The Mini Mini Scamp - an RRG Toilet Transport Journey

Today this happened (ignore the chain slap, i'm waiting for a tensioner)




Confident, I then took it up and down the road. Some notes i've made


It's uncomfortable, it's the pedals, I need to do something about that in the future, it will have to do for RRW though

It doesn't want to turn tight, lifts a wheel, though i'm pretty sure the Bar Stool did the same and was fine on grass

The carb is a bagg of balls, cheap chinese curse word, won't hold pressure from the vacuum pump and won't idle. I have a Mikuni to replace it

The wiring is, well, the less said the better. I've ran out of time, it's just loosely taped in place, doesn't charge the battery and I can operate the starter in Fwd/Neu/Rev when it really should only be in Neutral

The steering arms being so short make it rather squirrely to drive, not sure I can do much about that


It is on the otherhand a 1/3 version of an already smol car, so I don't think i've done too badly and hope to improve on things as time goes by

I left you on a cliff hanger there didn't I

I booked the Wednesday off to make all the panels, they're all flat, it wouldn't have taken long.


What actually happened was I put it all back together and it wouldn't start, nothing at all from the starter, zero, nada.

Went through the whole wiring loom, still nothing.

Tried a screwdriver across the solenoid, nothing

Took the starter apart and spent an hour putting it's fiddlyAss back together. Nothing


Finally put a meter across the battery and it was reading 9v


Oh





So, I put the jump pack on and it whirred straight to life. Great, now I need a new battery


But wait, it was grand the morning before, so I stuck the meter across when it was running and I was getting 18v, that's not good


I then smelt burning and notcied the regulator was smoking



Now pit bike stuff is cheap, but what it isn't is available on the shelf. It's all eBay etc



So I shelved it and took the barstool with me instead, which tried to kill me





Home now after an epic weekend, I revisited it.

Only things that could be wrong could be the stator, the regulator or the wiring loom

The regulator was toast, but I had a spare, still 18v. Starting to think it's the stator


I pulled the loom though, stripped it down and picked another wiring diagram from the internets which differed slightly


Re-fitted it, engine started instantly, checked across the battery, 12.4v now.



So I think i've solved it. 12.4v is on the low side, but it is a cheap chinese stator, so probably about right.





So I now have a couple of months to complete her before RRG

I thought it best not to bother you as you looked quite busy, plus we only had the barstool, so it would have been quiet lonely out there




The barstool was exceptionally useful in the 2 hour litter picking jaunt round the campsite



You know people? People are scum

I think we moved enough rubbish to fill a whole skip

I did get a free fire pit mind


Lots of gazebos, full bin bags, wood, food, bbq's, sleeping bags, tents, a random pile of cooked chicken wings etc

Jeez, that looks sketch. Bagsy a go at RRG haha.

After the beer keg in hot BBQ incident at RRG a few years ago the litter picking wasn't that bad.

She’ll of course be available for test drives, there’s no key😂


I remember a gas canister or paint tins at Shelsley

Panels


Best make some really, what we got? 45 days now till RRG


The front end seems the best place to start, it's probably going to be the hardest to make, well no, theinner wheelarches will probably be the hardest, but this is the fun one


Now with the best will in the world we all know this thing isn't going to be square, it was built jigless on the garage floor, so i'm going to be making templates, then transfering them to ally.

So, I started by making a rim of masking tape leaving a 5mm gap all round, I then filled it in with paper, I need to find some card in the future.




I then peeled it off and transfered it to the 2mm ally sheet




I was going to draw round it, but that would take time and be less accurate than a quick dose of matt black




I rough cut it out using the grinder. Ally does not cut well with normal discs, but it's all I had.

I clamped a straight edge to the panel and it worked surprisingly well, just had to tidy the edges up with a file




Rested it in place, happy with that. She's now got more of a face than the real one

I've also altered the gearing, I have no idea how fast it was going, but i'd say 35mph wasn't far off

Whilst 35mph is nice (and I'll be keeping the sprockets at hand for the Sunday track run) around the field it would be nicer to be slower, and by that, read torqueierierierier, spinnnnnnierierierier and hopefully more flip-people-off-the-backierierier


Currently a 13t up front and a 24t at the rear, swapped out for a 14t up front and a 36t up the rear



See how that works out

Grabbed a couple of hours

Bodywork!


Mounted her face permanently. I think the lights are a little smol, they'll get changed in the future




I cut out and tidied up the bonnet, dash top panel and the 'drivers side' body panels






Getting there now.

I still have to do the other side and the rear panel and paint it all up.

I really really need to sort out some inner arches as you get peppered with stones. These will have to be glued in as I can get in with the drill anymore