 Well, at last it was time to press on with the CBR1000 fit. I went up to Andy’s last weekend to look at how it fitted in Rob Grant’s striker. It didn’t look too difficult although I already knew I was going to have to make some brand new engine mountings.
First thing, though, was to take the CBR900 engine out, as seen in the picture here. This should, I hope, be the last time I take this engine out. |
Archive for the ‘Redesigning’ Category
The last race of the RGB season is coming up so the car needs a bit of preparation.
Most important is the oil cooler. I took this off before Oulton as it became apparent that something was leaking from somewhere. However, the oil temperatures at Oulton were back to being alarmingly high (as in the output from the logger just on the right.) As you can see, the oil temperature was up to nearly 160°C before the end of the race.
I’ve carried on using Susprog3D on the suspension and it’s really rather interesting, or alarming depending on your point of view. All I’ve done with the suspension in the past is just calculated the roll centres and used that, along with a nifty spreadsheet, to calculate the roll stiffness distribution. That was fairly successful. However, the current investigation is producing all sorts of odd things.
