flyingbrick Posted July 3, 2018 Share Posted July 3, 2018 I think that is a great idea. Plus could have a carbon fiber body made! not historically correct but still cool. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
98cc Posted July 3, 2018 Author Share Posted July 3, 2018 14 hours ago, nzed said: Nice!! I bet you are stoked with it. is it worth it to get a mold off it while its all complete? Yep really stoked. I did think about the mold idea but i don't think it would be worth it. Making a mold would be a massive job, the way Dennis did it is quite a simple way of getting a complicated shape quickly and easily where a molded body is another couple of large processes to go through. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tortron Posted July 3, 2018 Share Posted July 3, 2018 Get real good with a hammer and some aluminium Then spend the rest of your life polishing Nice 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post 98cc Posted August 2, 2018 Author Popular Post Share Posted August 2, 2018 The Spider has been resurrected! I'm extremely pleased with how its turned out and very exited for the future of racing it. The last few weeks I have been through the mechanical's. Pulled the brake system apart for new seals (apart from Dennis's homemade brake piston seals, they are ok luckily!) Only one master cylinder needed re sleving. After a new fuel filter and battery the motor fired up, was quite smokey to start with as you can imagine but with a bit of running it cleaned right up. It makes is an extremely loud, crisp, angry, un-muffled, expansion chambered 2 stoke sort of noise. Had a bit of a drive, could only get it into 2nd gear in the space available but acceleration is spectacular. Brakes work well, the clutch and gearbox is very nice but might be slipping a bit so will have a look at that. I also got the front wheels painted, one of the jobs Dennis never got around to doing. Allport Motorsport brought me in a fresh pair of Hoosier slicks. The compound is R25b which is the softest Hoosier do, the only compound available in this size. Their extremely sticky, even cold! This is going to go round corners like its on rails. If anyone knew of deals to get these slicks cheaper in the future i'd love to hear from you! One thing I need to sort out before racing is a new harness, Again if anyone knows where i can get a new blue Simpson like the one it has that would be awesome. 45 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post HighLUX Posted August 2, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted August 2, 2018 Video of 2t braaaaaaaps please 18 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vintage Grumble Posted August 2, 2018 Share Posted August 2, 2018 1 minute ago, HighLUX said: Video of 2t braaaaaaaps please 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peteretep Posted August 2, 2018 Share Posted August 2, 2018 oh man this is so cool, and those spanny's!! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kws Posted August 2, 2018 Share Posted August 2, 2018 awesome looking car, well done! Also vids. It may be obvious, but what is the black thing sticking up to the left of the steering wheel? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Snoozin Posted August 2, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted August 2, 2018 Would you be keen on a shoot and a story about Denis, the car, you and it's restoration for my NZ Autocar classics yarns that I spin? It's throughly interesting. 19 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rot808 Posted August 3, 2018 Share Posted August 3, 2018 Cannot wait to hear this, must sound spectacular sitting in the drivers seat 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kimjon Posted August 4, 2018 Share Posted August 4, 2018 So very well done. Fantastic effort and grwat results 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
98cc Posted August 4, 2018 Author Share Posted August 4, 2018 On 8/2/2018 at 21:54, HighLUX said: Video of 2t braaaaaaaps please Will get it sorted! On 8/3/2018 at 00:24, peteretep said: oh man this is so cool, and those spanny's!! Cheers Pete, Yep the spanny's are something else alright... On 8/3/2018 at 10:05, kws said: awesome looking car, well done! Also vids. It may be obvious, but what is the black thing sticking up to the left of the steering wheel? Thanks man. The black thing is a rear view mirror mount, just need to find a nice mirror for it. On 8/3/2018 at 11:56, Snoozin said: Would you be keen on a shoot and a story about Denis, the car, you and it's restoration for my NZ Autocar classics yarns that I spin? It's throughly interesting. Yep that sounds good, Dennis is a very interesting person and would be great to have an article published on him and the car. 23 hours ago, rot808 said: Cannot wait to hear this, must sound spectacular sitting in the drivers seat Yep it sure does! 5 hours ago, Kimjon said: So very well done. Fantastic effort and grwat results Cheers Kimjon! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post 98cc Posted January 14, 2019 Author Popular Post Share Posted January 14, 2019 So I had this at Hampton downs a couple of months ago for a race car track day. It went very well and is awesome to drive. Really good to get it on the open track and stretch its legs a bit, The sound it makes opened up in 4th gear is amazing. Towards the end of the day it started not running right, very much like it was lean so we packed up and went home. I pulled the fuel injection unit off to learn about it and try figure out what the problem was. It’s quite a neat unit that Dennis has come up with. It’s very simple in operation, with all the workings of a mechanical injection unit but the fuel doesn’t actually get injected in under pressure, it is sucked through the fuel nozzles by crankcase vacuum. The problem with it was with the diaphragms in fuel regulator units that are part of the injection system. After replacing those and putting it all back together it ran perfectly again. I’m driving this at Leadfoot next month, have a few more final jobs to do and then it’s good to go. 21 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post 98cc Posted January 14, 2019 Author Popular Post Share Posted January 14, 2019 Ahh yeah this is what it sounds like 28 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MKD Posted January 15, 2019 Share Posted January 15, 2019 Open 4th gear braaps please!!! Looks and sounds amazing, awesome job @98cc !! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Truenotch Posted February 4, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted February 4, 2019 It was great to see this at Leadfoot on Sunday! You've done a great job bringing it back! How did it run? I only saw you head up the hill once and was surprised that it wasn't crazily loud with non-muffled exhaust setup. 15 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vintage Grumble Posted February 4, 2019 Share Posted February 4, 2019 I see a camera on the fire wall, you better post some videos young man! Also, where did you get that hat? I must have one. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Testament Posted February 7, 2019 Share Posted February 7, 2019 def favourite car/bathtub of the event so well done. was cool to meet old dennis too still cant get over how tiny everything is, like 3/8" wheel stud or something haha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post 98cc Posted February 12, 2019 Author Popular Post Share Posted February 12, 2019 On 04/02/2019 at 21:14, Truenotch said: It was great to see this at Leadfoot on Sunday! You've done a great job bringing it back! How did it run? I only saw you head up the hill once and was surprised that it wasn't crazily loud with non-muffled exhaust setup. Cheers Truenotch. Had a great time at Leadfoot, so good to get the car to a motorsport event again. A few teething issues including the problem that i thought i fixed with the new diaphragms. I think the crankcase seals are toast and its lacking in crankcase compression. There was a lot of oily mess around the engine and i think the seals are the only place it could be coming from. Also missed one run after i failed to make it out to the start. Fired up the motor on the dummy grid ready to drive out to the start line, selected first gear let the clutch out and oh shit i'm going backwards........ Bit odd as it has no reverse gear. It was making some bad noises in the gearbox and i thought it had done some major damage somehow. Pushed it back to the pits, had a think about it and started it up again. Turns out it somehow backfired on startup and started running backwards, all of the noises from the gearbox was just the gear set spinning in reverse..... 2 strokes eh, Dennis had never had that happen to him. Yeah a few people made that comment about it not being as loud as they though it would of been. One of the theory's is that it was quite loud but nowhere near the level of some of the other cars going up the hill. A couple of those rotary's were extremely loud. On 07/02/2019 at 13:03, Testament said: def favourite car/bathtub of the event so well done. was cool to meet old dennis too still cant get over how tiny everything is, like 3/8" wheel stud or something haha Cheers man, Yeah i brought Dennis along for the event. He had an amazing time and was awesome for him to see it going up the hill, was probably the first motorsport event hes been to in 20 years. Yeah its miniature, all done to keep the weight down. Oh yeah got it on the scales, only 330kgs!!!!! I see a camera on the fire wall, you better post some videos young man! Also, where did you get that hat? I must have one. Unfortunately the camera didn't work VG so no hill vids. I was yarning to this young american dude at the event about the car and he was wearing the hat. Turns out hes super into 2 stroke dirt bikes in the states. Asked him where i could get myself of those epic hats and he took it off and gave it to me. Complete GC, said he had got it at a motorcross event somewhere along the line. Wise words to live by. 23 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Truenotch Posted February 12, 2019 Share Posted February 12, 2019 Crank seals / leaky crank case issues can be hard to diagnose too. Apparently it can make an engine appear to be running rich (and sound like it's 4 stroking), when actually it's leaning out. 2 strokes can definitely be challenging little things! But we definitely need to see more of them out there . 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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