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Re: Team Unorthodux, the third year
« Reply #30 on: June 30, 2015, 12:59:27 AM »
The o-rings in the quick-disconnects are not methanol compatible...  :dhorse: They swell up and clog the line.
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Re: Team Unorthodux, the third year
« Reply #31 on: June 30, 2015, 08:15:57 AM »
Yeah, that's the bitch about fluid transfer/containment.

Seals for oil not compatible with gas, not compatible with fuel, not compatible with alcohols, etc, etc.

And it is a time consuming PITA to research compatible seals/O-rings, find them, buy them (da** some are expensive . .   :cry: ) and then install them . . . . .   :roll:

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Re: Team Unorthodux, the third year
« Reply #32 on: June 30, 2015, 08:19:05 AM »
I really like the home cast cylinder head idea, the picture won´t show for me though. Any chance you might post it again?

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Re: Team Unorthodux, the third year
« Reply #33 on: July 01, 2015, 10:41:46 AM »
I really like the home cast cylinder head idea, the picture won´t show for me though. Any chance you might post it again?
Sure.

It will look different this year once machining is complete.
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Re: Team Unorthodux, the third year
« Reply #34 on: July 02, 2015, 05:59:13 PM »
Mystery rev-limiter huh? Do not know on Ducs but quite a few injected bikes I have worked on had a clutch switch for starting that,if bypassed, put bike in a "neutral map" with less timing and lower rev-limit. And our GSXR 750 one year developed a low limit that turned out to be a bad cam sensor. Needed it to start but not run so put a switch on it.
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Re: Team Unorthodux, the third year
« Reply #35 on: July 02, 2015, 09:49:24 PM »
Mystery rev-limiter huh? Do not know on Ducs but quite a few injected bikes I have worked on had a clutch switch for starting that,if bypassed, put bike in a "neutral map" with less timing and lower rev-limit. And our GSXR 750 one year developed a low limit that turned out to be a bad cam sensor. Needed it to start but not run so put a switch on it.
This one runs off a microsquirt... I think I know which setting is misconfigured, but I have to catch up on a few other things first.
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Re: Team Unorthodux, the third year
« Reply #36 on: July 13, 2015, 01:08:33 AM »
Like the freaking wiring.

New fuel pump, s-can the quick disconnects, no more than 20 psi of fuel pressure.  Oh look, the wiring has had been had at by chaos... grrr... too many wires....

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Re: Team Unorthodux, the third year
« Reply #37 on: August 17, 2015, 01:14:37 AM »
Still have a few issues to sort, but this is the 749R.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UX66gA62h6A
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Re: Team Unorthodux, the third year
« Reply #38 on: January 24, 2016, 12:19:37 AM »
Poorly mocked up, but this is the current bodywork plan.
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Re: Team Unorthodux, the third year
« Reply #39 on: February 15, 2016, 01:12:32 AM »
Oh, it turns out I should have drained the water before it got solidly below freezing.
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Re: Team Unorthodux, the third year
« Reply #40 on: February 15, 2016, 01:54:41 AM »
Oh, it turns out I should have drained the water before it got solidly below freezing.

:/  how bad is it?
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Re: Team Unorthodux, the third year
« Reply #41 on: February 15, 2016, 01:57:35 AM »
JB weld should fix it, but eBay turned up a replacement for not too much scratch.  As long as it is the right diameter, shouldn't be a problem.

Ducati stuff is funny.  I bought an ostensible set of pistons and jugs that were 4mm short in diameter.   :x
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Re: Team Unorthodux, the third year
« Reply #42 on: February 15, 2016, 10:44:38 AM »
Those are neat projects. Taking on a project like a self made piston supercharged bike is commendable.

I thought I would throw out some ideas about the piston supercharged bike although it is apparent you have put a lot of though into this project.

If you have not already done so, you may consider making timing charts of the engine process. These are helpful for almost any process especially ones that involve gas flow. They do not need to be overly technical or even include hard data (like pressures) that are difficult to determine.

The way I would do it is just make a line from left to right on paper that is chronological. Mark on the line each pistons TDC and BDC with sufficient distance between these events to add more stuff. The two pistons event's are placed in the correct order on the same line but labeled power piston (PP) and compressor piston (CP). Or you could give each cylinder its own line one above the other. Then on the line fill in all the valve open and closing events including your guesstimates for the reed valves. For a 90 degree V twin with both rods on the same throw, the two cylinders are 90 degrees in crank rotation apart in their cycles. The attached image is an example for a simple single cylinder 4 stroke. http://www.tuks.nl/WFCProject/Les_Banki_Project/img/4_stroke_engine_timing_cycle.png

Below this line I would try to make another time line that guesstimated each cylinders pressure as it goes thru the four strokes. This chart may give you an indication of the actual pressure of the power piston chamber when the intake valve closes but before the piston comes up and further compasses the gas. Obviously you want it above atmospheric. You of coarse have the excellent advantage of the power piston is operating as a 4 stroke and the compressor piston is acting as a 2 stroke so the whole process shows significant pressure benefits.

One potential trap I see in a process like this engine is generating higher pressures in the compressor cylinder, that do not get  transferred to the power piston. This could use energy to compress, that is wasted. Also the volume of any transfer runners must be considered. The overtemp problem got me thinking about this.

Due to your familiarity with your creation this exercise may be unneeded because you already have your mind wrapped around the process. For me visual representations almost always help.
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Re: Team Unorthodux, the third year
« Reply #43 on: February 15, 2016, 02:40:42 PM »
Those are neat projects. Taking on a project like a self made piston supercharged bike is commendable.

I thought I would throw out some ideas about the piston supercharged bike although it is apparent you have put a lot of though into this project.

If you have not already done so, you may consider making timing charts of the engine process. These are helpful for almost any process especially ones that involve gas flow. They do not need to be overly technical or even include hard data (like pressures) that are difficult to determine.

The way I would do it is just make a line from left to right on paper that is chronological. Mark on the line each pistons TDC and BDC with sufficient distance between these events to add more stuff. The two pistons event's are placed in the correct order on the same line but labeled power piston (PP) and compressor piston (CP). Or you could give each cylinder its own line one above the other. Then on the line fill in all the valve open and closing events including your guesstimates for the reed valves. For a 90 degree V twin with both rods on the same throw, the two cylinders are 90 degrees in crank rotation apart in their cycles. The attached image is an example for a simple single cylinder 4 stroke. http://www.tuks.nl/WFCProject/Les_Banki_Project/img/4_stroke_engine_timing_cycle.png

Below this line I would try to make another time line that guesstimated each cylinders pressure as it goes thru the four strokes. This chart may give you an indication of the actual pressure of the power piston chamber when the intake valve closes but before the piston comes up and further compasses the gas. Obviously you want it above atmospheric. You of coarse have the excellent advantage of the power piston is operating as a 4 stroke and the compressor piston is acting as a 2 stroke so the whole process shows significant pressure benefits.

One potential trap I see in a process like this engine is generating higher pressures in the compressor cylinder, that do not get  transferred to the power piston. This could use energy to compress, that is wasted. Also the volume of any transfer runners must be considered. The overtemp problem got me thinking about this.

Due to your familiarity with your creation this exercise may be unneeded because you already have your mind wrapped around the process. For me visual representations almost always help.
I appreciate the interest.

I think I see what you are saying... but the limitations of the current equipment make that largely a guessing game:

The 2 valve Ducati cams have a relatively large amount of overlap... packaging is currently the problem on the exhaust length... I think it is right, but tuned length should mean something.  Very different now as compared to 2014 when all the pictures are from.

The compressor "plenum" has a variable diameter down through the intake valve.

The CP isn't really compressing in the piston, it is compressing in the plenum.  This doesn't seem to matter after the first few seconds of running.

Even with a terrible CP head and a broken "exhaust" reed valve, it made a consistent 25+ psi and ran 84 mph on pump gas.  I'm hoping "better" design of the air path in the CP head will alleviate some of the temperature-generating effects... plus a switch to methanol for fuel to help cool the charge and add that alky smell to the ambiance.  :-D

Design changes:
CP air path was a Y shape.  "Lots" of unswept volume.
CP air path was terribly unsmooth.  In fact so unsmooth as to not qualify as smooth compared to the surface of the moon.  Hard to access with any kind of tool to make smoother.
Throttle plate after CP broke the "exhaust" reed valve.

New air path "insists" that air enter the swept volume.  "Significantly" (unmeasured) less unswept volume.
New air path is "smooth" and accessible to make smoother.
Move the throttle plate forward of the intake for the CP.

Theoretically I am doing this all wrong anyway... I should have just blanked off a cylinder and run a turbo.
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Re: Team Unorthodux, the third year
« Reply #44 on: May 14, 2016, 09:43:43 PM »



The team is a total of 2 this year, so only one bike. Entry is in.
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