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GlennLever:
February 26, 2013, 05:18:51 PM

Bolted the intake on.

GlennLever:
March 07, 2013, 04:56:46 PM

Steve and I got together and cut down the standoffs for the belt guard.

So this is what we started with Note that the top pulley is JUST inside the guard and the way the guard comes from RCD the bolt heads are sticking out over the pulley.



So we pulled it all apart, cut a 1/4 inch off the standoffs, and machined counter sinks into the starter bracket so that the heads are flush.

GlennLever:
March 10, 2013, 09:17:17 AM

I installed the blower (not to be removed again until at lest after the first fire up) using custom aluminum studs ( I have a 4 inch spacer between the intake and the blower)made by Roo Man (replaced the steel tread rods used for mock up).



As I must make it look pretty as well as having if functional, each stud was measured once fully threaded (the reason each one had to be measured is the blind holes in the intake were all different lengths) into the BDS intake manifold, cut to get the stud to fully thread into the acorn nut, without the gasket.



Each stud was then numbered, they were all removed, the gaskets installed, and nuts torqued to 12 pounds



One more task completed. It looks like the fuel system will be on its way home from FIE the end of next week.

GlennLever:
March 12, 2013, 05:49:54 PM

Bought some pulleys for tuning

GlennLever:
March 16, 2013, 01:29:12 PM

Bob Way and I got together this morning and got a couple of things done. Got the parachute unpacked and hung from the ceiling in the basement, exercised the flapper in the fuel tank to try and free it up as the anodize has bound it up, and the big thing is we made a piston stop, and found top dead center on the crank (remember that I no longer have a harmonic balancer). We took are time on this and rechecked our findings many times. TDC is a degree and a half away from one of the ten degree makes on the degree wheel. Too bad it did not work out so that it was right on.

Next weekend should be a big weekend as the fuel system should be back from FIE and can be bolted on!



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