Milwaukee Midget

[Tman]

Should be 70 here in Western South Dakota today, I would kill for some snow. We are facing a horrible fire season.

[Milwaukee Midget]

Should be 70 here in Western South Dakota today, I would kill for some snow. We are facing a horrible fire season.

That whole area is stunningly beautiful - I hope you get some rain, because it would be a heartache seeing it smolder.

The 11th Hour IPA is a winner, Trent.

Seeing as the drive adapter isn't ready yet, I'll be postponing the dyno session until the 27th. 

For all of the "dyno porn" and jokes about "intermingling of species", the cold honest truth is that mating this tractor engine to the industry standard Chevrolet bolt pattern, collecting air flow data off of a Weber DCOE and bringing in my Electromotive box and coil packs is a challenge.  Most shops are set up for V-8s - makes sense - most small time racers are running V8s.  The shop we're using has a MSD unit attached to the dyno, so if you're coming in with even a simple Hall Effect distributor, you can get some sort of ignition up and flying.  The cooling hoses are standard to what a SBC or SBF might have - larger than mine.  Exhaust hook up is going to be interesting.

Essentially, we need to be able to insert a BMC A-series engine in the spot normally set up for a small block Chevy in the same amount of time one would install a small block Chevy.  Fordboy's put together a pretty thorough checklist, and things are falling into place, but the inherent nature of this kind of lash-up is one where rattlesnakes tend jump out from under rocks and latch on to your ankles. 


Essentially what we're trying to do right now is have everything measured, dialed and as close to a 'plug and play' as is possible so that the time we're alloted isn't wasted micky-mousing things like oil pressure gauges, throttle linkage, fuel and air metering.  I need to maximize this opportunity now. 

[Elmo Rodge]

There, their, they're
It will be OK
G

Time for a poem.

Wun Wun was a race horse
Tu Tu was one too
Wun Wun won one race one day
Tu Tu won one too                          Wayno

[Seldom Seen Slim]

Yeah, Wayno -- I can tell you're celebrating the birthday anniversary early.  Nancy got a laugh out of my tongue-tied attempt to read your poem to her.

[Milwaukee Midget]

One would wonder if Wayno won one once.

[fordboy628]

MORE INTERGALACTIC PRE-MATING RITUALS. . . .      AKA,   DYNO ADAPTOR PORN!!

Midget,

Back on the adaptor track with a crude cross-section of all the adaptors & components.     Checking to see that everything will set into proper place, and that the splines on the drive hub will mate (?) properly with the input shaft. . . . . .

Og, (from the planet "Koosbane"), sez:   "Looking good, you lucky bastids!"


Myrddin Emrys Frankenpolish

[Geo]

Speaking of good looking lucky bastids!  Or something close to that. I hit the jackpot today. With all the Fordboy math I have developed a tremendous thurst from time to time. Which is good for keeping the brain young. Well, I have been trolling the internet in search of the beers mentioned and have cried myself to sleep as the closest I have come is a 5 hour drive on way to score some. All's well as I searched again this morning and found a store just across the state line that had some interesting brews and of all things a "beer tasting" today. So, rearrainging the schedule I headed down there and spoke to the beer clerk who looked at my list of 9 and smiled as the first one was in stock. I grabbed the last two packs of Dragons Milk! Then headed over to the tasting as one of the suggestions of the clerk was being poured.

Left Hand Brewing - Nitro Stout was very good and I grabbed a pack along with some Founders - Breakfast Stout.  I thought I had hit the jackpot until I came around the corner near the checkout...

Coffee from our local roaster specially matched for the St. Patricks celebration. The Roasterie made some Irish Blend Coffee and this was combined with Jameson Irish Whiskey and poured into a pre warmed cup and 1 tbsp of sugar quickly sturred in then topped with whipped cream to keep the flavors and alcohol from evaporating! Delightful!  I just found my morning beverage to start the day!  A fifth please. What a joyful trip home.

Perhaps the Rev will explore some of the UKs finest and make recomendations.

Mellowing after a Dragons Milk.

Now back to Dyno Daze.

Geo

[fordboy628]

Mellowing after a Dragons Milk.

Now back to Dyno Daze.

Geo

I hope you enjoyed the Dragon's Milk, truly a special brew.    In my book, excellent micro-brew = civilization.     Am on a quest to score some 3Floyd's Dark Lord Russian Imperial Stout.    Only available 1 day a year, at the Brewery, AND, you gotta score a ticket just to get in & buy three 20oz bottles.    Guess that is what happens when you get named Best Beer in the World, 3 years in a row. . . . . . . . . .

I find the math easier after a Dragon's Milk or two. . . . .    OR, maybe I just don't care as much. . . . .    Life is too short to worry. . . . .

"A spoon full of Jameson's makes the math go down. . . . . . "

Myrddin Emrys Frankenpolish

[Milwaukee Midget]

"A spoon full of Jameson's makes the math go down. . . . . . "

Gosh, Nanny - there's an aweful lot of math . . .

We're stopping at a spoon full because . . .   

[Stainless1]

Geo, all good beers... SCORE... Tomorrow for my birthday our local brewery is releasing 6 stouts, at least 4 aged in some kind of whisky barrel.   I will engage at 2pm... for desert they have a Chocolate Bock.... had one yesterday after lunch.... quite tasty....

Yep, a spoonful of Jameson always helps.... as does 10 or 18 year old Bushmills.... Just need a big enough spoon 

[Rob]

This post is just to reconnect me with the reply notifications. For some reason I keep losing them.

Upon reading the last several pages, it appears I've only missed a lot of beer drinking froth and bother, something about your older relatives and a little bit of foreign spelling..


Chris,

You may want to watch the drivers parade at the start of the F1, them's your kind of cars.

Cheers,
Rob

[fordboy628]

Midget,

Updates to Dyno Checklist attached as a pdf, by the PDF. . . . . . . . .

Myrddin Emrys Frankenpolish

[fordboy628]

Midget,

Drive plate adaptor engineering is finished and the print is completed.

Drive hub and instructions for modification, drive plate material and prints have all been delivered to "Wiggle-Pin".      Wiggle-Pin promises to convert material supplied into chips and a part worthy of use by the "Jackal". . . . .   by this weekend, at the latest. . . . .

Happy Vernal Equinox!!   Hope you don't have to shovel too much!!

Sorry, you have to wait for more pics of "pre-dyno porn" and updates to the checklist.    Try to control yourself, think of Vermont. . . . . .

Fordboy

[fordboy628]

MORE INTERGALACTIC PRE-MATING RITUALS. . . .      AKA,   MORE DYNO ADAPTOR PORN!!
             OR QUITE POSSIBLY:    ROSETTA STONE, PART DEUX???

Midget, et all,

This is the last large adaptor needed to permit "coupling" between 'horny' BMC "A" series engines and the 'randy' Superflow 901/902 series dynos using a "Chivaly" bell housing/scattershield and a 1 3/8th dia. x 10 spline input shaft.    Jpeg attached below.

Flywheel adaptor fits standard Spridget flywheel/pressure plate bolt/dowel pattern.

For anybody following along wanting to machine their own adaptor:   Make absolutely sure that the sprung hub center you utilize has the same pitch center diameter & spacing for the attaching bolts, as the sprung hub used for this adaptor.    And, yes, it DEFINITELY needs to be a sprung hub rather than a solid hub.    The sprung hub "damps" the harmonics from the 4 cyl "Martini Shaker", preventing the load cell getting a vibratory "lobotomy". . . . . .

Also:  Updated checklist.  Will post on Friday, prior to the "big push" for "mating". . . . .

Is 3/27/2013 confirmed as the target?    Need to load my AR-15, my portable cauldron, my hand held TI, my Post Versalog, spare bits, and ammo.     Advise if Mithril required or if I can leave mine in Chicago. . . . . . . . .      Advise for choice of beverage also. . . . . . . .

Myrddin Emrys Frankenpolish

[Milwaukee Midget]

ROSETTA STONE, PART DEUX???

Intergalactic . . .yes . . . indeed . . . Looks like a decoder ring stolen from the set of "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai in the Eigth Dimension"