View Trike BuildView Hover BuildI’m EmptyEngine Bay Area 5When i get to the stage of fiber glassing the tunnel in place i will more than likely cut away most of the ply that is under it so that the portion of air being drawn from the thrust fan through the fan frame area can also […]
View Trike BuildView Hover BuildI’m EmptyEngine Bay Area 4The clearance i have between the muffler and the drive shaft is just on 30mm, I’ve still got to make up some heat shields to divert the heat away from the belt (which i haven’t got yet cause a belt is like $200 NZD ) but i’ll […]
View Trike BuildView Hover BuildI’m EmptyEngine Bay Area 3 Apart from painting it and a little tidying up, the exhaust is now finished. The pipes were bent up by Magoo Mufflers on their pipe bender and the front pipes from the manifold were also created by them. I screwed some aluminium plates to the beams […]
View Trike BuildView Hover BuildI’m EmptyEngine Bay Area 2Here I’ve just made up the panel between the motor and seating and have fitted a B14 Nissan Sunny radiator. From this shot it also shows how my original idea of mounting the muffler has now had to be changed yet again due to the motor sitting […]
View Trike BuildView Hover BuildI’m EmptyEngine Bay Area 1This is showing how I’m going to be mounting my motor. I removed the original engine mounts and used those mounting holes to mount a piece of 75mm (i think off memory) box section on either side of the motor. At either end of the box section […]
View Trike BuildView Hover BuildI’m EmptyWorking out center of gravityI had another attempt at putting the motor in tonight. This time i found the centre of the craft which is 4.2 meters / 2 = 2.1 meters and then made a mark on the craft that was 2 inches (50mm) behind that centre line. Its […]
View Trike BuildView Hover BuildI’m EmptyDrive Train 3Today i welded and extra section of box tubing to my fan frame and drilled a slotted hole in one end so that i can mount a tensioner to adjust the excess slack i have in the belt i had to buy. At the moment, as it sits, […]
View Trike BuildView Hover BuildI’m EmptyDrive Train 2Here is a close up of the Jaw Coupling. I went with the idea of using a jaw coupling because i’ve seen it been used before in a tornado hovercraft and they also use this type of coupling in jet ski’s, so if it’s good enough for a […]
View Trike BuildView Hover BuildI’m EmptyDrive Train 1I’ve made up some bosses to support my gears to the fan and crank shafts. They have been made up in a lathe and have keyway’s down the centre of them. Now that i think about it , it probably would of been easier to make them tapered […]
View Trike BuildView Hover BuildI’m EmptySeating and Steering 6You can see what i mean here about the last 140mm of the seat sides, i angled them like that so that hopefully they have more chance of grabbing the air from the cockpit area than they would if they were just plain straight. kinda like a […]