Damn thunder storm..... Had a brown out and lost everything.
(4-hours later) SO. Where the hell was I...
The chassis is done, for now, and now for the engine. I want to say fun part but the whole damn thing was fun so it's a wash.
I waiting to decide on the size of the engine because I custom made a cutter, because the tool I want is indefinitely on B/O, that's being sharpened that will, hopefully, bore the case, heads and fly-cut the heads as well.
Engine #1 1835cc 92mmX69mm, est HP 110
Engine #2 1600cc(stock) 85mmX69mm, est HP 95
Yeaaaa, here's some tasty photo's of the car W/O engine but totally ready for one!
BrownChickenBrownCow.
And the start of the mad engine, bash my head into the wall I have two weeks but really 4 days to do this and then make sure it runs with the correct F/R and all that junk, dash.
Here is the winner!!! After tearing down six engines this one didn't have the middle main pounded out deeming to a line bore. I must have not run this one as a kid....
And a healthy pile of type one heads.
The pile of parts.
The magic pump. It's not magic but it's sweet. 2:1 single inlet dry sump pump. Same set up as the Salzburg Rally Beetle.
First stage, scavenge, pulls oil from the stock pick up, at twice the rate of the pressure pump, sends it to the oil tank, in my case through a filter, oil cooler then the tank.
The second stage, pressure, pulls the oil from the tank and feeds the bearing there life juice.
The reason I went this wrought is for a lot of pros vs. a little cons.
-The oil capacity of the type-1 is like 2.5-qts. Now it's 7-qts.
-I could have added a sump to the bottom of the motor but hanging an aluminum box 2"'s off the bottom of my engine with a lowered car on mountain roads, well, didn't seem legit.
-The type-1 stock set up is prone to oil pressure surge at high cornering speeds. Not now.
-The ability to displace weight, by storing the engine oil at the front of the car, greatly needed to reduce under steer.
-Adding the sizable oil cooler to the system means I can remove the stock oil cooler completely and re-work the fan shroud to seed all the air at a higher pressure to the heads and cylinders giving me the option for higher C/R's.
Also due to the pump I'll have to run a smaller crank pulley so the fan out-pull will be reduced making it necessary to modify the shroud. But there's some controversy about this because the fan starts to stall at 4000 engine RPM with the stock crank pulley. Well see.....
-Parasitic loss, I think that's what it's called. No oil in the case to hit the crank spinning at 5000-RPM and I need all the help I can get.
-last reason is I always wanted to install a dry sump system because there sweet.
CB's Chrome-moly, 69mm(stock stroke) C/W Crank.
And just some random before pic's an stuff.