Norton Nemesis rebuild

baz said:
Just watched the current episode
The thing that has struck me all the way through is how good some of that machine is and how bad it is
The exhaust
Various brackets
Some of the machining
It's still enthralling to watch (for me) and expect many others
Bust jeez there's some bad hidden gems in that bike!
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Gems like rotten Easter eggs. :)

Maybe they can talk Guy Martin into taking it to Utah. That could be entertaining.
 
Its a prototype not a finished design hence the use of parts from other bikes and the less than ideal unequal length of headers. It may have had a full set of finished drawings but prototypes do not have access to the production tooling hence the need from compromises to keep costs down and to meet a target date.
 
kommando said:
Its a prototype not a finished design hence the use of parts from other bikes and the less than ideal unequal length of headers. It may have had a full set of finished drawings but prototypes do not have access to the production tooling hence the need from compromises to keep costs down and to meet a target date.
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Yep I totally get it's a prototype
But the quality of some of the work!!!
Those exhaust pipes look as bad as some of the ones I have made 😳
 
The exhaust would have been one of the last items as you need virtually everything else in place, so in a rush no doubt and probably used the cheap office junior ;) .
 
Episode 15 is out. He nixed the throttle bodies and his intake manifold and exhaust and went with the original setup for fueling the engine and the exhaust.

Don't need no stinking mufflers
 
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There is Youtube video out that has Millyard starting the Nemesis at the Museum it will end up in. It's long and not like the other home videos. There is a mention of trying to break the land speed record. I don't know how serious that effort is though. Seems more like a joke to me.

Link to video
 
Schwany said:
There is Youtube video out that has Millyard starting the Nemesis at the Museum it will end up in. It's long and not like the other home videos. There is a mention of trying to break the land speed record. I don't know how serious that effort is though. Seems more like a joke to me.

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given that the current record for that class is not excessive, I think they will get the new record.
 
jan nelder said:
given that the current record for that class is not excessive, I think they will get the new record.
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Yeah, it's a low bar. They will definitely get a record for a Norton Nemesis if it finishes the requisite runs to obtain a record.
 
they are doing a thorough job in bringing a very ‘thrown together’ prototype up to working state, after a long time sitting untouched. And we get to see the youtube films of it being overhauled by a very skilled engine modifier/builder who is very well respected in the UK. And he is now part of the only bike show on British TV. ( Allen Millyard)
 
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speirmoor said:
Thoroughly enjoyable. Good sparkplug tip that. Then he drops off the ambulance bit at the end as if it was nothing but it was 3 weeks to get sorted out !
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Yes. I have been doing cooking off of plug carbon using propane torch for a couple of yrs now, seems to work well, no ill effects. Resistor plugs measure same before/after.
 
To be honest, and knowing that the early 961’s suffered from rusting fuel rails, I’m surprised Alan didn’t make, or have made, a new non ferrous one.
 
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I honestly wish when they had originally started to attempt to do this ‘rebuild’ that it could have had a massive blow up from which it couldn’t be saved. Every time Allen starts to work on it, something else that was originally bodged, makes it a monumental effort from him to redesign it to incorporate off the shelf or existing parts eg CBR600 throttles and such like.

It is quite obvious to me as a non-engineer just how badly designed it was originally, seemingly created as a lunchtime special by the newest apprentices.

I have no doubt that Allen will sort it finally, but to what end, it was always and forever will be a pile of shit.

You only have to watch his personal YouTube videos of how he created his own masterpieces, like the Z1 super 6, and his 4/5 cylinder Kawasaki 2 strokes. Also his take of reusing pieces left over to put together a 500cc twin from old triple engines. The man is a genius and to be there putting right that Norton abomination is beneath him.
 


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