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Old 1st January 2015, 01:25 PM
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My main doubt is the more photos of people builds I look at the more seem to have the engine skewed

If anyone could agree or disagree that would be great!
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Old 1st January 2015, 02:20 PM
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Argument was about angle of u/j's in the prop but you would need a center bearing anyway.
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Old 1st January 2015, 02:23 PM
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Ross you can just use a 2 UJ prop setup with the UJ's 90 degrees out of phase, no need for a centre bearing. You only tend to use a centre bearing when you have 3 UJ's in the proshaft as you need the centre bearing to support the centre UJ otherwise it would be free move in free space.
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Old 1st January 2015, 02:41 PM
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Argument was about angle of u/j's in the prop but you would need a center bearing anyway.
Sorry I'm confused, what argument?
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Old 1st January 2015, 02:43 PM
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Ross you can just use a 2 UJ prop setup with the UJ's 90 degrees out of phase, no need for a centre bearing. You only tend to use a centre bearing when you have 3 UJ's in the proshaft as you need the centre bearing to support the centre UJ otherwise it would be free move in free space.
Yeah I thought that but I thought it was a bit long for a single prop?
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Old 1st January 2015, 03:02 PM
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Few exhaust clearance pics



That's looking straight at the side



That's looking straight down the axis of the exhaust ports



And that's a ruler coming straight out of the port



Hopefully I might be able to drop the engine down a tad more, just waiting on AB performance to give me some sump dimensions
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Old 5th January 2015, 09:09 PM
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Well spoke to AB performance today, real nice chap with some good ideas backed up with some good evidence,

So I've moved it again, haha







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Old 5th January 2015, 09:09 PM
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Think I've got clearance around everything that I need to have

So Tatley off the haynes forum who lives not to far from me has kindly lent me his body work so I can mock things up



Looking a bit like a car!



There's a bit of clearance over the top, this is saturn body work but I'm holding that the exquinox may be has a bit more
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Old 6th January 2015, 08:29 AM
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There's a bit of clearance over the top, this is saturn body work but I'm holding that the exquinox may be has a bit more
I believe the Equinox scuttle and nosecone come up taller - i can measure mine this evening and post some pics if it helps? Actually, now that i've got my engine mounts done, it's about time that I do what you have anyway!
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Old 6th January 2015, 10:43 AM
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I believe the Equinox scuttle and nosecone come up taller - i can measure mine this evening and post some pics if it helps? Actually, now that i've got my engine mounts done, it's about time that I do what you have anyway!
yes if you wouldn't mind, that would be great
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