Ella - The 1985 Mexican Bandit

joker 67 wrote:

WizBizMartin wrote:

aint got one of those at mo buddy, the left hand side is fine tail pipe, its the right hand one is is to much to the left, it look like the silencer is touching in the last pics so it mite be that holding it up, the exhast sits quite close the rear brake calipers though ! about an inch or so gap,

thats plenty of space, as the heat is drawn towaords the rear when going foward.

the mex'y bracket looks like you may have to remove this.

i can't remember what they are for as i had one on my mexy bug years ago.


andy

could be a jacking point ( i know ths may sound silly )


done need it anyways

looked good mate. sounds way better now with the new exhaust on it!

Just get it sorted before the weekend!

went in last night to the rollng road place but will be few weeks as he is very busy ,

it's got more of a chance to get done there than on your driveway though.

tango_van wrote:

it's got more of a chance to get done there than on your driveway though.

what you said !!

A few weeks?? I want to get the Notch back out there, but then, he only needs to give it half an hour or so............

you want your settings nailing again dont you which shouldnt take to long,you getting it re done after your exhuast is going on ye , , he's doing a full tune/jetting and check on the motor, relocating oil cooler to above gearbox and new proper oil lines and putting thermostat and mabey a filter in if i buy one, hub seal on offside rear axle thats it ,

I am going to fit my new exhaust next week when the fitting kit arrives. I have also bought an oil cooler too.......hmm, just thought, do I need to get a thermostat I wonder??

dunno, could do as it will warm u quicker, reason i bought one is put 36 hp fanshround on and it doesnt have flaps in it so thought the only other way to get the engine to warm up quicker is to put a thermostat in line on the external oil cooler to allow the oil to warm up quicker, suppose its good on any purpose becasue the external oil cooler is only used when it neeeds to be, so on a cold winters day you mite over cool without a thermo stat, and if its 30 degrees in july the extra cooler will kick in if needed, you could get fan aswell and get that to kick in 10 degrees after the inline oil thermostat aswell, so say the inline oil thermo opens at 60degrees you could get the fan on the oil cooler to kick in at 70Degrees ( example ), i think you can get programable inline thermos to operate the electric fans

I can't run an electric fan dude as I am on 6v, not sure if I can get a thermostat to run via the oil cooler over a certain temperature and just to the remote filter when below.

Just found one on Machine 7......

Mr Scoops wrote:

I can't run an electric fan dude as I am on 6v, not sure if I can get a thermostat to run via the oil cooler over a certain temperature and just to the remote filter when below.

oh no sorry i meant that you run the standard oil cooler when under temperature and the external oil cooler kicks in when needed as the temp gets higher,

Feck me, they can't put that oil cooler there!!!!!!

lol that was me so when i was moving it round it wasnt dragging, had to take it off under the wing so the exhaust would go on

martin, you need one of those lifts in your garage.. would make life way easier when your detail the pan!

went to see chris today to give him the oil filter and mount and see how the bug was going, seems to be going great, chris has jettted them etc , sorted fuel lines out, timing. tappets . rear hub seal and cleaned all the brake out and new plugs etc.

video of it running throught most the vid i had my thumb over the mic so sounds quite .



just needs the oil cooler mount and filter and chris to make some proper lines up and fitting and then finally tune it on the rolling road

https://s417.photobucket.com/albums/pp253/WizBizMartin/?action=view&current=20102009023.flv

good stuff.

bug comes back this monday or tuesday if all goes well ! should be at the meet on friday

also need to find a new oil cooler as the one i had got a pin hole in it somehow recently while it was being set up and tuned etc, looking to mount a low profile wide one mabey at the front like , mabey under the front bumper , sort that out next year lol

i got a remote oil cooler on the frid ....mounted up front on the beam .......


Don't ask me why ? ...it just came like that ......IMO its a stupid idea ...not only do you have really long hoses running under the vehicle right to the front ........but the extra drag on the oil pump is rediculous .........I would try to keep the cooler near the rear as possible if I were you dude

On my Cabrio the oil cooler was mounted above the gearbox.

ye thats where chris was gunna put it but then the oil cooler broke :C , mite have to get mesa one with fan and sort sum ducting out, cross tht bridge next month i think,

New un-used cooler 15 quid here martin

http://retrorides.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=pfsw&action=display&thread=70761