Friday, 25 April 2008

Pimp my starter cart

Next weekend (3rd, 4th & 5th May) sees the next round in the ACU Championship at Shakespeare County Raceway. It's come around pretty quick, this time next week I'll need to be ready to set off.
The latest entry list can be seen HERE
Competition bike has 8 entries so far, very few of which were at the Easter event, so most of them I'm unfamiliar with.
CB1 Philip Leamon Wokingham Leamon Bros Vehvac Special 1290cc
CB4
Alan Young Wokingham, Berks 1300cc
CB9
Stuaut Crane Sheringham Warpspeed Racing 1428cc
CB16 Phil Crossley Heysham The bopchop 1260cc
CB18 Ivan Birch Hailsham Ignorance with conviction 3 1570cc
CB20 David Buttery Boston 1428cc
CB21 Fiona Moor Matlock 1260cc
CB22 Andrew Fawcett Preston 1340cc

I sent my signed ACU license form off a couple of days ago, so I'm hoping that i get my full National license back before next weekend.
I've been trying to resist temptation to change things on the bike. I decided however to separate the fuel system for the carbs from the nitrous system. The petrol tank has 2 outlets anyway so i've dedicated one to the carbs and one to Nitrous. This should help fuel flow once i do start using the NO2. I added a large inline fuel filter too to help keep the system clean.

I had a problem with the offboard starter last weekend, in that it decided to get stuck in the on position. The only way to get it to stop spinning was to disconnect it from the battery. A clout from a hammer gets it unstuck so we had to carry a hammer around on the cart just in case it did it again. I had a look at the solenoid and because it's fairly worn it's created a recess where the copper contacts touch, and this is where they've been welding themselves together. So I removed the lip, cleaned up all the surfaces and lightly greased the mechanism. Hopefully thats cured it for a while at least. Other than that all I've done is bling-ed up the starter cart with a metallic blue paint job and some stickers... well funky!

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