The project will jump back and forth on several aereas of interest and now for some more engine stuff :
On the _Micro Micra project and other Micras i have played with i have used a spacer between the inlet plenum and the throttle body.
It serves as a flow enhancer and increased inlet plenum volume hat helps out a bit and on this project it will have several other functions as well.
On the MAxi Micra i will make on in aluminium just for the fun of it and here is how i do that:
First i find some ALu-junk pieces from a container of the local workshop and put it in a wice and mark up the lower part of the spacer
I just use a gasket as a guide and a marker pen onto the piece of metal
Cut of the piece that I need with my mill
Then ill go ahead to mill out the piece as needed:
Do it manually without any complication even if my mill is a cnc version.
Next step is to drill the hole-pattern of the mounting plate against the inlet plenum
Now the lower part of the spacer is finished with its corresponding holes drilled :
Now for the upper part of the spacer , where the throttle body is fixed onto .
That is done in the same manner.
This part will have a round hole for the throttle blade aera and then I measure the dia of how big it has to be.
I am going to use both the oem 1,3 dia body and the larger Almera ga16 later so i choose the later`s dia when i make this plate.
To centre the workpiece I use this simple indicator
Accurate within a couple of hundres of a millimiter , good enough for an amateur like me.
As i mentioned my mill has cnc capacities so i just pop in a circle-mill program that give me the diameter i want it to mill
This can of course also be done in a lathe or a mill with a roundtable if you like.
There we have it , our finished hole.
Then I mill a groove for the idle-regulator to work through under the throttle-body.
I have used also here the gasket as a quick reference.
Here we are , the end product
More of the spacer build to come soon…