Just so ya know I built mine almost exactly to the plans and the nose
came up way before the back came up so thats probably close to normal.
Now stick that tail out (4 foot back) and it'll prob be worse yet!!!
On Apr 23, 2:01 pm, Ken Roberts <for...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Apr 23, 1:06 pm, "David Bosworth" <d...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > My question at the moment is whether to move the engine right away
or
> > > to just drive around with ballast for a while.
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> > > I can't paint it until the engine is moved, and the metal parts are
> > > all bare. I'm thinking I need to get on with the final placement of
> > > things.
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> > What part of the craft did you place your ballast buckets?
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> > I would think about fini****ng the craft as it is and then going from
there.
> > Some of the balance issues may be overcome by final placement of
things,
> > where is the battery? gas? do you have a wind****eld on yet? I'm sure
you
> > know all this already but sometimes it helps to mention the obvious.
I am
> > sure the trim wing will help some too. Of course I don't know where
you
> > placed the buckets and how much they weighed.
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> > Hmmmm,,,, nothing like following the plans! bwahahaha
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> Ya, I went through all that I can't tell you how many times. Pretty
> much continually since I found out I put the engine in the wrong
> spot. Talked it over with UH, and with other friends who have built a
> lot of crafts. They all said try it first, so I did.
>
> The COG is supposed to be something like 77 inches from the back.
> Can't remember the number correctly, but I marked it on the hull. I
> added ballast to the front until it balanced on that point. I came
> out somewhere in the 60s if I remember right, but the key here is that
> when I sit in the craft and take off, the nose comes up WAY sooner
> than the tail does. It's two separate events, the nose comes up all
> the way, then the tail starts to come up.
>
> The gas and battery are both where the plans say. The battery is in
> the nose, and the gas tank is under the dash, but not yet mounted on
> the top of the tunnel. It's on the left side, because the catalytic
> converter is on the right side. That's something I should probably
> deal with soon, because I not only want to move the catalytic
> converter but I also want to add a muffler.
>
> Don't have a wind****eld, but I'm not sure I want one. Darvis
> Thornhill has his 18sp without one and I think it looks pretty sharp
> that way. Sort of the roadster look. I was thinking that if I go for
> a wind****eld, it should be removable so there's no trace it's gone.
> Part of a full enclosure, maybe? Most of the things I intend to add
> soon are already there.
>
> Come to think of it, I know how heavy the engine is and I can find out
> how heavy the mount is. Or better yet, I could pick the engine stand
> off, throw a cherry bomb muffler under it, and then scoot the whole
> thing back and forth until it balances with no ballast. If it's close
> to 3" closer, I can assume the rest is adjustable by regular trim and
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