CX500 Build - Fabricating An Aluminum Coolant Bottle and Radiator Fins!! - EP51

[Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] all right guys we're honing in on those final details of this thing and some of the items that i need to do i have to actually build one of which being the overflow for the radiator now in a stock format this would just have this hose running all the way back to the bottom of the bike and behind the engine here you'd have your plastic honda um coolant overflow bottle and you know it works fine and stuff but i just wanted to kind of build my own keep keep me from having to have a line over here so what i'm going to do take some schedule 40 aluminum pipe here and then i have a nice aluminum bung and cap setup from low brow customs and this is a vented unit i'm going to clearance this out weld that in there we'll have a nice real slim you know coolant overflow bottle we're gonna mount that about right there and then run a couple hoses and stuff keep it real clean and real simple so fix that and then because this is a later model cx5 or cx derived engine we have our our pcb system our crankcase breathers mounted on the inspection cover as well as the pulser cover here instead of the cylinder heads regardless what i want to do is build a catch can to separate the oil from the air instead of just you know dumping you know dripping oil vapor and oil deposits just straight onto the ground i want to try to separate that into a catch can so we're gonna route a few hoses to another pipe that's gonna sit behind the engine and be you know real compact and discreet and then over time you just drain a little bit of it and be on your merry way so we're gonna do that there's gonna be uh gonna be some fabrication for sure some welding and we're gonna have a good time so anyway stick around okay so i'm starting on the actual coolant overflow bottle here so what i've done so far is i've taken my uh my carbide bits and open this end up just a little bit for the bung to fit in so we have a nice a nice tight fit on this i've i've sanded the uh the bung here to get any kind of coating off of it and then i'm going to go ahead and clean it really well and i'm just getting set up here well just laying down some practice beads and stuff like that so i will hopefully buzz that in and then tomorrow i'll go and get some other aluminum and i can uh play it in the bottom and then i'll work on getting some tube as well so i'll probably wait till i get the tube first depending on how i want to try to weld it so anyway this is one thing i can do for now and then tomorrow get some plate maybe more kind of mount or something like that so yep and work on this stack some stacks and dimes i'm not the best welder by any means that's that's giving me a lot of credit i am not the worst welder by any means but i'm trying my hardest and the only way to get better is by is by practicing so i've got a lot of scrap material over there that i uh i practice on and you know even like this guy right here just just practicing different types of aluminum different types of steel different types of tungsten different types just practice so it's expensive too anyway i want to get it done [Music] so [Music] um [Music] so not too bad not too bad i had just the right amount of amps in that which was which was the worry i don't want to go melting it beyond recognition yeah good amperage on that one perfect man all right i'm stacking dimes okay i'll leave that there let it just heat sink cool down naturally yes this look good [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] so so there you have it we got a nice overflow tank here that i made um i did actually intend to weld some to some aluminum tube onto this but it turns out i really couldn't weld the tube being too thin so ran into some issues yesterday and this is uh this is the solution i came up with is these uh brass fittings which is fine you know i'm just being overly picky here so um if i had a little bit more capability on the welder i could probably get that done or if i find a different material so been trying to find some different stuff but so far this is gonna work and the operation of this is uh very simple so if the radiator you know gets hot enough and the coolant expands enough and it actually gets past the cap here it's just going to fill so we're going to initially fill this thing oh probably about right here a little on the high side and if it expands enough it'll force that liquid up and then it has an outlet right here so it is a vented cap as well so it has a little breather hole right there so there's not going to be any kind of pressure so if it does get that high it'll just dump out right here and drip on the ground which is fine but we want to try to keep as much in here as possible so then you know if we have a level in here it balances out once it cools it can draw it back in so that should work out fine it's easy to access it's a nice cap and i really dig it so one thing i didn't talk about is these aluminum plates here so i have one on either side and these are actually really simple they're just eighth inch plate there is a slight bend in there so a little tricky to do but that just kind of gives it a nice a nice side profile there a little bit more angle to it and i'm going to go ahead and set the tank on it so you kind of see how the lines play against the tank but just a cool little detail right now they're just brushed aluminum i don't know if i'm going to paint them or whatnot or heck i could polish them if i wanted but that might be kind of a large visual piece to polish so anyway probably keep it brushed for now until we get this thing painted and we'll go from there but anyway hope you enjoyed this one and i do uh i know i talked about the uh the oil catch can i want to make a separate video on that because i haven't started on it and so it's going to take a little bit more engineering to do so i want to make a separate video uh that's that's just tailored to that so anyway i hope this one was cool if you have any questions let me know in the comments i will definitely link the cap and just some other materials that i used so you can pick those up yourself and yeah that's it for this one i'll see you see you in the next video thanks you

Channel: Brick House Builds

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Rating: 5 out of 5

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Id: iYlhTXptT9s

Length: 13min 48sec (828 seconds)

Published: Thu Dec 03 2020