Engine Bay Area 5

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 […]

Engine Bay Area 4

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 […]

Engine Bay Area 3

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 […]

Engine Bay Area 2

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 […]

Engine Bay Area

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 […]