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we need more people like you on this forum mate ;-)Quote:
Originally Posted by Preen59
Here's a pic of the car trailer. We've mostly got it done. Just small things now like the tow hitch, guards and wiring (and of course, paint). We're going to use a cam system to tilt the trailer (similar to a hay bail turnover) so it won't need ramps. I'll explain when we make them.
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I wet blasted my block today. Didn't come up too bad. I didn't do a spot on job of it, i just blasted the majority of rust and paint off to clean it up. I also blasted out the water jackets to give them a good clean too.
Of course, 10 minutes after it had already started to rust again :rolleyes:. But that's ok, i got it back to the workshop and coated it in CRC. So its now ready to go to the engine machine shop. Woo.
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Don't say things you might regret! j:Quote:
Originally Posted by gldgti
this 16v is going to be a crazy engine :D i got dibs going for a ride at nats first j:
Yeah it should be a bit of a rice burner hopefully. I'm hoping to take it to wakefield to beat the pants off the time this guy in town did in his piece of crap bolt on covered 165kw vtec integra. He can't drive a tack into a watermelon so it shouldn't be too hard. These guys in town all with jap cars call themselves the 'Circuit Club'. One time when they all went to wakefield, Garry Wilmington came up to one of them with a civic Vtec and said "nice car mate, mind if i take it for a lap?" So he took it out and did like 4 or 5 laps and went 3 seconds faster than him, then just came in and handed the keys back and said "yeah, it's not bad." Boy racers.Quote:
Originally Posted by GoLfMan
I don't think i'll have it running by the nats. I'd like to think i would, but it probably won't happen. Mainly because i don't have the cash at the moment to just buy everything and do it all right away.
But hey, next year, if i remember, you're first. ;)
yeh im not a big person for bolt on stuff, it takes all the skill out of "hotting up" engines i recon, any average Joe can do it.
i hope you do beat the pants off the VTEC infestation that'd show them.
Jarred and i were in his Laser when a rice boy Civic came up next to us cannon and all... even stevens to the speed limit and he was double clutching (what a wank!)
back on Topic, obviously your going to do a bit of flow work on the head, what size cams are you going to run? ohhh sweet im looking forward to that ride :D
Yeah, John Houseman, a mate of mine who owns Auto 1 in town (I get trade discount :D) has been building engines for years and has his own flow bench. The heads he does are a work of art, very nicely finished off. He has the head at the moment, and is going nuts with it. He's porting+polishing the ports and combustion chamber, aswell as making sure the cam tunnels are square.Quote:
Originally Posted by GoLfMan
The head will be running .5 oversize valves with reduced necks from Techtonics Tuning, with supertech HD valvesprings and Titanium retainers. and I'll be running TT 276 deg cams. The TT 276 cams should allow the engine to idle at about 1100 rpm or a bit more, and it should have enough low end torque to drive around town on the odd occasion. Ofcourse, it won't really make power till about 5000rpm and should make peak at a bit over 7, pulling all the way to the rev limiter which i'm going to set at 8,500.
Note with cams: it's very important to get the right cam for your application. Cams designed for injection won't necessarily work on carbies. Carbies (especially webers) work best with a cam with initial negative inlet opening. This means that the valve opens before the piston reaches TDC (Top Dead Centre). What this does is forces an atomised fuel mist out into the velocity stack, and allows a much better atomised charge to enter the cylinder. Hence, the TT 276 cams i have chosen to run with have about 5 degrees of negative inlet and are designed for carburettors.
It's also pointless to go with a bigger or more agressive cam than needed. If your induction system cannot supply the CFM (Cubic Feet per Minute) your cam profile desires, your engine will not benefit from the additional duration and lift of a larger cam. Your engine will just be cranky and may even perform worse than with the original cam.
So yeah, ported/port matched/polished head with Techtonics Tuning .5mm oversize valves, HD valve springs w/ titanium retainers and TT 276 sport/race cams. This setup is probably going to be on the verge of not being drivable on the street. :D
this engine is going to be the ducks nuts
and, as anyone Victorian can attest, you can't compare my laser to V-tec. I clearly win. all the time. duh. Cause I have Vtec. hectic bro. :D
haha lol. seriously, hadn't I already called shotgun in this josh??mI think I did
that engine is going to be mental, and sound mental :D!