Re: 16 valve B motor - living the dream
Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2010 3:24 pm
And the completed larger pulley, something is finished!
Luke wrote:I feel a bit like I may be talking to myself this is week, but here some more pics incase somebodys out there!
KPAero wrote:Luke wrote:I feel a bit like I may be talking to myself this is week, but here some more pics incase somebodys out there!
This project is really cool. Keep the pics coming! What are your plans for the motor? Do you think you might use it in one of the rally cars?
KPAero wrote:Luke wrote:I feel a bit like I may be talking to myself this is week, but here some more pics incase somebodys out there!
This project is really cool. Keep the pics coming! What are your plans for the motor? Do you think you might use it in one of the rally cars?
DrewP wrote:I've been shopping machines lately and am biding my time till a decent Hardinge HC / TFB / HLV shows up for sale, I'll make space for that.
What make is your lathe, and how do you like it? I can never really tell from your photos what you have (the B-port is obvious, thank goodness.) I don't really want to buy an aging gap bed in case I want to make anything that needs to hold a tolerance, like for press fits - which I'm sure I will want to as soon as I break down and buy a shitty machine just cause it's $800 and comes with tooling... 8(
Since balls don't like to plunge I was going to suggest cutting a narrow square sided groove at the CL of the groove with like a 1/4" 2-flute that you could shop out in a hurry so you didn't have the centrepoint of the 2-flute ball be what was limiting your feed, how deep were you plunging per pass? I'd be surprised if I'd want to go deeper than like 0.050" on a knee roughing machine in AL, just so I didn't gum up the tip of a big ball-end like that. You could cut 0.150 easy if the center channel was cut down to a little shy of full depth beforehand.
Drew
DrewP wrote:What's up next?? <--- [this would be a smiley drooling on itself if there was one I could use, but alas, 'Hungry for More' will have to do...]
Krister K wrote:Amazing project, love it!
DrewP wrote:Will the machine be able to hold tolerance for the lifter bores, or are you going to have to ream them? I assume they are a standard size?
"Lookin' gooood, Cannonball Run!"
Drew