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At last ! The adapter coupling has
now been made and mates nicely both with the stub shaft
and the rotor gear, which now of course is acting
as a spline.
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Vid Cap of the
first starter test run,
an excellent result. In the video you can just see
the soft start coil glowing red hot, this is just above
the fuel filter at the bottom, this will have to be replaced
at
some time for a more heavy
duty
coil. The video can be found here. ( Starter
Test Run)
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Back to the electrics.
I have hunted high and low to find a connector to fit
on the viper, but to no avail, so I have decided that
I would make my own. I found in my bits chest a suitable
male
& female connector pair and mounted the male fitting
to a metal kit box, I then fixed the box to the
vipers bracket.
I
then soldered the wires at the rear to the vipers terminals.
Its a bit bodgy but
at least I can still disconnect the control panel if
needed and it works a treat.
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Improvised connector
assembly in place and happily wired up. |
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Control Panel finished and ready
to go.
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Internal view
of the wiring.
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Hmm, the starting fuel and fuel
reset valves are not working? lets have a look then.
Hmm some plonker seems to have damaged the connectors.
At least I know what the fault is and after a bit of
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I had the first
proper self sustained test run today and I'm chuffed
to bits that all worked ok. However when we were
priming the engine before the run, I noticed that
there was an oil leak from between the oil pump and
the casing, I sorted this out by making a new sealing
gasket which speedily resolved the issue. A video of
the test can be found on the media page.
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Its time that
the Viper was made totally mobile, so work was started
on the battery mounts. The 2 larger battery's
provide starting power only, whilst the 2 smaller motorcycle
battery's provide power to the control and igniter box's. All
this fitting nicely to the underside of the engine.
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As you may have
seen from the video of the 1st viper starter motor test,
the uptake was a little
slow, until the 2nd stage kicked in, consequently I
decided to upgrade
all the power cables to 0 gauge and fit a higher current
soft start resistor. After another test run the starter
seems to be working perfectly.
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Then I was on
to Derek at Alumacraft to
make me a 12 gallon custom fuel tank, as seen in the
picture. For now
I am going to
rely on temporarily pressurising the fuel tank to prime
the HP pump, this saves me having to install a LP priming
pump
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Maybe this would be a good use for
the Viper?
The story continues here |
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| A little bit of TV featuring the running
of the Viper. |
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