Wellington Buckets, round 3

**F5 Dave** · 20th September 2005, 19:01

Can't move for extra ports. Watercooling is always more consistant tempurature wise, which means you can run closer to the edge with tolerances, compression, jetting & ignition. That's why everything modern is watercooled, mx bikes etc all went water in '81.

**Sketchy_Racer** · 20th September 2005, 20:32

true that, and you can tell if its over heating as well, did you do this work of was some already done when you got it??

**speedpro** · 20th September 2005, 21:23

Buckets I've watercooled have always been consistent with their performance - fast at the start of the race and fast at the end. Ask anyone who has done it though and they will all tell you the same thing - creating/building/fitting a waterpump is one hell of a job. I made my last one from scratch and it was a mission and was changed heaps before it worked real well. You can do a thermo-siphon job on an MB though as the barrel is nicely sloped forward. I did an AC50 like that years ago and it worked real well and was so simple.

**F5 Dave** · 21st September 2005, 10:22

I did it myself bar the welding (& some milling to speed things up). Problem was the guy welding it made a hash job & stuffed it all. To make it - worse it was a brand new barrel, never had a piston in it that I scored for $70. That made me sick & hence the prolapsed state of the bike.

I decided to graft on an NSR waterpump running at the normal gearing & direction so it should be just peachy, maybe even too good, but you can lessen efficiency & drag by spacing the cover out with some gasket.

**Sketchy_Racer** · 21st September 2005, 20:31

thats some pretty cool shit, for a bucket. so do ya have any rough ideas as to how many ponies shes going to be putting out?? or haw many tou hope it will put out??