Ivan, I've been flooding the old channel with replies to viewers comments since yesterday, telling them about Shed Racing. I do it until RU-vid stops me for spamming. I only found out about Shed Racing a couple of days ago after worrying for ages something terrible happened.... You should be No1 with a million views a day. You are a wonderful chap along with everyone at Shed Racing. Very special people with very special vehicles.
After subscribing and watching the channel for a while, I’ve just realised Ivan sold me a car a good few years back for my daughter (Nissan Figaro, which we still have) they viewed the car and he spent time showing them around his workshop and vintage cars, I was overseas at the time, he delivered the car to Staffordshire , and after a phone call took away my little Boxford lathe. Engineer, Racer, Gentleman extraordinaire !
This is starting to look like a mad professor's shed . Don't you ever go away Ivan you are much loved. Best wishes young man. ps best wishes also to the older camera woman she is much appreciated. pps Never heard of a person or persons filling a camshaft not really interested in what you do personally after hours:)
wet myself just about.. giggling in front of the PC.. flew back near 55 years to when a pal & I built up the lift on a Velocette cam, as young teens.. of course the surface never lasted but it was a hoot.. well done Ivan, John, & thanks
Ivan, you class yourself as "uneducated", knowledge and experience such as you have cannot be bought with silver or gold. The world has too many "educated" folk who either have a "blockage" between their head and hands, or no "commonsense" or have not both. Ivan you guys rock...
completing a paper chase has little to do with being educated. i've had long discussions with degree holders who asked where i went to university. they were surprised to learn that i had to do remedial summer school to graduate high school with no further formal education. amazing what can be learned by simply going where curiosity takes you as opposed to being directed to follow paths you have no interest in. my only regret is disappointing several talented and devoted teachers.
Ivan, I think your videos are up there amongst the best that I watch. I love your workshop (bit more than a shed me thinks!) and your littles stories and anecdotes. I’m a motorbike man myself but that Sarbson rebuild was really interesting and the MG looks cracking, even the explanation of the twin leading shoe arrangement which of course we used to have on the bike years ago but I’ve never had the operation explained before. everyday is a school day! thank you and your team for taking the time to share.
Damnb brave running a tool post grinder without a guard on the wheel. I had one explode once. A piece of the grind stone went 50 ft up into the workshop roof and punched a hole through it. 😁
Interesting chap Freddie Dixon. I need to Dixon-ish my Riley and replace the twin SUs on it with an AMAL per cylinder for four carbs. I have them, I just need to rebuild them and sort out the manifold and throttle connection.
Ivan, you are a true scholar i.e., not someone who has a piece of paper on the wall to certify diligent copying and regurgitation of a university lecturer’s course material.
This was a very nice episode. It was great to see your new racing cam at work. Tanya also deserves congratulations for her camera work while riding in the car. Great Job to you both! Let's not forget John as well.
That thing looked really strong, and Ivan, you can drive, mate! I reshaped a magneto cam for a single cyl motorcycle in a similar fashion, and with good results. You right tho, its all about the overlap!
Absolutely brilliant piece of engineering thought process, that worked better than the original. You should have been born to race against Freddie D, Howe, Jack L-B etc
Yon field really needs a brace of 'running' 2CV floor pans, each one sporting a typical overlap wooden shed, gender neutral hanging baskets, a driver's periscope & the obligatory Clairol foot-spa for emergencies . . . let the racing commence! : )
Nice work Ivan, but please cover the lathe bedways with a damp rag to stop the grinding debris, the mix od iron and carborundum will not do the bedways any good. Whenever you use the toolpost grinder cover up
Engine sounded great just on tick over, and when he got into top gear and direct drive without the gearbox layshaft whine it sounded really good getting up above three and a half and towards four thousand ripms as AvE calls them
That's sort of what I've done at home modifying camshafts but using a crank grinding machine. Just got to have the chucks marked out accurately in degrees. It's on my channel.
Bit longer straight looked like it would have pulled 4201 rpm 😂 Bloody marvellous. Now what you want is a indexible roller cam follower so that base circle can be ground with a negative radii. Just don't drive more than walking distance from home.👌😆
I did this once with a junk Chinese Honda clone industrial engine (which had a plastic camshaft of all things!), all checked between centres with a DTI. On the dyno it didn’t make the blindest bit of difference 😂 although it certainly didn’t make it much worse. I think probably I’d tuned it to move more air at higher RPM, which the carburettor and the dyno itself couldn’t really handle, I didn’t dare rev it out lest the armature in the dyno self destructed 🤣 I’m glad to see I’m not the only person buggering about with camshafts, if you’ve got an old spare camshaft and you don’t go to far with the ramp angles to break the valve train what is there to lose!
That's amazing! Also, I found it fascinating (but after a little thought about how few lobes a 4-pushrod valvetrain really needs, I thought of course) how few and far-between the cam lobes are!
Fanbloodytastic filming when you shot towards the workshop had me wetting myself waiting for that puff of dust to come back out 😂 Great vid as usual the A team strike again 👍👨🏻🏭
I may have misunderstood how this works, but it seems to me that if you reduce the base radius on a four pushrod cam it will have the effect of increasing the exhaust lift, but reducing the inlet lift/ Or did you also grind down the inlet ramp part of the cam as well.
Ivan, if you weld some on then quench then grind would that harden the cam surface and give you some meat to play with lol... Keep up the fantastic work...
There is nothing not to like about this latest escapade! I recall reading that Freddie Dixon fitted the 6 cylinder special with 6 Amal carbs. He then tuned each cylinder, at night by the colour of the exhaust gas! Do get on well with your neighbours Ivan?
