{"id":235,"date":"2016-08-18T10:44:43","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T10:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wheeleyandtwooley.com.au\/?p=235"},"modified":"2016-09-05T22:18:51","modified_gmt":"2016-09-05T22:18:51","slug":"geococcyx-velox-part-3-debut-to-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wheeleyandtwooley.com.au\/?p=235","title":{"rendered":"Geococcyx Velox part 3 – debut to crash."},"content":{"rendered":"

Sunday 3-5-2015.\u00a0 Iron Man Motorkhana.\u00a0 DEBUT OF CAR<\/u><\/strong>. Drove it for about 1 metre, and clutch felt funny, so depressed it only to have it stick.<\/p>\n

Tuesday 5-5-2015. Fitted return spring and stop on clutch pedal.\u00a0 Ran wire from oil level switch through terminal 33.<\/p>\n

Monday 18-5-2015.\u00a0 Charged battery and started engine in gear.\u00a0 Drives wheels.\u00a0 Started motor in neutral and ran it for 30 seconds.\u00a0 Tested kill switch and it cuts the motor.<\/p>\n

rear foot brakes.<\/p>\n

Sunday 7-6-2015.\u00a0 Bled rear brakes by pressure.<\/p>\n

Monday 8-6-2015.\u00a0 Dropped car onto wheels, and measured ground clearance front and rear.\u00a0 Both are now 60 mm.\u00a0 Checked camber on all wheels.\u00a0 Left front 1 degree negative, right front 4 degrees negative (reset it to 1.5 degrees negative), left rear vertical, right rear vertical.<\/p>\n

Tuesday 23-6-2015.\u00a0 Tack welded right angle drive gearbox to its mounting plate.\u00a0 Refitted fuel pump, tank and lines.\u00a0 Re-wired fuel pump.\u00a0 Made bracket for throttle cable at pedal, and riveted it to pedal.\u00a0 Drilled and tapped alloy bar and connected it to bracket.\u00a0 Fitted cable connector to throttle pedal.\u00a0 Refitted pedal into car.<\/p>\n

Tuesday 30-6-2015.\u00a0 Charged battery and started motor.\u00a0 It still does not rev over 3000 rpm approx., and cuts out completely.\u00a0 Found exhaust gas sensor was not screwed in, so did so and tried again.\u00a0 No difference.<\/p>\n

Thursday 2-7-2015.\u00a0 Took car to Yamaha at Alderley, and the new service manager did not know what to do.\u00a0 He recommended that I take it back to Marty who is now at Moorooka Yamaha.<\/p>\n

Tuesday 7-7-2015.\u00a0 Took car to Team Moto Yamaha Moorooka and left it on trailer there for Marty to fix.<\/p>\n

Monday 13-7-2015.\u00a0 Throttle position sensor fitted, and high idle was caused by air screws set at 4 turns out instead of \u00bc turn out, problems fixed at Team Moto Yamaha Moorooka.\u00a0 Oil leak from Left Side stator cover, exhaust leaks around headers and mufflers.\u00a0 Coolant leaking.\u00a0 Sensor $300.\u00a0 Total $610.01\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 OUCH !!!!<\/p>\n

Friday 24-7-2015.\u00a0 Drained oil.\u00a0 Took left side stator cover off.\u00a0 Difficult.\u00a0 Sprocket and shaft came out with it.\u00a0 Tuesday 28-7-2015.\u00a0 Degreased stator cover around damaged area, and dried it off.\u00a0 Squeezed clear silicon into split from both sides.\u00a0 Let it set overnight.<\/p>\n

Wednesday 29-7-2015.\u00a0 Trialled fit stator cover, then put blue gasket goo on seam.\u00a0 Installed cover, and tightened it up.\u00a0 Topped up oil to top of glass gauge, and started motor.\u00a0 No oil leaks.\u00a0 Topped up oil again to top of gauge.\u00a0 Started it again \u2013 no oil leaks.<\/p>\n

Tuesday 18-8-2015.\u00a0 Car onto wheels, Charge battery.\u00a0 Test drove it under house, and clutch not working correctly.\u00a0 Reverse not being selected by gearlever, even though blue light says so.<\/p>\n

Monday 31-8-2015.\u00a0 Took Lean Angle Sensor off, and took it apart.\u00a0 Drilled hole in bottom intending to screw the counterweight so that it would not turn, but bottom of weight is magnetic.\u00a0 Decided instead to simply masking tape the counterweight so that it cannot rotate.\u00a0 Re-installed in car.\u00a0 Charged battery.\u00a0 Tested voltages again.<\/p>\n

At rest 12.0V.\u00a0 Master switch on 12.0V.\u00a0 Ignition on 12.0V.\u00a0 Starter engaged 9.0 V.<\/p>\n

Sunday 13-9-2015.\u00a0 Tested voltage between Lean angle sensor and earth and it is 1 volt \u2013 what it is supposed to be.<\/p>\n

Thursday 7-1-2016.\u00a0 Connected lost wire from O2 Sensor to wire from ECU.\u00a0 Tried to start \u2013 would not fire.\u00a0 Tested power to F.I. Relay \u2013 OK.\u00a0 Tested power from F.I. Relay \u2013 OK.\u00a0 There is power at terminal 29.<\/p>\n

Friday 8-1-2016.\u00a0 There is constant power at terminal ECU 7.<\/p>\n

Sunday 17-1-2016.\u00a0 Fitted replacement ECU and tried to start it.\u00a0 Then used \u201cStart Ya Bastard\u201d and it fired only one cylinder once.\u00a0 Charged battery.<\/p>\n

Wednesday 9-3-2016.\u00a0 Took car on trailer to Team Moto, Alderley.<\/p>\n

Friday 18-3-2016.\u00a0 Got car back from Team Moto.\u00a0 One of the wires to the injectors did not connect properly.\u00a0 Reverted back to original ECU, because replacement is said to be faulty.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 $605.00 cost.<\/p>\n

I topped up the radiator, and it took only 2 cups to fill.<\/p>\n

Sunday 20-3-2016.\u00a0 DROVE IT FOR FIRST TIME.\u00a0 Clutch is extremely touchy.\u00a0 Fully engaged in 2 mm of pedal travel.\u00a0 Drove it for about 200 metres, turning left and right.\u00a0 Accelerated and backed off, when a different gear noise occurred.\u00a0 Checked, and the outside bearing on the input shaft of the right angle drive gearbox had worked out of the housing, and the gears were badly misaligned.\u00a0 Put it back on the trailer, and brought it home.\u00a0 Took right angle drive gearbox off, and took apart the input shaft.\u00a0 Cut a piece of 21 ID tube to same length as the shaft collar.\u00a0 Reassembled box, and installed it in car.\u00a0 Worked it by hand, then started car in gear and ran the gearbox.\u00a0 All seemed to be OK<\/p>\n

Wednesday 23-3-2016.\u00a0 Designed larger right angle drive gearbox using larger gears and 125 SHS.<\/p>\n

Sunday 3-4-2016.\u00a0 Fiat Nationals.\u00a0 Tested car \u2013 broke weld on driveshaft flange.\u00a0 Re-welded it at home.<\/p>\n

Sunday 24-4-2016.\u00a0 QMC3 at Willowbank.\u00a0 Could not fit ATS front wheels on car, so had to run rain tyres.\u00a0 It would not go back into neutral after selecting first gear.\u00a0 Clutch is still savage.\u00a0 .\u00a0 When trying to run Test 2 the weld in the driveshaft snapped.\u00a0 Brought it home, and prepared shafts for welding.<\/p>\n

Monday 25-4-2016.\u00a0 To French Car Care to get Noel to weld up the prepared driveshaft and re-weld the flange.\u00a0 Straightened it in press.\u00a0 Home, and fitted it into the car with the mounting plate re-welded back onto gearbox.<\/p>\n

Wednesday 4-5-2016.\u00a0 Made gaskets from an old mouse mat, and installed them.\u00a0 Started it, and sound was less harsh.\u00a0 Made triangular door for RH side, painted it and fitted it.\u00a0 Made number panels and \u201cG\u201d lettering from \u201cContact\u201d, and fitted them to both doors.<\/p>\n

Sunday 22-5-2016.\u00a0\u00a0 HSCCQ Khanacross.\u00a0 Fine, warm.\u00a0 Had to put 3.2 mm spacers on rear wheels to get them to clear the brake callipers.\u00a0 Ran the first test at cautious speed, and noticed that after strong acceleration the car would dart about when the throttle was closed, and slow down quite rapidly from compression braking.\u00a0 It sounded slightly flat still, and ran fairly well through the rev range.\u00a0 When I stopped in the finish garage the left front brake was very hot, and smoking.\u00a0 The rear ride height had dropped significantly, and was only 10 mm from the surface.\u00a0 The clutch was still dragging, but I managed to get it into neutral to re-start it in the finish garage.<\/p>\n

On the second run, it seemed to be able to go through the chicane very quickly, so on the return through it, I went quicker.\u00a0 It felt slightly loose on the turn in to the first chicane, and at the central chicane suddenly turned left into the concrete barrier and hit it nose first at around 70 kph, then spun anti clockwise to a halt with the rear of the car close to the barrier.\u00a0 It took quite a while to get out of the car because my shins were very sore, and my Bakers Cyst was very painful, and then when I tried to walk I nearly collapsed because my left leg would not support any weight.\u00a0 I was helped to a waiting car and driven to the timing tent where it was noticed that there was a lot of blood soaking into my left trouser leg.\u00a0 It was revealed that I had a deep horizontal gash in the front of my shin right into the bone, and a 45 mm long gash above it.\u00a0 These wounds were cleaned and two bandages put on them.\u00a0 Meanwhile I had given my car keys to someone to go and get my car \/ trailer to pick up the damaged vehicle, but before that could be organised, Noel used the icecream van and his big trailer to go and with help get the damaged car onto the trailer.\u00a0 I was then driven back to my car, and the big trailer driven up beside it.\u00a0 The damaged car was taken off the big trailer, the broken right front top ball joint replaced, and manhandled onto my trailer.\u00a0 I then changed wheels over, and fastened it down to the trailer.\u00a0 The damage seemed to be the broken rose joint in the upper right front suspension, the left upright broken where the steering arm connects, the bottom right front chassis tube pushed back about 75 mm, and bend downwards, and the left rear lower suspension anchorage broken at the weld.\u00a0 I surmised that this breakage was what caused the crash.\u00a0 The \u201clexan\u201d nosecone was smashed up, and some other broken pieces picked up from the track where it happened.\u00a0 The car had been enveloped in a cloud of smoke when it stopped, but there was no oil spilled.\u00a0 I believe this might have been tyre smoke because of how quickly the car stopped.\u00a0 The left rear wheel brake was leaking at the connection to the calliper, and this was probably caused by the wheel moving further that the hose would accommodate.<\/p>\n

The only photo that I have of the car in competition is this one – ironically only 0.25 seconds before the impact.<\/p>\n

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