More engine running video

Fire up and running video of engine.

Fire up!!

Finally the engine is alive! the recent weeks have been really busy at work, leaving not so much time for hobbing and delaying the fire up. But at last the final bits were assembled and after a few mods to the fly wheel the engine run for first time.

The progress from the previous post have only been a new flywheel and the preliminary exhaust manifold. As you can see the engine is fixed in a very crudely manner, which will be changed to make it safer to operate and extra stuff around it (gas tank, etc) properly secured. Obviously the white cable will go away too.

I will make a better and longer video and post it after everything is adjusted. It is mainly tuning the carburettor settings to achieve the full performance that hopefully is in it.

Progress

Almost there! just last checking to do and all will be set for the first fire up!





The spark plug was tested with quite nice results as shown, and for sure the spark will be powerful
enough to ignite the fuel-air mixture.

Another development was the assembly of the carburettor inlet onto the engine head. This part is made in RP (Rapid prototyping). In particular, the material of choice is RP SLS Carbon, and was outsourced. The cost was £23 for 1 off.