April 15th Edition

Well, we wrapped up the wiring for the most part since the last post, as wires aren’t particularly photogenic, not to much to show:

Here’s the dashboard installed, kinda the main junction point, where everything comes together.

The main harness from the dash runs down to just above the oil tank, where wiring splits off to ignition, brake/tail light, and the idiot lights. The electronic voltage regulator will also mount here, but isn’t finished as yet. You can easily see the 12 volt gell cell and if you look closely, the circuit breaker that ties the battery minus to ground.

We also did some work on engine assembly the last couple of days. Finished the modifications to the supply oil pump, adding 2 additional vanes to double the oil flow;

Adding the second slot for rotor vanes; Carbide cutter, the rotor is case hardened.

The finished rotor in place;

And…

Making the spider that will hold the vane springs in place. yes, that’s a finishing nail, nothing but hi tech here

Two nails about to be soldered together….

The nails soldered together, trimmed to size, and the stock springs shortened to fit. without the Nail-spider to hold the springs in place, there’s no way to get springs and vanes to play together nicely!

The vanes and springs with spider just prior to inserting into the rotor and pump body. The Vanes are too long when you have four of them meeting in the middle of the rotor. So, you mill a small amount, approx .020” so that they won’t meet in the middle and bang into each other. Gee, “ how did you figure that out Dick?” H’mm, maybe error and trial? :-)

Just a teaser here. We took a shot of the interior of the cam chest showing all those nice cleaned up gears waiting for cover to be installed. The red stuff is assembly lube, keep stuff from hurting itself on initial startup.