took a little while to pick away/ clean out but it was all a lot more lazy than doing it the proper way.

**Hemi Makutu** · 26th October 2016, 16:55

Originally Posted by Flettner

One of the problems is the bloody single shock right in the way. The airfilter pipe must be curved and oval. I would like to use the original airfilter/airbox as they work real well. This air system will be in use for many engine configurations so l want it to be nice. So guess what I've been up to today, every hour or so I nip out to the back shed and start the sleeve engine up, just because I can.

Good on ya F, - have you strobed it up ign' timing-wise, or best-guessed it with dial gauge, at static?

What ball-park figures do you figure on, & does the sleeve application require a custom advance curve?

& air-box-wise..

What about a large flexible, but reinforced rubber hose then, such as a truck radiator hose,
- or even a rubber tube cut to shape & bonded over a pre-shaped metal gauze matrix?

**Flettner** · 26th October 2016, 17:30

Originally Posted by Hemi Makutu

Good on ya F, - have you strobed it up ign' timing-wise, or best-guessed it with dial gauge, at static?

What ball-park figures do you figure on, & does the sleeve application require a custom advance curve?

& air-box-wise..

What about a large flexible, but reinforced rubber hose then, such as a truck radiator hose,
- or even a rubber tube cut to shape & bonded over a pre-shaped metal gauze matrix?

Base timing at 10 degrees same as the 350. I'm using the Kawasaki's ignition but yes need to put the light on it to check

**jasonu** · 28th October 2016, 02:51

Originally Posted by Flettner

How rude of me, here is a walk around. You will see the inlet is open to atmosphere so I'm real reluctant to ride it around until that situation is remedied. I'm sure a sleeve engine would be very susceptible to ingress of dirt.
See the plumbers nightmare, many hose clips used. I'm using all four water passages on the cylinder each one aiming at an exhaust port. Starts first pull now! (thankfully).

Complete with the obligatory NZ bit o' #8 fence wire...

**husaberg** · 28th October 2016, 16:32

Originally Posted by jasonu

Complete with the obligatory NZ bit o' #8 fence wire...

We call it 4LT (4mm low tensile) now. We use the metric system that all of thew world bar the USA uses

**Frits Overmars** · 28th October 2016, 22:46

Originally Posted by husaberg

We use the metric system that all of thew world bar the USA uses

Now if you guys could decide to ride on the right side of the road, I'd feel right at home

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**ken seeber** · 28th October 2016, 23:44

Originally Posted by Frits Overmars

Now if you guys could decide to ride on the right side of the road, I'd feel right at home

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Frits, you might be right, but we wouldn't want you to feel that you had been "left" out.

**husaberg** · 29th October 2016, 00:18

Originally Posted by Frits Overmars

Now if you guys could decide to ride on the right side of the road, I'd feel right at home

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We will consider it straight after the Netherlands adopts metric time.

**Frits Overmars** · 29th October 2016, 01:32

Originally Posted by husaberg

We will consider it straight after the Netherlands adopts metric time.

Is that something you've got over there? I want to know all about it! Here we're still struggling with daylight saving nonsens.

**adegnes** · 29th October 2016, 01:46

Originally Posted by Frits Overmars

Is that something you've got over there? I want to know all about it! Here we're still struggling with daylight saving nonsens.

+1
Another one for the endless list of stuff that should be a thing of the past, but isn't.
Don't get me started on religion, or war.

**F5 Dave** · 29th October 2016, 09:13

Well if we were all taught the 24hr clock instead of the ridiculous am//pm system. . . well I wouldn't have reminder apps going off at 4 in the morning for a start.

**husaberg** · 29th October 2016, 12:49

Originally Posted by Frits Overmars

Is that something you've got over there? I want to know all about it! Here we're still struggling with daylight saving nonsens.

It was muted in the late 70's, 100 sec in a minute, 100 minutes in an hour, 10 hours in a day kind of makes sense.
Esp if you make it 10 months a year as well
But you still end up with the 365.25 days in a year.

Day light savings is all about giving people more sunlight to do stuff after work.

**F5 Dave** · 29th October 2016, 16:32

And helps sell more faded curtains of course.

**Flettner** · 29th October 2016, 17:16

Acerbis 4hour done and dusted. You should see the other guy! Looks like the shape of foot peg? Not mine I hope, funny, just after I was telling some guy (thought I should be wearing knee guards) real men don't need them.

Seems real men do indeed wear them, it's the dickheads (like me) that don't.