The Front end is largely built, needs a couple of supports for the lower shock mounts, the top triple made and a few other odds and ends.
Started laying the major components out on the table and fixing them into position.
The exhaust spigots have been tacked together and fitted to give us an idea where the frame rails can run. Made a start on the front engine mounts and side wheel axle support.
Fitted a stock RD cylinder and new Chinese cylinder to a stock engine case to work out the port timing and how the ports need to be adjusted.
The Chinese cylinders are made to the Ranjoot specs and from all accounts the performance of the Ranjoot was pretty abysmal. The exhaust gasket cut outs in the cylinders was also not concentric and the flanges need a lot of filing to get them to fit nicely. Luckily I was aware of this problem when I drew out the flanges for water jet cutting.
Started laying the major components out on the table and fixing them into position.
The exhaust spigots have been tacked together and fitted to give us an idea where the frame rails can run. Made a start on the front engine mounts and side wheel axle support.
Fitted a stock RD cylinder and new Chinese cylinder to a stock engine case to work out the port timing and how the ports need to be adjusted.
The Chinese cylinders are made to the Ranjoot specs and from all accounts the performance of the Ranjoot was pretty abysmal. The exhaust gasket cut outs in the cylinders was also not concentric and the flanges need a lot of filing to get them to fit nicely. Luckily I was aware of this problem when I drew out the flanges for water jet cutting.