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I have a heavy splitting maul too and it sure helps but alot of my stuff is knotty beech etc very tough stuff.
Yours looks like better stuff.
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I have a heavy splitting maul too and it sure helps but alot of my stuff is knotty beech etc very tough stuff.
Yours looks like better stuff.
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Was that you jigging it about in the promo vid?
Never watched that before. The poses look a bit....
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Yesterday evening I've bought this on Amazon .
Thought it would be interesting to have a technical reference while working on the 126p.
I most likely don't need it, cause I'm going to modify most of it .
Starting from the suspensions changing the struts attack angles, the frame adding structural reinforcements practically everywhere close to attack points (it's already a great frame) to the engine by completely forging it.
The transmission too implementing a mechanical sequential shifting mechanism which doesn't do much more than use a plate to move the selectors (quick short precise).
Brakes etc
Anyway move on this
Below one of my husky power cutter videos on YouTube
A guy commented it should have millions likes .
I've abandoned the project because wasting time finding solutions etc
Anyway I've started looking for K760 intake plates , realised that there are 2 different types ...
Wide ports which is what's on my k770
And narrow or slim ports which is presumably the one which fits correctly on the aftermarket cylinder I've installed on my consaw .
Obviously discontinued model ,no parts available other way...
The only one I've found online was on eBay and it's coming from the USA .
I've wasted enough time and energy on this consaw but I believe it turned out to be a personal challenge and I'd like to make my subscribers happy so why not dance this last tango
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I embarked on a project with a 126 BIS a few years ago which was to involve grafting in a Fiat X1/9 engine, transmission and rear suspension (and possibly front end).
The advantage with the BIS was that we'd had the car from new so was completely unmolested and rust free. I had sourced a complete X1/9, removed/cut out all the parts I needed and then swept up what was left and put it in the bin!
Unfortunately, life got in the way (as it does!) and I ended up moving it all on.
I still quite fancy the idea!
Good luck with your project
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My initial idea was to put a 695 engine and gearbox in it ...I embarked on a project with a 126 BIS a few years ago which was to involve grafting in a Fiat X1/9 engine, transmission and rear suspension (and possibly front end).
The advantage with the BIS was that we'd had the car from new so was completely unmolested and rust free. I had sourced a complete X1/9, removed/cut out all the parts I needed and then swept up what was left and put it in the bin!
Unfortunately, life got in the way (as it does!) and I ended up moving it all on.
I still quite fancy the idea!
Good luck with your project
So 1.4 T-Jet pumped up to 239HP, mounted just like on a front wheel drive but moved on the rear in a kinda mid engine set up .
Around 500kg of weight....
It was the recipe for a Group B 126...
Problems obviously
Regulations won't allow that unfortunately.
Then thought about a fire swap
So 1.2 8V from a Punto , 16V pistons and turbocharged ....
Gearbox won't like 180+ horsepower....
Motorcycle engine not the greatest for reliability as it's not meant to stay into a car, it's built to move around the space and to work around centrifugal forces like it only can if mounted on a bike, it will end up suffering oil starvation at any single corner and really not the best choice for a rally car.
It's good on a track where there's never a complete or almost complete stop .
It's not built for that .
Next I've thought about its own little engine....
People in Poland (don't ask me why over there everything is possible) succeed turbocharging those little air cooled things but in reality they works only under full throttle because they start starving for cooling air at any middle range rev .
A customer used to take jobs at the machine shop I work in...
Made an 800cc (aluminium billet cylinders) fiat 500 turbocharged ....
Which indeed was a beast but below a certain load it throws the second cylinder rod out .
An original design flaw, second cylinder develops a cavitation effect and the air can't cool it down anymore causing the piston to expand and seize in the cylinder (have a look for fiat 126 and 500 busted engines , cylinder two always always fails)
Ending up in something like that
That's the original Engine mounted on mine ....
One of the best swaps options for this platform is the fiat 100 engine aka 903cc or 899cc or better the A112 Abarth 1050cc
Cause you can find everything for them and you can turbocharge them stock.
Just a matter of filing the rings, put washers below the valve springs and add an injector.
Not brutal power outputs but enough for having fun (70ish HP up to 120 140HP on a stock bottom end)
And that's what I would like to do right now with mine but regulations change everyday and I have not enough money to make a car start to finish back to 0 because they changed mind and what's done it's not allowed anymore ...
So back to the road but little bit more aggressive ...
God mode restorations
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Today I acquired. Another Bisley draw set for huge sum of absolutely nothing. Needs a little fettling with and a colour change but otherwise happy days
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I'm scared about custom duties otherwise I'll buy one myself
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I always fancied the 250 for a giggle, I just like 2 stroke singles!
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Aye it an itch ive wanted to scratch for a while. This came up cheap and very local, so here we are. For better or worse.
I got a TS150 for £10 back in 1991,
easily the worst brakes on any bike I have ever ridden.
But many clever bits of practicality built into it.
Still have the hand pump somewhere.
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My first ever bike after the inevitable FS1E was a D14/4 bantam. Since then I've had a 955i tiger, a ZX9R and everything in between but I keep looking at late bantams, and MZs!
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I have a Maxim 700 that has been sitting for three years and needs putting back to roadworthiness first. Then I'll sell it and be very tempted!Go on, get one........... We could start a club
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Re the husky intake plates there are indeed 2 types.
Pre 2012 I think is the cut off for the narrow style. Then they go wider. And the narrow ones are impossible to find now.
To compound the issue aftermarket cylinder suppliers do not say which type they are selling!! Idiotic really and in some cases when I asked suppliers to measure and tell me what type of cylinder they are offering they declined and were confused why and what I was asking.
Your best bet is to trawl ebay for used carbs with intake assemblies and to be sure ask the vendor to measure the gap between ports.
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Good man!!
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Which is probably the wall I've found through my way .
My husky is 2 years old, everything on it says 2022
So it's a newer model.
I've bought the cylinder on eBay and didn't know anything about this detail.
Good information which I'll share on the final video of this consaw.
If I didn't looked for a 760 intake I wouldn't never even know about this change in design.
Thanks a lot for that.
I have "now" both plates and this would solve the problem with this saw
Brother gave me a green MZ, pretty sure it was a 175cc same style, if felt massive when I was 16.
Felt massively uncool as well trying to pull the birds & trying to catch up with the LC350 brigade
- I'd have it back tho. 