The Fingertight Racing Sidecar Project

[racer40]

I rang Des & he says he should be there, What about Brenton ?

[Pumba]

IT LIVES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(And yes i really did do a happy dance all over the garage)

[Henk]

Awesome, that's what I wanted to hear.
See you sunday

[Gazzza]

Just to confirm we will be there rain hail or shine, great to hear Pumba's beast lives will see you guys Sunday (sorry Saturday is out)

[Pumba]

Just spent some time in the shed going over it all (read checking bolts, in my defence only two of the axles were fingretight). Still a couple of things to do, need to pick up a couple of bolts tomorow to replace some stuffed ones, some copper washers so I can finish the brakes (need them for the new master cylinder on the FXR as well) and some fork oil (not that the forks appear all that effective I am sure they will work better with some oil).

Still hoping I can get up there Saturday for a couple of laps, but who knows at this stage.

[Moooools]

I guess I will start the bets on how reliable this one is:

You will turn up on saturday with just a couple of things left to cable tie up proclaiming that it ran great up the driveway when you tried it.

It will start and run for a few minutes but half way into your first lap it will start missing and you won't have a fucking clue why.

Then you realise that a jet has fallen out and your choke is not the sidecar model and the fuel pump is pumping backwards and you will fix all of those things.

It will start running rough again 3 laps in and you really have no clue now so Henk and Rick come over and help. After 2 hours of dicking around you trace it back to a fucked CDI and Henk grabs one out of the van and throws it in and it is running again.

Next run things are going good until the 5th lap when one of the wheels falls off.

You carry it to pits and refit the wheel, suit up and sit on it and your swinger realises the engine mounts are all cracked.

You go home defeated and saddened.

Repeat for every bucket meet until the end of time.

[Henk]

Thank you max, our resident ray of sunshine.

[Moooools]

Thank you max, our resident ray of sunshine.

You are more than welcome Henk.

[Henk]

You are more than welcome Henk.

Some of that was uncalled for I must say.
Yes we have had

1. CDI issues
2. Fuel pump issues
3. Engine ready to fall out because the engine mounts all cracked

We've never had a wheel fall off, jet fall out or a wheel fall off.

We have had issues with cracked exhausts, stripped key on the sprocket holder and all the air in one of the tyres repeatedly making a bid for freedom, aside from that they have been quite reliable when they weren't upside down.

[Moooools]

Some of that was uncalled for I must say.
Yes we have had

1. CDI issues
2. Fuel pump issues
3. Engine ready to fall out because the engine mounts all cracked

We've never had a wheel fall off, jet fall out or a wheel fall off.

We have had issues with cracked exhausts, stripped key on the sprocket holder and all the air in one of the tyres repeatedly making a bid for freedom, aside from that they have been quite reliable when they weren't upside down.

Hey now I didn't say it was just your chair!
I was referring to a variety of three wheeled automotive contraptions that have turned up. I don't know if a jet has specifically fallen out on any chair but there seems to be a repeating issue of engines not fuelling properly in these things.

[wildman]

I guess I will start the bets on how reliable this one is:

You will turn up on saturday with just a couple of things left to cable tie up proclaiming that it ran great up the driveway when you tried it.

It will start and run for a few minutes but half way into your first lap it will start missing and you won't have a fucking clue why.

Then you realise that a jet has fallen out and your choke is not the sidecar model and the fuel pump is pumping backwards and you will fix all of those things.

It will start running rough again 3 laps in and you really have no clue now so Henk and Rick come over and help. After 2 hours of dicking around you trace it back to a fucked CDI and Henk grabs one out of the van and throws it in and it is running again.

Next run things are going good until the 5th lap when one of the wheels falls off.

You carry it to pits and refit the wheel, suit up and sit on it and your swinger realises the engine mounts are all cracked.

You go home defeated and saddened.

Repeat for every bucket meet until the end of time.

So where's the one you were building???????? I'd rather push my sidecar than ride a bike [ it gets me fitter ]

[Henk]

Hey now I didn't say it was just your chair!
I was referring to a variety of three wheeled automotive contraptions that have turned up. I don't know if a jet has specifically fallen out on any chair but there seems to be a repeating issue of engines not fuelling properly in these things.

Yeah there has been a fair bit of time spent getting fuelling sorted on just about every chair I've seen early on. Once sorted they are all good though. I think I'd go for gravity feed if it could be made to work around the space constraints. Vacuum pumps are all good once set up and the electric pump on the Lawrence rig is pretty well sorted now. The biggest issue they had was either too much pressure or not enough, all on the same day.

[Drew]

Yeah there has been a fair bit of time spent getting fuelling sorted on just about every chair I've seen early on. Once sorted they are all good though. I think I'd go for gravity feed if it could be made to work around the space constraints. Vacuum pumps are all good once set up and the electric pump on the Lawrence rig is pretty well sorted now. The biggest issue they had was either too much pressure or not enough, all on the same day.

I can actually be partially helpful in a bucket thread for once.

Is your tank baffled really well? On our full size chair the first five litres represent the bottom of the tank, and everything over it will make it's way to the motor. And that's with a very small baffled area at the pickup.

Pressure regulator fixes the over fueling on carbs. Bit of fucking around to set it up, pressure guage inline, and pump gas into your bowl slowly. When the pressure spikes, repeat on an adjustable regulator (ball valve will do) and replicate the first test on the guage.

[Moooools]

So where's the one you were building???????? I'd rather push my sidecar than ride a bike [ it gets me fitter ]

Meh. one day. Too many projects. I have a CAD model that I tick away at here and there when I am bored.

[Moooools]

Yeah there has been a fair bit of time spent getting fuelling sorted on just about every chair I've seen early on. Once sorted they are all good though. I think I'd go for gravity feed if it could be made to work around the space constraints. Vacuum pumps are all good once set up and the electric pump on the Lawrence rig is pretty well sorted now. The biggest issue they had was either too much pressure or not enough, all on the same day.

Also I can't imagine standard float bowls are much use with any sort of lateral G. But I don't know if they will actually stop fuelling or just try and spill out the overflows.