Cleaning of the combustion chamber internals.

A bit of cooking in the kitchen!

I used the kitchen gas stove to anneal the copper water jet cut sealing rings, used either end of the combustion chamber.

October is looming and things are moving in the W/S again :)

I have finally got around to a bit of 'in the shed work' as of late and have been tittavating things up a bit before the first run. Below shows the cutting and laying of the copper hot side gaskets to seal the turbocharger to the twin exhaust manifold.

I have renewed all the bolts and have added Aeroquip locking nuts. These nuts are ideal for high temperature applications as they lock onto the bolt as with a nyloc nut but they don't contain nylon, which would obviously melt!

Below is the fitting of the fuel pump and filter. The filter is the old filter I took off of my Audi S6 car and after re-tapping the outlet hole to half BSP, it fit's just perfect.

Cleaning up + adding the combustion chamber temp sensor.

I have been doing a bit to the engine over this weekend. I have fitted the T3 temperature sensor in the outlet from the combustion chamber to the two turbo units. I have tried to keep the sensor nipple as close to the outer casing as possible to avoid it being melted off on any hot starts I may incure.
I have also been die grinding and finishing the inside of the combustion chamber outlet splitter pipe and externally pickling and cleaning the casings.

Inside view of the Flame Tude inside the combustion chamber.

The two compressor outlet pipes being pickled (a process of brushing on a very strong acid that cleans the TIG welding burn marks from the Stainless Steel)

Inside the Flame Tube. The fuel nozzle, at the bottom, and ingiter, coming in from the left hand side, can clearly be seen.