another Snow engine

[Dave Otto]

Looks great Achim!

The air cleaner makes the little RC carb look a little more industrial; nice touch.

Dave

[Rustkolector]

Achim,
Often when starting the Snow it is not uncommon for a large air bubble to form at the inside base of one or more of the coolant drain funnels due to the beginning intermittent coolant flow. These bubbles get stuck at the base of the funnels and cause coolant to overflow making a mess of your nice engine before you even notice it. To prevent these overflows solder a single fine strand of copper wire, removed from a piece of #14 electrical wire, to the inside of the outlet tube and extend it down to the bottom of each funnel. This fine wire is hardly noticeable and will prevent the formation of these bubbles. This only happens when flow is beginning, or if flow becomes intermittent for any reason.

I have followed your Snow build from the beginning. Very nice work.
Jeff

[fumopuc]

Bill, Dave thanks for following along.


Jeff, thanks for your suggestion. It is always good to have a plan if something unexpected happens. Good to have a solution already.Thanks for the compliment too.

[Roger B]

Coming along very nicely    I like the powder coated carb  Nearly there 

[Don1966]

Another professional addition to a beautiful engine Achim. Your getting closer my friend to a runner......

Don

[fumopuc]

Roger, Don thanks for checking.


I am back in the "Snow" business.
The nearly last item, the exhaust manifold.
It is a challenging part. There is not very much room available around all these pipes.
It will try it step by step.
First the long tube with the bracket to fix it at the sub base.
Than the 4 holes in this long tube will be prepared, followed by a fixture to solder the bended tubes into the long collector tube.
Finally the soldering between the flanges and the rest of the manifold direct at the engine, like done with the inlet manifold.
Thatīs  the plan.....

[vcutajar]

Nice to see you back at the Snow Achim.

Vince

[Dave Otto]

Hi Achim

Good to see you back in the shop. That does appear to be challenging part but I'm sure it will come out great; just like all your other work.

Dave

[fumopuc]

Vince, Dave, good to know that your are still with me in this long term project.


A bit progress with the exhaust system.
At the end of the long collector pipe is a block which will be used for the fixation at the sub base also.
Here is also the interface for any further pipe installation.
In Doug`s drawings is a threaded hole for a discharge elbow.
In my version, there is, as already started in the last posting, a clamp to connect any further tubing with a 2mm bolt.
At the moment I have a strait tube only, but may be later a bending with a silence or something similar can be mounted here either.
The visible drill bit is for marking the missing hole for the water pipe fixation bracket.
These pipes should be fixed in their final position before any further exhaust pipe work will be made.
Room is not so much available in this corner of the model.

[b.lindsey]

Great to see further progress Achim. Shouldn't be too long until we can see this beauty running 

Bill

[Kim]

Nice pipe work Achim!  Somehow I missed your previous post and wasn't up to date!
I'm glad to see you making progress. Your engine is magnificent!
Thanks,
Kim

[fumopuc]

Hi Bill and Kim thanks for watching.


Today was the day of disassembling so I am far away of any running.
I had to mount all the lower valve cages with the exhaust valves first time.
With my stud and nut concept for the fixation, the only way to do this in a proper way is to take the cylinder unit of.
With the flanges in the camshaft an easy going.
Some studs had to be made and at the end of the day, the lower units are fixed.
But to be honest it looks at bit sad at the base plate.

[Dave Otto]

There is an amazing amount of time consuming work at this stage. I like the exhaust piping and stack base with the clamp; it fits right in with all your other very nice details.

Good to see progress Achim.


Dave

[Don1966]

There is an amazing amount of time consuming work at this stage. I like the exhaust piping and stack base with the clamp; it fits right in with all your other very nice details.

Good to see progress Achim.


Dave

What Dave said and .......I........like..........

Don

[Roger B]

That engine has some pretty complicated plumbing  Still following along and awaiting the first trials