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[Alan R]

Hello Paul, --- Blimey !!A 6.51am posting, you're keen? ---nice to have met you an the lads at Mad Mike's do recently. Sorry--- just couldn't resist putting that last sentence in--- actually you are quite right of course, the economics do make v. good sense indeed. I was just taking BW's idea a stage further by thinking that if a conversion kit were readily available how many more might be tempted to go for the Compression/Ignition route ?? I know I would. can you give a link to some diesel sites to have a look at the various options available ?? I'm planning a week-end ride to your neck of the woods next spring so will call-in and buy a pint!!

[grunda 12]

hi alan,i,m up early for work,there are various sites ,some are missleading or did i get it wrong who knows on my meds,diesel bike .net is a resonable site with photo,s of conversions etc,there was a guy in the 50 or 60,s who converted a norton engine to diesel his name escapes me dorsey something or other anyway all this thinking has made me dizzy ,good to see you at mad mikes ,which incidently was a great doo well done mike i,m listing you in demi god like status watch out for the oil leaks !! only kidding ,just trying to seal the diesel primary bloody aft looks like gallons probably not a thimble full although it does oil the drive chain,.atb paul. donk donk!!

[Alan R]

------it wasn't LEE DORSEY cos he was "workin in a coal mine, Goin down,down,down.."----and that was 5 'o' clock in the morning, too !!-------try this }----- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsoa1wHJT2E -------- I don't remember it myself !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Beezabryan]

advice for bryan move to the country for fresh air you,ll not get non down the smoke although i,ve been known to polute the countryside with my oil burning!!..................My name is Bryan with a capital B thank you and you obviously have no idea who I am or where I live, but then why should you.............

[Bullet Whisperer]

Hi Alan R and Les, what I had in mind was to keep the carb and petrol system [because it's already there anyway] and IF this thing fired up on petrol and kept going when switched to diesel, that would be the first hurdle overcome. The throttle slide could meter the air intake [as on my old Transit, although I have virually jammed that fully open], a dual throttle cable operating the carb slide and injector pump throttle control. The standard bottom end will handle 10:1 compression [perhaps not for as long as 7:1, mind], this ratio might be somewhere in the zone for the engine to run on either fuel. Different ignition timing requirements could be handled by two switchable cdi boxes, giving different timings and advance curves, as required - remember, the distributor would probably have to go to allow an injector pump to be driven at half engine speed, which brings me to either an Electra or an Electra X as a possible guinea pig, with their crankshaft ignitions. The Electra X has a good combustion chamber with squish band and flat top piston, but the head would need drilling for an injector to go in, also the timing side idler gears would need reinstating to drive an injector pump. As for what anything like this may run like [if at all] is anyone's guess, but I have an open mind about it for now. Paul.

[grunda 12]

hi Bryan,my comment was purely a harmless one, you did mention london buses and taxi,s why take offence when none intended atb paul.

[Beezabryan]

I did read your comment a few times before responding Grunda but sometimes what is intended is not easily converted to print.......I have been guilty at times of not using the right words to write what I mean...........A good case for an "edit" facility?........I am sorry for being sharp but diesel exhaust & me are not the best of friends......I jacked in working in London 15 years ago and to give you a clue about my present whereabouts - I called in at MadMikes Meet at 13.30 on my way home from a BSAOC weekend camp in Cumbria. Rode 45 miles north afterwards........Thread hijack over