Nigel Clark Posted April 15, 2020 Report Share Posted April 15, 2020 It lives! Well done. Nigel 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jiggawhat2k Posted April 16, 2020 Report Share Posted April 16, 2020 11 hours ago, yorkshire_spam said: It runs, but my attempts to video the first fire up failed, and when I did manage to video the second fire up the sound is totally out of sync with the video. I think I'm better with old Triumphs than I am with video cameras. (Think I fixed the video/audio issue!) Sounds excellent! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Lewis Posted April 16, 2020 Report Share Posted April 16, 2020 back on the road soon brilliant feeling when it all comes together Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yorkshire_spam Posted April 16, 2020 Author Report Share Posted April 16, 2020 @Nigel Clark, @jiggawhat2k, @Pete Lewis thanks chaps! It feels like a real milestone moment for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clive Posted April 16, 2020 Report Share Posted April 16, 2020 Will it be on the next 10CR? (whenever that is. All I know is we will be there!) Good to see people are being much more productive than me during this time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Jones Posted April 16, 2020 Report Share Posted April 16, 2020 Good job 🙂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yorkshire_spam Posted April 16, 2020 Author Report Share Posted April 16, 2020 Thanks @Nick Jones, @clive. First time I've built an engine fromt he block up and it fired up without too much trouble once I sorted the ignition timing. 🙂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Jones Posted April 16, 2020 Report Share Posted April 16, 2020 Anxiety and triumph then 🙂 For me the anxiety lasts about a thousand miles, and by then I reckon it’ll be ok. Nick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigel Clark Posted April 16, 2020 Report Share Posted April 16, 2020 21 minutes ago, Nick Jones said: Anxiety and triumph then 🙂 For me the anxiety lasts about a thousand miles, and by then I reckon it’ll be ok. Nick Same here, but the anxiety peaks for me when first turning the key on a new engine. We only do it for the adrenaline rush! Nigel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Lindsay Posted April 16, 2020 Report Share Posted April 16, 2020 7 minutes ago, Nigel Clark said: Same here, but the anxiety peaks for me when first turning the key on a new engine. We only do it for the adrenaline rush! Nigel I've just turned the key on a completely rewired dashboard and steering column in the GT6, and the anxious wait for smoke was nail-biting... but it seems to be okay so far. I'm putting off rebuilding the newly-bored Herald engine until after this lockdown thingy, when someone more experienced can look over my shoulder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yorkshire_spam Posted April 16, 2020 Author Report Share Posted April 16, 2020 46 minutes ago, Nick Jones said: Anxiety and triumph then 🙂 For me the anxiety lasts about a thousand miles, and by then I reckon it’ll be ok. Nick The last engine work I did was a bottom end rebuild and re-fit cylinder head when this engine died on the 2015 border Raiders... I managed a bit of local testing but it's first major run was the 2015 10CR! I spent the first two days "bricking it" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigel Clark Posted April 16, 2020 Report Share Posted April 16, 2020 14 minutes ago, Colin Lindsay said: I've just turned the key on a completely rewired dashboard and steering column in the GT6, and the anxious wait for smoke was nail-biting... but it seems to be okay so far. I'm putting off rebuilding the newly-bored Herald engine until after this lockdown thingy, when someone more experienced can look over my shoulder. Yeah, that's another high blood pressure moment! Nigel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yorkshire_spam Posted April 17, 2020 Author Report Share Posted April 17, 2020 Fired it up again last night, I'm really happy with how it runs on such a basic tune-up. Tick-over nice at about 800 rpm, a little lumpy in places, but I've yet to fine tune the ignition timing and the carbs will need setting up again for this engine. Couple of minor issues: Water leaks - at the back of the water pump (pipe that runs behind the manifold) and the bottom hose. Exhaust blowing - my Frankenstein's monster bitsa exhaust system needs taking off, joints cleaning and properly reassembling instead of just shoving it on and hoping for the best. Something to do this weekend! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Jones Posted April 17, 2020 Report Share Posted April 17, 2020 After a full rebuild of my PI engine anxiety number one was the first fire up. That went ok.... Did about 1000 miles pottering about, with a bit of EFI mapping. Rolling road session raised the anxiety levels a fair bit as it got a good ragging. That went ok, even very decent numbers. Then, just a week later, a Club Triumph HCR. 1127 miles door to door in about 30 hours. I gave up worrying about half way through that, after 25 minutes at a sustained speed more suited to a German autobahn...... running it close to the half way deadline ..... again. Funnily enough, final running in (aka high speed soak test) of the Vitesse new engine happened in much the same way, just on the M40 rather than the A1....... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yorkshire_spam Posted April 19, 2020 Author Report Share Posted April 19, 2020 It's one of those good news/bad news days. Good news, started dialing in the tuning and it's progressing nicely. Bad news, nasty intermittent rattly knock at about 2500 rpm. I'll check the obvious stuff but it might be "take the engine back out again" time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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