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Just fyi, to remove moisture you could also process the oil using a vacuum chamber to boil the fluid out. This may be easier/faster/safer than heating it. 

11 minutes ago, SOHC said:

The bronze bushes wouldn't be very hard to do, bolt the rocker cover on and bore the bearing tunnels oversize, the bearing at the far end has a stake to stop it turning, and the bearing behind the camchain sprocket had a flange, thing munt of been running like that for 30 odd years.

Honda xr200 2valve engines have a steel bush on the end of the cam

How would you set it up though? Only way I can think of is to get a piece of bright bar twice the length of the cam then machine it to fit, clamp it in there with the cover and setup on the bar that protrudes.

Or maybe you could find a few reference surfaces in there and setup to those? Bolt holes and head gasket face? 

Nice project. Good cars! We got the wife a hybrid one a year ago, both of us love it. Looks like total nana spec but inside it feels like a sports car and drives like a kart. They ain't all the same tho! Workmate had one that was a miserable thing to drive and unbelievably slow.

So good, wish you had a YouTube series. 

Hi @Vintage Grumble how will you set that up for machining? I just can't work out how you'd get it right. 

Also, how will you retain the bearings at the driven end?

Yeah well that ctek he listed is available for as cheap as 315 elsewhere.

His price beats that by a fair amount though!

9 hours ago, Thphantum said:

They have this one in stock. List is $475, staff price is $254.

Think that will work.

That's a beast. Can I get one too for that price lol

Exactly. Ctek or nothing. No fuss and they actually do what they are supposed to. Plus some good accessories.

There are some good specials around the place too 

Nice view from @Geophys place this morning.

On 11/03/2022 at 21:08, Antonio enmkekel said:

how to turn on lambretta nsu prima dynamo

Lingling is that you

Lol my bike is around 5.5l per 100 when I'm driving pretty darn nice. 

Have heard bikes have a shit coefficient of drag but no idea how that compares with an eco.

1 hour ago, mopig said:

did you go get seafood at captain morgans?  many moons ago was the best seafood / takeaways in gizzy

yeah! actually got dinner there, was bloody good! fish, chips and a number of scallops. then for breakfast the next morning got smashed avo with eggs on toast. Bloody good, and perfectly located when camping there.

My stay was lush. Very quiet and never seen facilities so clean!!!

1300km in total.

Stoop meet in Gisborne. Did 740ish km yesterday.

yeah boi. 

Rego still on hold, replacement chassis bits ready to weld into place, the formed bits of floor ready to weld into place, etc etc.

I have done probably 80% of the rust to date, what remains is ready to go once I can make smoke and dust. The only thing stopping it from being a roller is no diff center- its on the list

Completely undecided on engine now. Sold most of my v8 stuff to fund bike stuff- and the bike stuff has made trying to make a car fast totally irrelevant. 

That's flipping incredible work. Cullen's in Te Aroha have always done my laser (and water jet, but that may have been in Auckland, my memory is fading) with good turn around times.

Just bought new heavy duty heater channels which were on special coz of light surface rust.  Can't wait for house to finish so we can move out of this fuckin shed and I can make some dust.

Actually, wont cost you much to have the wheel bored to shrink fit a sleeve either. Could only take a machinist an hour.

You have to machine down any braze anyway so you are better off spending a bit more money and having a new shaft made from scratch. That one looks totally cheesed.

Or use some kinda snorkel system to bring the hoods outlet up into an area of known low pressure.

@Roman please draw a side profile of the car and run it through a virtual wind tunnel/fluid dymanics stuff (Which i know you know how to use) and show us pretty colors to represent pressures at base of windscreen.

Isn't the base of the windscreen a high pressure area? Eg cowl induction hoods actually draw from that area rather than expelling air like you'd think.

On 11/01/2022 at 19:18, Muncie said:

If I can do a mid 13 second quarter with this combo I'll be running alongside a Toyota echo

(Hehehe)