Crappy lock down and winter meen I havent been doing much except for some CAD drawings for parts I need making and cant do myself. More on those when I have physical parts!
What I have been doing the last few weeka is prepping the cam belt cover for carbonising, the standard design of clips and what not doesn't lend itself to replication so I'm using the standard back as the basis of a pattern and the front parts will be made from scratch. The standard set weighs a little over 700g, I should be able to half that...I think
gelcoated
First layer of glass on
Mould finished
Whilst I was waiting for the resin to cure I decided to lighten the damper reservoir brackets, no idea why..
before
after
6 grams total saving, for the pair. Now I think about it I probably have some aluminium screws laying around that could replace the steel ones and save another 6 grams.
Original, if slightly tatty and chopped about cover
roughly trimmed rear, not a bad saving when you consider..
That compared to the original it is 'full depth'...
Retrieved my engine block over the weekend and continued trimming the back cover.
Here I set up a laser cross level that was parallel with the bottom of the block then used the vertical line to trim the front true, you can see the cut edge on the right of the image is green where the laser catches it on the way past.
As I left it, I'm now waiting for a delivery of pulleys and a water pump so I can finish trimming where the idlers fit and then start on the front parts of the cover.