Search results

Standard Lister 6/1 timing. Inlet opens 5d BTDC Inlet Closes 15d ABDC Exhaust opens 45d BBDC Exhaust closes 5d ATDC I found this on a site for Listers.

Sorry that I have not posted much lately. I have been doing things, just they seem to be the same things over and over. I have built a new injector, and am now rebuilding/modifying the pump. I have built 2 new pistons for the pump, to tighten it up so as to get "lots" of pressure, but I now...

Omaroo, it is not as difficult as it looks. just tackle 1 thing at a time. I used Boston gears in the rearend, 2:1 ratio.

Welcome to the Board. You can have a look at a couple of old school Tether cars I made at members.shaw.ca/podmek

Unfortunately it doesn't. The bleeder screw on the side of the pump bleeds off what isnt required. This is the arrangement that George Punter used with a little success. He acknowledges that it isn't ideal, nor perfected.

Modified the fuel pump and put it all back together today. All the pipes were fixed with compression fittings, all made as I went :p Many pieces of 1/4 and 5/16 hex rod turned to chips there! Finished off the fuel tank, and piped the fuel bleed to the top. Now the rocker cover needs to be...

Seeing as I had put off making the lubrication tube/tubes till later, it was now later and time to do it. A piece of K&S 3/16 brass tubing was drilled, cut to size, and 2 pieces of 1/8 copper tube were soldered in and formed to shape. A piece of 5/16 brass hex was machined to make up the RH...

I was fortunate enough to be sent a Lister piston casting from the UK. I machine it up on a mandrel, but when I was removing it from the mandrel, the skirt broke off at the lower oil ring groove. This is a pic of the old piston and the new one, which I am going to use. I made up new rings also...

I have pulled it all apart. 1 of the head studs stripped out of the crankcase, so I figured it is time to strip it down, detail everything, do the little things that I had left for "later". The studs were tapped 3/16-32, so I now have them at 10-32, and the crankcase also. I know that there is...

The fuel pump now works well, maybe too well! I do not have any way of removing excess fuel, as the bleed off valve that I have on the pump does not seem to do anything. I will have to try and fix that. The injector appears to work, it does spray a little bit of fuel. I have timed the cam, a...

It is about time to continue with this. The fuel pump is a very complex, for me!, piece to make. I hacked it out of a piece of brass bar, and added a piece as required. The drilling, cross drilling and ball valves were a test of my skills. I did OK, except that when assembled it did not work...

I have been busy with work and family the last week or so and have not done too much, but, I have the next week off so maybe we will see some more progress.

Yes that is the one that is being published in ME and that I am building.

What chance do you give it of working Greg? Is it the injector spray pattern that is problematic or quantity,? both? The injector actually injects into a sphere shaped cavity, which has a 2 x 3 miniscule slot into the head to piston space. I guess the combustion takes place there and transfers...

The oil pump looked like the lesser confusing item, so I tackled that next. My original attempt didn't work out well at all, caught on the tool and dislodged itself out of the 3 jaw. a bit of re planning later, a piece of 3/8" dia. brass was machined for the barrel and drilled to 5/32 bore. I...

Brian, that reminds me of our experience 4weeks ago. We flipped in a race, and had to replace the tail tank and bladder. The car ran well for 2 laps then went limp. After a few other changes, spark box etc, we gave up on that race night. took car home and found that the new bladder had dispersed...

You will have to make an engine to suit it now!!!! Great running engine BTW. I hope mine runs half as well!

Thanks Brian, you will all know how it goes, or doesn't!!! The pump and injector have me concerned. The pump should be OK, but the injector is an unknown quantity at this time.

At this point in construction I basically had all the "big" pieces semi-finished to how I was going to be making them, now it was getting down to the fiddly bits, the pumps and injector.:p I had decided to start painting some bits too. The colour is not what I wanted, and all will be painted...

I attacked the head next. I cut 1 from a piece of steel that we had, took it home and proceeded to machine it as per the ME drawings. I cut it as per the ME drawings. Guess what,:confused:, the machining drawings were based on a 50mm square head, the cut drawings showed a 55mm x 50 mm head. I...