Post #19963, photos, two pages back;
Again, Ken's list still only says "spacer-plate" while, somewhere back a ways, Frits said something close to "spacer/valve plate." Look at the photos. Looks to me as though there are two big "transfer" (?) passages that are fed from that plate, maybe, . . . so what's the deal with those???? Or is that only a big water jacket around the exhaust area, and not transfers at all??? (Laugh all you want, Frits, I'm anonymous here, nyah, nyah).
(EDIT) "Direct injection"?? Racer, I thought he said the engine has a carburetor, mandated by the kart rules, Yes? No?
Well that was Mt Wellington today.
As I remember it, A grade finishing order was:-
Prelim:- 2T 2T 4T 2T 2T 2T 4T all the rest 4T's
Race 1- 2T 2T 2T 2T 2T 4T 2T all the rest 4T's
Race 2- 2T 2T 2T 2T 2T 4T 2T all the rest 4T's
Its starting to look like, that unless your peddling a well developed 2T you are going to struggle to run at the front of F4 A grade.
And from Dave D
Hi there,
The results of the 4th round of the 15/16 season of AMCC bucket racing from Sunday are attached, for publication in the club newsletter.
Tim has already updated the website & Mylaps.
1516ABUC.xls
2 new lap records were set yesterday:
28.811 for Dave Manuell for F4 A grade clockwise
33.805 for Max Olsen for Sidecar clockwise
Regards,
David Diprose
Links within the link below to the back story.
Many thanks to Kickaha for the GN clutch.
Honda copy Monkey Bike primary gears are straight cuts which have the same C/C distance as the GP.
GN Clutch on the left and GP one on the right. Previously I had managed to squeeze an extra plate into the GP one. The original GP 6 plate clutch would slip under power, modifying it for 7 plates cured the slip.
The big gear is smaller than the original GN125 and GP125 helical gears.
Once the straight cut gear is fitted to the GN clutch it will spin faster, transmits the same power but the plates are subjected to less torque and the need for cramming in an extra plate to stop clutch slip.
The new GP/NSR110 is going to have straight cut primary gears and conventional clutch springs.
EVERYTHING SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN DONE BEFORE.
At the Bathurst motor museum, there is a neat collection of bikes, inc some 125 classics. One being a 1950 BSA Bantam racer. With a touch of early Oz ingenuity (pre Fletto stuff), this featured a 24/7 inlet in conjunction with the original piston port inlet. Also featured an exhaust system designed with the help of an early version of FOS exhaust software:
As an added bonus, they also had a bucket for you bucketeers:
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Frits, some answers if you will. What happens with the ryger engine at part throttle in high reves, how does it respond?
This BMEP thing, apparent 207 psi at 17500 rpm (my calculation) how much of that figure is actual BMEP and how much is this figure influenced by the frctionlessness of the mechanical set up? In other words because the engine is so free running ( no rings touching the piston, no piston touching the bore ) the actual cylinder pressure might be quite low or at least lower than we think. Yes.
Frits,Originally Posted by Frits Overmars;1130910922ATTACH
Even people who label stuff in museums can sometimes be wrong, at least in this case it isn't exaggerated!
In my experience, as far as racing was concerned, the Bantam in most cases had a first gear which was suitable only for the paddock anyway. so 3 X 3 = 6 is reasonably correct here! (give or take a little).
BTW, I reckon the early Kreidler racers blatantly copied this machine's transmission system (by using 2 gearboxes!)
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