Ohhhhh dont we be looking!! Just spotted that now actually, I had a feeling you were hinting at something....had to check it out...
brian its worth a look here too, most of the bits are cheaper and a wider range of bits for sell http://polevolt.co.uk/acatalog/Terminals_for_Connector_Housings.html http://polevolt.co.uk/acatalog/Terminals_for_Special_Applications.html for some reason the larger JT connectors for the CE2 fusebox are located here, i.e. the large size pins for the starter feed etc (3-2050): http://polevolt.co.uk/acatalog/Modular_Fuse_and_Relay_System.html
It crossed my mind John... ... Bench top injection moulding machines are easy made, but I think thats taking the **** altogether
Stop stop stop stop stop, Ill NEVER get this finished. Im having thoughts about it now, but I really cant seriously, I mean really, ... ..
Got a new 6'' burr for doing cylinder head, its pretty aggressive for roughing out, And installed megasquirt software to pc, Im pretty happy with how it all looks and feels so far, its great having full control on everything, I cant wait to start into the electrics side of things also, Hope to get a lot done tomorrow in the line of making more swarf. Located alloy for my new flywheel also Brian,
More doings, mainly concentrating on the cylinder head, tackled it the weekend as it was annoying me looking at it in all its filth I wont bore you all describing every cut, but if anyone wants to know anything just shout, most of this is just roughing work first, The head, Some of the tools, Driver for knocking out valve guides, Incase you dont know height, they sit 61.5mm from head surface when installed, they need to go back in at this installed height, Out, Spring seats removed, Cap studs have to come out, locked two nuts on there and out with them, Broken stud, wd40 and heat, Farmers tool box used to remove Cleaned off intake/ex face so I can see what Im at,
Ports blued and marked for raising, Tool fitted to grinder, I always slip on an old valve guide on there, means you can hold stem, and leave it against port mouth for deep cuts/leverage, Grinding down to guide line so I can start, Guide boss roughed down, You can see the difference now, I like to do all four in stages together, saves swapping burrs, etc, Port angle check, This will be raised a bit when Im done(scribe line) Started the Titanium retainers also, I roughed down the bar and did a drawing, Ill be doing more of this later, Someone asked does Titanium swarf burn, yup, it does, heres some swarf with a lighter held to it for a few seconds, light cuts to be taken only, otherwise your machine will go up in a blaze... Working on the short side radius, Port raised to scribe line, And more grinding/blending, Tool change, I have to recheck all measurements before I start putting a finer finish on port and tidying it in a few places. Ill then go onto the seat and seat area, Brian,
Great info as always... What is your plan for installing the valveguides again? Pressing them in, or driving, or?
I normally press them in, I leave them in the freezer overnight first, It probably makes little odds, But it makes me feel better Never had a failure doing it this way yet.
Got the mock bore done. I made one of these before to use when doing the turbulence test with great results, cutting it from the block deck I had made things easier in that I can bolt it to the head instead of using silicone or clips to hold it on there, you'll see why this is needed in the next update, I bored it to 84.10 also, the same size as the my block which Ill be fitting the head to. Chop chop, (again!) Faced, Turned around, Faced and bored, Cleaned on the outside to get a pipe on there, Offered up More later, Brian,
Well today the grille badge that I just bought for the Gti got whipped, I dont know when exactly it was taken, but Ive a fair idea, I had the car left for 2hrs parked and when I came back it was gone. Gti badges are pretty mad money, and I didnt really feel like forking out a second time so this all came about. The car missing its badge really, really, annoyed me, so I set about fixing that straight away, before I did anything else in the engine department, I found a pic exactly to scale on the screen, Im not great with resizing stuff with printers and anything I print always ends up 25% smaller, so out came the tracing paper and sellotape, yup, traced it off the screen Transferred to 6mm alloy plate, and cut out with a coping saw, Tidied up with the files a bit, Milling the spaces between letters on the lathe, 5mm cutter, Milled, Sharp edges removed, and buffed, Done bar a bit more waterpapering and anodizing, and Ill also give it the brushed look on letter faces before I do, Ill epoxy on a little locating bracket on the rear then, Man I was ****ed off, but how and ever, crisis averted, Ill throw it on tomorrow, Brian,
Got it polished up ready for anodizing, 600, then 1200, then final with 2000 left on a cloth to give the rounded eased look, all paper used wet. Im going to go over the low milled spots with 600 dry, to give them a mat look, and leave the letters then more highly polished, as for mounting it, Im not sure yet, a little alloy bracket and some epoxy Id say. Hardest damn thing to photo in the whole thread so far with all the glare, but you get the idea. Material is 6061 T6 aluminium(American spec) 0r 6082 T6 (European spec) Brian,
I think it's horrible and you should never, ever stick that on your car, you should send it to me so it will be defacing my car instead... what? well, can't blame a man for trying. [:^(]
ok so.... . sure send me on your address So today when I was looking for a bit of alloy to make some sort of bracket for Gti badge I found a scrap bit of billet thrown in the pile, I haven't a clue what this is off, or what it was for/doing there, but I spotted it was a perfect size for something else....... .. My car had a horrid black VW centre badge fitted which I wanted rid of in the near future, I grew up worshipping chrome and all shiny car things so painting chrome stuff black, or refitting black items in they're place makes no sense to me AT ALL! The billet in question, the centre bit was pressed in so I pressed it out and began machining... I chose to design the badge as a muti piece affair, this is the outer ring first, The steps for letters, Turned around and the face machined flat The tapered recess, Slight taper and round on the front ring(hard to see) Waterpapering, same as letters above, Done! Letters nearly done also, hope to fit sometime later once I anodize the lot, Brian!
