tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-351393722011-07-29T03:41:29.139ZI'm a club racing driver, and this blog records the construction, racing, thrills and spills of running my Genesis EVO in the 750 MotorClub's RGB (Road Going Bike) ChampionshipAdrian M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13888494463595532986noreply@blogger.comBlogger1091100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35139372.post-69302668743596907632008-12-09T20:45:00.005Z2010-01-08T13:33:49.780Z

Those of you that follow my blog will know that I tend to be very "bursty" in terms of the frequency of updates.One of the reasons for this is that I'm short of time so anything that acts as a disincentive means that the updates don't get done.Well the Blogger interface has certainly been acting as a disincentive. It is particularly poor at uploading photos and videos in a timely fashion in the

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It seems class B is going to get busy next year.  Tim, Judy, Rob Grant, Dan Bromilow and  several others are all swapping to class B.   This means that life is going to get much more competitive and I don't really expect to finish as close to the front as I have done this year.This year has been fantastic... we'll see how next year goes  but Idon't expect to win any pots.. Tim is usually at least

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My Genesis seems to be fitted with a Mulching attachement as these shots from my off at the Birkett Show

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The Birkett is a 6 hour endurance relay race run on handicap lines at Silverstone by the 750 Motor Club.  entry is open to teams of between four and six cars and is open to any closed wheel race cars.  As a result we get really esoteric machinery to race against from Radicals and Mallocks, to Se7ens, D/C type Jags, 2CVS and MR2s.. It is such a hoot, and really servers as the end of season party.

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Mallory was the last round of the RGB season,  I went into the round just 3 points behind Neil Constable Berry for third place in the championship.  However short of winning the class, and beating everybody in the field I was unlikely to catch him.  So Mallory was simply a bit of end of season fun really.Qualifying was the most uneventful part of the day, I did however spin on the first lap as I

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Well after the crunch at Silverstone it was time to effect the necessary repairs.As you can see the front of the car was most distinctly second hand.  With a very bent radiator and cowl and a broken and torn front  bodywork section.Now the trick when repairing glass fibre is to have all the bits, then you tape them together at the front, and add new chopped strand mat on the back, with extra

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After a week away on holiday getting rained on in Shropshire, I returned home to get ready for the 750 Motor Club meeting at Silverstone on he 23rd.   As I was already on holiday from work and we were home in good time on the Friday I thought I'd have plenty of time to get ready.  Oh no... a long and diverting game of "B*gg*er I've lost the Keys to the Winnebago" soon meant that as usual Duncan

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This is never going to end well is it?More details tomorrow.Surprisingly after this impact I finished 4th in class and 17th on the road.

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I've never been in a position before where the top of the results table is of any relevance to me. But this year I'm taking a keen interest in the RGB championship.The full current championship table is here :---> RGB POINTS.But I've uploaded a snippet, and as you can I'm riding high at 10th on the table.Now lets not kid ourselves here! Being 10th in the table does not mean that I'm the 10th

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I guess its is a measure of how far I've progressed this season that I can go home with a 2nd place in class B, (which I'm delighted about)... but still be dissapointed with my performance and feel that I wasn't "On it" at Donnington.Anyway the full race report follows.Prior to Donnington I loaded yet another iteration of the modified fuel map to continue the development on this part of the car.

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One of the things I log on my data logger is air\fuel Ratio.  I use an Innovate Motorsports LC-1 wideband lambda sensor and log it to my DL-1 logger at a rate of 100hz.  The Lambda sensor outputs a range of 0-5v based on an air/fuel ratio of 10 -20 AFR.   Therefore in my Dl1 I can derive  the actual AFR ratio using the equation AFR=(v*2)+10.The sensor measures the unburnt oxygen in the exhaust

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As the championship is now getting pretty tight I thought I'd go testing at Cadwell Park before the next RGB double header In Friday testing  I went 3.5 second faster than my previous 1:46.8 Personal Best,  this is some step up from my last visit here in May.  I can't really say I worked up to this as  I did it in in just one session as I parked the car  firmly in the barriers at the hairpin

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I arrived on Saturday Evening, a bit later than hoped due to being diverted through Yaxley as a new footbridge was being hoisted across my route to the A1. On route also discovered, that the Winnebago is only about 3 inches narrower that the Dartford tolls... which makes life interesting.Anyway, after the storming performance at Anglesey I was actually a little concerned about Brands. I've

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It seems that blogger now supports video, so here's a "moment" at Anglesey. The entry on the start/finish straight was problematical all weekend and here is a little clip of when I got it quite a bit wrong.  I distinctly remember thinking "Don't Lift" as I was facing the pit wall as a big weight transfer in this slide would have had me spinning along the wall wiping both ends off the car.One

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Thursday/Friday TestingDuncan and I arrived at around 2am after a pretty long drive across the centre of the country. we simply crashed out until the  following day.  Arriving at night meant we missed all the scenery and the circuit is located in an area of outstanding beauty  I guess we saw it at its best over the weekend. And I'm so pleased that the club got great weather for it's inaugural

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 Well its been two years since I was last at Cadwell but today I achieved a first.... I bought a car home from  Cadwell in one piece :-) breaking my succession of coolant failure, fire and blown engine experiences at this great little circuitThe day was baking hot  >25 deg c, so going out early for practice at 9:50 was a bonus.  I got through scrutineering fine, although this particular scrute

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Following the drive shaft failure at Brands one of the main jobs to do was get some new drive shafts made up... as plainly my Cut N Shut Welded ones weren't up to the job. These I got made up by Jonathan Weston Taylor a fellow 750 MC racer who also runs an engineering business.I sent JWT a sample of the splines and the length required and he turned the new shafts around in about a week.  They

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Simply the best day at a Circuit since the Birkett 06.  And finally some payback for all the garage hours and development work.Friday testing was cold  but the track was dry... It was immediately evident that resolving the fuel issues has made a huge difference, as  have the suspension settings courtesy of Dave T and all the mods over the winter. The car now has pin you back in your seat

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After missing out on racing at Snett, I thought I'd attack the performance problems, and first on the list was getting the thing re mapped on a rolling road.  When I'd fitted the CBR engine fourteen months or so ago I just down loaded from the Internet a high performance fuel map for my Power Commander USB3.   I wondered if the problems with performance were due to this being slightly out.  In

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After the carnage of the chain jumping in testing I didn't have much time to get the car ready for the first race of the season.... so some midnight oil was burned.The other thing Dave Turner does is teach production engineering evening classes and I've been attending "Big Oily Toys Classes" for a while.  so when I examined the diff after the failure at Snett it was obvious that the problem is

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So with the car together, well in advance of the season for once it looked like I was going to make the first race of the season.  I even had time for some pre season testing at Snetterton In Late FebruaryI took along Dave Turner who is a pretty damn good chassis dynamicist (his blog is at http://dynamicist.blogspot.com/)  to help me setup the car.Dave was determined to help me sort out my

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After some gentle reminding, and indeed some firm poking with a sharp stick from various readers of this blog I thought I'd do an update and answer the question "What has been going on?".  Indeed even Tim has been poked on his Blog to get me to update mine ... perhaps some people do pay attention after all :-)So here's a fairly hefty update that will cover (at least in some degree) what has been

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While I've got the Diff unit out of the old cradle, and I'm while working on its mountings I thought I weigh it and see how much the thing weighs. So I dragged the bathroom scales down to the garage (Mrs M had already had a gentle chat about using the kitchen ones :-) ) and shoved the Diff and and reverse starter motor onto them. Total Weight a smidgen under 13Kg. Relative to both the old

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Well after four months of shaking off the disappointment of a season and development cycle wasted , I've decide that I do want to race again, and this year I'm going to be ready for the start of the season. So after finally deciding to abandon the other diff it is time to revert to my old one. I'll lose the swanky engine driven reverse, but there's no point in having a swanky reverse if you

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After the Brands meeting I took the racer to the following meeting a Mallory park in early June. Here again I suffered major overheating problems. Mallory is a lovely short circuit, I qualified last, and in the race I managed to keep with the slower members of class C for a couple of laps but eventually I had to start short shifting again to control the engine temp and lost touch with them. So

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Tim and I use the same data loggers and analog inputs so that we can share our data for comparison purposes. Tim had put together some graphs for comparison between us. My Laptime is 59.xx his was 54. and some change. He's in a class C car with some 40 less horsepower too so lets see where those 6 seconds went. (I'm blue he's the black trace)Click on the graphic to see a more detailed version.The

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Not a great weekend, no major damage, but generally a bit disheartening in how slow Iwas but the car held together with only a few teething problems. Of most concern is it’s lack of straight line speed relative to a much less powerful car (Judy’s) I think it is just too damn heavy and with less power now there is simply nowhere to hide.As a result I’ve decided to cease developmental effort on

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Well the final week before the Test at Brands passed pretty quickly and as usual I never got to do the everything on my to do list. For years I've been making lists about the car to make sure I don't forget stuff and in this respect (as my wife pointed out) I'm like my Mum. We've never visited her without finding an old envelope and a pencil on her kitchen counter with a list of things to on it.

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First up I completed the wiring for the new rainlight that is now required by this year's regulations, OOOOh look a glowing set of LEDS that look almost identical to the last set of glowing LEDS that were fitted there. You'll have spotted a pattern that most of my jobs are now the little things that are requried to meet the RGB series regulations. This is a good sign as it means that I am now

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Well over the last weekend I've got an awful lot done, which is good. but pressure of work means that I'll have to cancel my test at Mallory and test closer to the Brands meeting on the 20th, which is less good, although it does relieve some of the time pressure.No 1 and most importantly I've finally got a complete and working braking system and managed to fit the new 14" alloys to all four

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You know I can always tell when I'm getting towards the end of a build the engine bay starts to look like it has been visited by the NASA fairies, as I finalise the cable and fuel line routing and fit the shiny silver heat protection sleeving.I got most of this work done on Sunday, and also did some preparatory work on the running the fuel and electrical lines from the main bank of injectors to

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The car has today, moved forwards and backwards under it's own steam. Given that I've pretty much completely replaced the engine, transmission, clutch & brakes you can imagine the was a pretty big moment. :-).An added advantage was that at no stage did it sound like a milkfloat and the engagement mechanism will not need adjusting in anyway as a result of other changes to the car. People have

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Last night I remade the gearlinkage by shortening the lever and returning the pivot to its previous position. The need to add an intermediate bell crank to the gear linkage in order to drive the high mounted actuation lever on the box has meant that the lever ratios and travel have changed.The upshot of this is that with lever had a very small "throw" but required a lot of effort to move it (

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A fair amount of progress has been made this weekend. First up Duncan and I refitted the engine following fitting the baffle plate last week. This took a leisurely three hours. Before fitting the engine I took fellow racer Gordon Griffin's advice and eschewed the exhaust heat wrap as nasty horrible & ineffective. In order to protect the fuel tank and my arse on the other side of the bulkhead I

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The saga of my rear handbrake calipers continues. As my paddock buddies are off racing this weekend I'm stuck in the garage fitting brake calipers. The new calipers are really my last option so they better fit.A trial fitting off the caliper inside the rim of the 14" wheel shows that these new callipers don't scrape the inside of the wheel. This is the first success I've had with this piece of

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At last I seem to be taking two steps forward and only one step backwards. Firstly I've fitted the baffle plate to the engine. That was a straightforward if messy process, because there is no such thing as a sump gasket on a CB1000RR and the sump flanges are sealed using blue gasket compound. When you fit a baffle plate you have too make two gooey gaskets (one on each side) in this manner. Still

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The more observant of you may have spotted that the engine bay is now sans engine. One of the (few) benefits of missing the first few meetings is that I can use the data gathered by others also developing CBR1000RR engine installations. The key pieces of information established so far areThe CBR1000 RR swinging sump works effectively but only if fitted with a sump baffle plate.The correct oil

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Well I've returned from holiday keen and eager to make some progress. I have some nice new rear brake disks from Hi spec and so I crack on with a trial fitting. Unfortunately this was as much progress as I was going to make on the callipers. The Wilwood handbrake callipers with the actuation levers on the circumferential edge will simply not fit under the wheels. Aaaagh!So the hi spec handbrake

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That's because for me it doesn't happen very often :-(.Unsurprisingly my brake disks failed to turn up in time for me to trial fit them before I left for holiday, and this caused a realistic evaluation of the amount of work required before the next meeting at Lydden Hill. With no rear brakes, the engine baffle plate to fit, loads of tiding jobs to do and a race transporter with no MOT there is

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Typically when I'm up against a tight deadline fate gives me a gentle kicking. The race bus which has transformed my paddock experience failed it's MOT test today with three pages of failures points.However this I think is worse than it looks.Basically it needs two new front leaf spring hangers and some patches to the rear box section near the rear hangers.Plus a couple of flexible brake hoses,

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I'm really up against it now if I'm going to get the car out at the next meeting at Lydden Hill in Kent. I'm on holiday this week finishing off a few jobs around the house and trying to get the car finishedThe major issue is brakes. The swap to class B and hence to 14"x 6 wheels has caused several problems, not least of which is the modification of brake rotors, brackets and callipers. I've

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Apologies for no updates for a couple of weeks, but a fair bit of progress has been made on the car.Firstly of course Tony Law has completed the fabrication of the exhaust, and typical of TLE it is very nicely fabricated. interestingly they hav opted for a 4-2-1 exhaust rather than the TLE thier collective experience. However if it is wrong it looks eay to convert as only a short link pipe will

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If you read my blog regularly you'll know I'm part of a cummunity of like minded nutters collectively called CAM7 who live and work mostly around Cambridgeshire . Although as with most things related to CAM7 this is not a hard and fast rule. (If you're brave you can subsrcibe to the mailing list at http://mailman.se7ens.net/mailman/listinfo but you better have an asbestos inbox!)Several of us

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With the car away at Tony Law's being exhausted there is not much I can be getting on with. So this dead time is really frustrating with the season already underway.So We've been getting on with a few odds and sods jobs.Firstly Duncan and I have been doing a bunch of fibreglassing. Duncan laid up some new mounting flanges for the base of the airbox so that the new floor panel and injectors can

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Last weekend I watched the first race of the RGB season at Mallory Park nr Leicester.It was great to meet all my racing mates again and there was much paddock ribbing from various members of the community about the fact that I had a perfectly good working race car but I've taken it apart ...again!Which is all fair comment and was taken in good heart!I was particulary pleased to see the novice

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While waiting for the brake disks and other parts to arrive, I've been trying get on with some other useful stuff. First on the list was finalising the installation of the bike clocks on the steering column. This took a while, but now gives me a nice clear view of the instruments without them smacking into my knees when turning corners. For my secondary instruments including oil and water temp,

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Duncan and I, spent most of today resolving the problems of calliper fit and alignment. The output of our labours is shown here.No this isn't the quest for weight saving gone mad using a perspex steering arm and a wooden calliper mount would be a bit daft eve n for me. :-)No this is prototyping a solution for the front brakes, using materials that are easy to machine and fashion into shape using

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W ell another week passes and still I don't have drive shafts. I'm beginning to think that I will certainly miss the first two races of the season and my first outing will be the double header at Lydden Hill in April. Still missing races does save me money but while I like making and fixing things in the garage I also like the camaraderie of the paddock and fun of racing. Hmmph.Anyway, the major

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Andy Bates at AB Performance has sent me the mounting plates for the CBR1000s intake trumpets and extenal injectors. I'll use the lower plate (pictured here) as the base for my modification to the cars airbox. I was going to use the upper plate as well but when I weighed it it was close to a 3/4 of a Kilo. The upper plate only supports the injectors, but these are already supported by a

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The new laser cut 8mm NS4 alluminium differential mounting plates turned up from Peterborough Laser cut today. so this weekend was spent mounting the diff in it's final position. Here I must credit Dave Turner a mate from Cam7 who spent a lot of time refining my original diff mounting plates drawings. Dave performed a bunch of finite element an analysis (FEA) on these mounting plates. His work

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Time is rapidly running out now. So it is imperative I crack on with the car. So this weekend I got the entire cooling system completed. As part of this process I cut the center out of the thermostat. I couldn't remove it completely as it has the rubber sealing ring that stops the thermostat housting leaking around its circumference. Cutting just the center out also leaves a slighly restricted

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The new shear plate turned up from Peterborugh LaserCut who did a great job, except that between us we managed to miss the fact that the drawing I sent them was not at a 1:1 scale . Therefore what they sent me was a perfect 75% scale model of the shear plate I actually needed. In fairness to them they corrected the mistake at no extra charge but I couldn't collect it for a few days, so it

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This weekend I did still more dull dull wiring but I think that I'm pretty much there now. I managed to complete the following.Signal wiring to the bike clocks for the main beam and indicators , plus oil pressure and coolant temp warning LEDs.Wiring for throttle pot, coolant temp, oil pressure and oil temp to the DL1Removed the remnants of the old ZX12 management loom and ECU.Connect the Tacho

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Well, its now mid January, and the racing season is rapidly advancing towards me.In the last two or three weeks I've made a significant amount of progress in lots of areas, but there is still much to do if I'm going to make the first race in early March. The major achievement of the last couple of weeks is that I've completed the initial mouting of the new differential. Unfortunately I've had to

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It's been a couple of weeks since my last post, as I've been away trying to do myself in by strapping a couple of planks to my feet and chucking myself down a french Alp. However, we're back home now and I've been able to make a bit of progress on the car in the Christmas-New Year Lull.Basically today I've just about finished splicing the engine management loom into the beastie. I think you'll

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So it’s been a few days since my last update and in this time I’ve made significant progress in fitting the new engine. The mounts have been finalized, trimmed down and fully braced up with strengthening gussets. This may seem a bit of overkill, but experience has shown that the high frequency vibration from the bike engine can the welds. Lastly they were painted up. They are fairly sturdy

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I felt I got a lot done this weekend. Firstly I got the engine mounted up and loosely fitted in place. I say “loosely” because none of the mounting bolts is yet fitted with a nut and tightened up. Nonetheless the engine feels rock solid in the chassis. Which is very pleasing.So with the engine position finalized I could now start working on the major connections to it. First on this list was the

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Well a day spent in the garage has resulted in the engine mounts being almost completed. I've fabbed up the right hand mount. This one I decided to make in a single piece, without the necessity for a central bolt as it doesn't have the nearby waterpipe obstruction that hampered the left hand mount.Here it is in it's 95 % complete form. I just need to trim off the excess material and fit a

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Only time to spend an hour or so in the garage last night, but that was just about time enough to finish the engine mount for one side (well bodge up the first go and then finish the second one properly). It is finished all except for a small gusset to stabilise the joint, it is within a mm or so of my desired dimension so not a bad effort really in controlling heat distortion from welding.Now

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Well after a night to contemplate my engine mounting choices I made a few decisions The engine will be hard mounted... it is quite a long way from the perimeter of the chassis so I'm hoping it will be OKI'm going to externally bridge across the two mounts on each end of the cylinder head to distribute the loads across them.The front mounts will be triangulated to the existing mounting ears if

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The CRB 1000RR is in the chassis, well when I say "in" I really mean "resting in" the chassis. It's not in any way connected to the chassis but it is within the perimiter of the chassis rails.I started off the day by cutting out the main rear cross braces, it transpires that these tubes are actually only 18guage wall thickness, and can be cut quite easily using just a hack saw. Along with the

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Today I spent a couple of hours cleaning down a generally getting the engine bay ready to have the new engine fitted. This involved large quantities of solvent and whole roll of workshop paper and much cr4p under my fingernails. However the engine bay is now pretty clean and non slimey to the touch. Which will make working in there much easier and should also improve the quality of the impending

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Well did I get the new engine fitted to the car? Did I 'eck as like. I spent most of the dayclearing out an entire seasons worth of junk from the garage including the remaing bits of my previously killed ZX12r which the bloke at the dump was somewhat surprised to see arriving in his skip. I also transferred my tools back into into their winter storage in the garage where they are much more

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I've collected my loan differential and swinging sump from Nova engineering so I thought I'd post a couple of pictures. The differential has been a bit of a TV star before when it was used on in the Discovery series "Kit Car Crisis" where a guy was building a car to come and race ion RGB.Unfortunately the series didn't show Kit car building in a very good light and mainly served to highlight some

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I've spent the day stripping and weighing the car I wanted some solid metrics against which I can measure the changes I plan to make to the car this winter.Remember, I'm taking the slightly odd decision to have less power in my racer, as this will allow me to step down a class, and hopefully lose a lot of weight from the car which in turn will make me more competative in Class B.So having

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Team Genesis came 8th on the road in the Birkett!There are a bunch of Photos at Isadora Poggis' site which far better explain the concept of the Birkett than any prose I can write here. It is a unique event in uk motoracing and if you ever get a chance to compete or watch it I heartily recommend that you go along. Just remember when you are looking at the pictures that all those teams were on the

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I've scanned in a couple of pics of the new chassis. They are fairly poor quality I'm afraid as the paper copies roamed around in my trouser pockets for a while. However you can clearly see the construction method for the new chassis.

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Today I did my pre race checks for next weekends 6 hour relay race at Silverstone. For those of you not familiar with the Holly Birkett relay it is basically a 6 hour endurance race for teams of 4 or more drivers. It runs just like the the Le MAn race in that it starts at 11am finishes at 5pm exactly and whoever does the most laps wins!Unlike Le Man though it is open to any sort of closed wheel

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Today my nice shiny new CBR1000 RR engine turned up from Malc at Yorkshire engines. Very new looking it is too. It looks like an American spec engine as it seems to be fitted with the standard American emissions control systems.Along with it also arrived the CBR 10000 clocks which contain a very nice sweep tacho, and I’l be finding a way to incorporate this into the racer instead of the

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I spent much of the day today doing preparation for the Birkett relay race in two weeks time, we have a set of team orders that requires such things as external battery hookups for start\boost batteries and general things like labels for tyre pressure and so on.I also finally got round to fitting a gurney flap to the back bodywork, I’ve only been trying to get this job done for 2 years but it has

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Today I popped over to see Nova Engineering. And had a good chat with Graeme about the CBR 1000 RR swinging sump system that I'll be using next year. A couple of useful pieces of information emerged. The first is that he would really like to be able to identify the sump pickup position during use this would require some sort of remote sensing application that watched the position of the pickup

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I've just a very fruitful visit to my local engineering company Nova Race Gearboxes. I found them while looking for a billet sump system for the CRB1000RR The owner is such a racing enthusiast so we spent a long time chatting about his Jedi racing and my RGB racing.We also spent a good deal of time chatting about a CBR1000 swinging sump system he is developing, and his ATB equipped diff with

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Today I went the the RGB meeting at Snetterron. I wasn't racing as I'd decided to skip it to save the engine for The Birkett in three weeks time. I love watching clubman racing as its so entertaining due to the different skill levels. Experienced old hands + novice new boys in their first racesI also picked up the front 3 bulkheads for the new chassis. From Tim Pell. Looking at the picture I

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The 2007 regs draft regs have now been publish on the RGB community website www.bikecars.co.uk. One key change in the regs for next year has been to Class B, which is now being defined as allowing Mid Engined cars and any engine under 1000CC. Crucially however the min weight limit for both A and B is the sameThis is important because up until this year all Mid engined cars like mine had to race

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The more observant of you may well have noticed that my site has not had an update in a very long time, this has been due to a number of reasons, but primarily it has been due to the fact that I was hand cranking the site in Frontpage. This was difficult and clunky and meant that I had to use the same computer to update the site as Frontpage uses a classis publishing model". Now with two growing

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I've had a very busy week with some long days so I haven't had either the time or inclination to do much to the car. But the many hours I spent hacking up and down the motorways have given me time to think up a solution for my oil feed problem. Two possible solutions in fact.Option 1. I've had Pace send me a couple of short lengths of bent tube, 2 weld on -10 male fittings and a steel mounting

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I've been very busy this week and so haven't had much of a chance to get anything done on the car. However I have been collecting the necessary bits and pieces to fit the engine to the car.So today was the day ... it's time to get the engine in. Tim had kindly delivered his hoist last weekend so it's all systems go.First job was to fit the exhaust mounting brackets to the headers. Tim Pell had

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I've noted the start up procedure that Pace gave me over the phone here as at least this way I'll be able to find it when the time comes.Check all hoses, bolts and unions for tightness. Clean dry sump tank to ensure no manufacturing debris will be introduced into the oil. Fill dry sump tank until level with top baffle Wind out oil pressure adjuster on the Pace pump until the spring tension is

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OK with the sump pan fitted it's time to fit the external combined scavenge and high pressure pump. There are two separate scavenge pumps (these have cranked steel pipes sealed with masking tape) and a single high pressure stage whose input is sealed with a red cap. All the inputs are on the bottom of the pump and the two out puts are on the top. To the far right of the pump is the pressure

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Step one, first remove the bike engine from the the car and place on sturdy clean bench. My ZX12R was nestling in the engine bay of the EVO, and unfortunately I didn't have a hoist to hand. So after a Worlds Strongest Man moment when I hefted the engine out of the car and onto the bench I was ready to start work. Do Not do this! These engines weigh 80+ Kilos and lifting them single handed is not

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I've given fitting the dry sump kit a series of posts as Pace have asked if they can point other ZX12R dry sump buyers to these pages. I've also been asked by several people on the Bike Cars mailing list for details of it's installation. Therefore these pages will be quite graphically intense and so may take a while to load I'm afraid. Sorry about that.Firstly I should say that this is an A1

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Today I spent most of the day getting the Blue Genesis ready to be sold. This included hoovering it out, refitting the passenger seat, and replacing the hydraulic brake light switch. I've been having to hit the brakes harder and harder before the warning lights come on so I thought the switch was failing. As this involves unscrewing it from the brake lines I then had to bleed the rear brakes, all

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Pace have today finally delivered my dry sump kit, it consists of a 3 stage pump (2 scavenge & 1 pressure) and a very nicely machined billet sump. They have also supplied a dry sump tank. The output from the pressure stage feeds the engine through it's existing oil pick up tube in the sump, so the number of external connections are kept to a minimum. I'll post some more details when I've had a

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I spent a fair bit of time today fitting the battery, starter solenoid, FIA switch and wiring. These were all removed when the old loom was taken out and it was now time to reuse what I could of the old installation, and P clip it all neatly in place. Pictures will follow.The other thing that I did was to move the main 30 and 40 amp loom fuses to a much more accessible location. They were

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Well after the conclusion of the "The Big Tidy" and having been given firm "promises" by both Pace and Hi-Spec that both the dry sump and clappers will be delivered in the next 10 days, it's time to crack on with the car again!So with my tools easily locatable and some extra space in the Garage as the Blue Genesis is still away, I set off to try and get all the outstanding jobs on the offside of

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There's not been an update to the website for 10 days or so, mainly because there has not been very much going on on the car, I've been away quite a lot working and neither Pace nor HI-Spec have delivered the parts that are really beginning to get very urgent now.However, what has happened is that my Blue Genesis has been away for a week getting some minor respray work done on the front so that

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Well I had a very interesting day at Donnington today, I had a good chat with several of the RGB boys and the racing was very entertaining.... these things are so fast!Tim Harmer won the RGB race yesterday by a country mile in his Genesis EVO Mk II, after qualifying in pole position with a time 2.4 secs clear of the field and an AVERAGE speed of 90+ Mph, Blimey! The start was quite interesting as

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Today In the couple of hours I had spare before going to fit some new taps in my Mum's kitchen I welded up this bit of ali pipework. It's the top hose connector that links the coolant pipes at the side of the car to the radiator at the front, all I need to do now is too drill and tap the bleed boss on the top and then it can be fitted. My ali welding seems to be improving :-)Although I am a

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Today I talked to both Hi-Spec and Pace and basically the delays continue. Pace apparently are working all the hours god sends to try and catch up and I might get my dry sump next week, but the promised 3 week lead time for their dry sump system is now approaching 7 weeks. And in the wonderful make believe world of Hi-Spec "We'll call you back" actually translates as "We'll ignore you

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Today was a very good day, I completed several jobs that have been hanging around for a while. I didn't get every thing done that I had planned, but then I never do.... still it was a very productive day.First up was to complete the handbrake installation. I connected the calliper to the pull cable using an M6 bolt and a nylock nut, and then repositioned and adjusted the cable in it's mounting

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My replacement front uprights have just been delivered, shiny objects of desire they are too, with no visible cracks and nice chunky mounting points for the callipers. I shall feel much more confident with these than I ever would have with the old ones.A quick visit to the bathroom scales shows them to weigh 2Kg each, it will be interesting to see how much more or less they weigh than the old

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Tonight, I only had about an hour to get something done on the car. So I set about doing a trial installation of the newly modified handbrake calliper.Step one was to weld the actuation lever that I broke last weekend, 10 minutes with my trusty MIG welder resulted in this which I've also sprayed with chassis black paint. The cranked lever should nor clear the mounting bracket nicely. I then

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Today my Mini Wheel studs turned up, they are of the correct length but very slightly oversize in diameter, in that while the threaded section of each stud will fit through the mounting holes in the handbrake calliper the shank will not. So I eased the holes a bit in the drill press using a 10mm drill and also put a shallow countersink in the mounting face to take the head of the stud.Now the

Adrian M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13888494463595532986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35139372.post-1159967797827823072004-03-09T13:15:00.000Z2006-11-13T13:53:35.020Z

I've had a brainwave about my calliper mounting bolt problem. While doing the 3 hour drive to the office I was musing on the problem of finding a bolt with a very narrow head that would allow me to clear the drive chain. And then I had a light bulb above the head moment... What I need is not a bolt but a wheel stud. Wheel studs have a very shallow but wide cap instead of a bolt head and are

Adrian M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13888494463595532986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35139372.post-1159966537813544612004-03-06T12:29:00.000Z2006-11-13T13:53:34.487Z

Firstly here is a picture of the of the new dashboard taken in the daylight. I'm not sure you can see much more detail than the night time pictures above, but you do get a better impression of how it nestles neatly under the lip of the front bodywork.Right on with the day's work.I had such plans for today but commitments elsewhere reduced my available time substantially so much so that I only

Adrian M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13888494463595532986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35139372.post-1159967666995403302004-03-04T12:53:00.000Z2006-11-13T13:53:34.737Z

Today I had one aim. I was going to complete one system on the car, I was going to get one entire system finished and operational so that I could say I had completed something and that the build was progressing, just one system. (Dammit Tim has already got the engine in on his Fireblade Fury!).And that system was going to be?........ The handbrake :-)The handbrake operates via single Willwood

Adrian M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13888494463595532986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35139372.post-1159964871920924882004-03-04T12:21:00.000Z2006-11-13T13:53:34.250Z

I've spent many, many hours in the last few evenings wiring up the dash. It does seem to have taken an enormous amount of time, just to make a few electrical connections. Anyway here it is, all the major circuits are now connected, all that's left to do are the sensor circuits for the Digidash and the extinguisher. The circuits terminate at multi way connectors, which while they add weight

Adrian M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13888494463595532986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35139372.post-1159964480825290592004-03-03T12:19:00.000Z2006-11-13T13:53:33.979Z

Today I talked to Tim Pell regarding the cracked front upright, The uprights are custom made and machined up to his design (which sounds ominously expensive) but Tim does have a couple of them on the shelf, he'll check up how much they cost and then ring me back with a price. The downside is that the calliper mounts are different as the new MKII Evo uses radial rather than lug mounted

Adrian M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13888494463595532986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35139372.post-1159820128131654952004-02-28T20:08:00.000Z2006-11-13T13:53:33.759Z

My other two Superleggies turned up on thursday, and despite requiring a signature on delivery Mr Link Express just left them parked outside my house (I was doing the school run). Luckily (for him) they were still there when I got home.Well I've had my shiny new RIMs fitted with the A048rs that are mandatory for the RGB series, I've gone for 195/55/R15s for the fronts but on the advice of

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Mr Link Express has just delivered 2 of my Super Leggaras. Shiny shiny things of beauty they are and not as black as their "Anthracite" name would imply.They do seem really very light indeed and the bathroom scales confirm that they come in at between 4 & 5 Kilos per corner. Nice..... very nice indeed.

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