Pitts S1-SS Construction Gallery » 2011 » August 2011

Engine mount spacers, after priming, hanging out to dry.	Engine mount spacer - exactly 1.75" to the 0.001 :-)	Engine mount spacer - exactly 1.75" to the 0.001 :-)	Engine mount spacers and oil dipstick painted...	Intake tubes - lower left hand side.
Intake tubes - upper left side.	Intake tubes - assembled, along with chromed rocker covers.	Preparing the intake gasket with red gasket seal.	Intercylinder baffles painted, after Araldyte and with...	Intake Tube with clamp and hose.
Intake tube with clamps and hose.	All four intakes assembled.	Right side - intakes top, with oil drains installed.	Vac pad ready for gasket and adaptor.	Vac pad, with gasket. Raven adaptor for inverted oil goes...
Inter-cylinder baffles installed	Top of intercylinder baffle.	Top of intercylinder baffle -= other side.	Intercylinder baffles installed.	Skytec starter bolted on.
Intercylinder baffles - other side.	Engine - finish shot for the day :-)	Engine waiting for its big day of testing.	Getting the engine out and ready to hoist.	Hanging up the engine ready to load onto the test rig.
The engine fitted to the test truck, ready for hooking...	Manifold pressure sensor connected up.	Temporary throttle cable attach.	Rotec TBI goes here.	Test rig cowling on the top, straight test exhaust...
Test straight exhaust tubes. Would love to have been able...	Other side of the same.	Rotec TBI - figuring out how the throttle and mixture work.	Wires and cables everywhere....!	Spark plug leads tied up.
Air filter hooked up to the TBI.	Ok, not quite 6" from the throttle body, but an easy...	Dual mag fitted, tacho cable, oil pressure, oil temp, etc.	Temporary throttle for the TBI.	Fuel lines in from the regulator.
Fixing up a jig with safety wire to hold the throttle...	Hot oil supply.	Inside the test bench, er.. truck.	Test bench and engine in the background. Nearly ready to...	Final checks that everything is hooked up and ready to go.
Mixture hooked up too.	Final checks.	Final checks.	runup	runup3
runup4	IMG 0392	MOV01657	MOV01658	MOV01659
MOV01661	MOV01663	MOV01664	MOV01665	MOV01666
MOV01667	MOV01668	Post run - checking the oil from the filter - just...	Hot engine... cooling down after it's long run up. One...	Oil filter - yet another one goes on after checking the...

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