Ready for Break-In, Big Jugs for Mr. D

Engine is ready for break-in, will be done with carbs
On a new engine it`s not a good idea to try out if something work or not

After the break-in, the fuel injection will take place on the engine

 

completely revised alternator by

 

http://www.zuendpunkt.ch

 

 

Next Project will be:

 

Big Jugs for Mr. D

 

 

Milling TypIV case

 

 

104mm that are Big Jugs

 

Uuups, 2 cylinders have not the same length

 

 

 

 

but who cares, I'm going to shorten the cylinder by 2 mm

and than the big jugs will have equale length!

 

Final Assembly, Nikasil Mahle Cylinder, Action shots

The Typ IV engine  for Rolf is now at the final assembly

Alternator will be rebuiled with new bearing, photos will follow

 

Mahle Nikasil-Cylinders for a nice engine project this winter ..........., no China junk ;-)
Report will follow

 

 

Few more action shots from Hockenheim

 

 

Spectators looking at the JPS slidevalve and the mechanical Kugelfischer injection

 

 

Hibernation, Rolfs Typ IV

Rolf reconditioned engine takes shape.

 

This engine is for his 412 LE and will ran with stock fuel injection

 

With a little upgrade this engine will make good fun next saison

Big bore pistons

Webcam camshaft

 

 

Reworked heads with redesigned combustion chambers

 

 

 

 

Hibernation for my Oval

 

 

Sleep well :-)

 

46. Akademisches Hockenheimring 02.11.2013

This Weekend was the last race-weekend for Walter Zwahlen  and his racing bug in 2013.

He finished the last race as he started in the saison 2013.

!! Winning !!


I am proud that I can provide this racingcar with the JPS Slidevalve and JPS HD aluminum pushrods .

Some racing impressions:

 

Preparing for the qualifying

 

On the track:

 

Uahh, wet race

 

No problem for Wallä, he likes to race on wet conditions

 

 

for such maneuvers out of Sachs Kurve you need big balls ;-)

 

 

Racing results you find here:

 

http://www.raceresults.at/SDOResult/2013/Auto%20Rennen%202013/46.%20AKADEMISCHES%20Hockenheimring/DASV%20-%20Lauf%202%20-%20per%20class.pdf

 

http://www.raceresults.at/SDOResult/2013/Auto%20Rennen%202013/46.%20AKADEMISCHES%20Hockenheimring/DASV%20-%20Lauf%201%20-%20per%20class.pdf

 

http://www.raceresults.at/Home/tabid/37/organisator/2013/mode/pdf/class/null/language/de-DE/Default.aspx?evenement=Auto+Rennen+2013&race=46.+AKADEMISCHES+Hockenheimring

 

 

Some pics of other racing bugs

 

 

Very nice racebug of Gerd Weiser GWD

 

Toni Seemeier`s racer

 

Jens Stoye

 

Viktor Konstanty

 

 

 

 

A small comparison in laptimes:

 

Fastest Lap Walter Zwahlen:  1:18,234

 

Fastest Lap Gerd Weiser with his son on board:  1:21,988

(very impressive)

 

Fastest Lap Toni Seemeier:  1:22,455

Cool Weekend and a happy winner!

 

 

 

Engine building, love it!!

This are some Projects I`m working on.



High Performance Typ1 Engine 1915cc, like my engine for 2013 (very nice)
As George from Portland said to me:
It feels like a 356  Carrera2 engine


Project Name: Coin of Five

Upgrade for a TypIV engine to 2412cc

 

 

 

 EFI 1776cc build, exactly according to the wishes of the owner ;-)

Ferdinand's Revenge Part 3

The next activity on my engine project is to select and modify the connecting rods and the lifters .
The picture shows the H-profile connecting rods after balancing.
You can see the grinding marks on the small end.
The weigth is within 0,2g balanced.

The connecting rods are 5.4 "long, because I prefer short connecting rods for street applications.

Weight stock connecting rods vs H-profile connecting rods



For the lifters I have also decided to use nice lightweight components,
These lifters and other lightweight components help to keep the valvetrain ligth and dynamical

 

ligthweigth lifters (53,4 - 53,7 gramm, per pcs. in this set)

 

 
Have a great week!
Pit

 

How you can destroy a VW engine

This week I have disassembled a broken VW engine.
The engine  had very low mileage and was a converted VW industrial engine
The pictures show why this happened.......

 

 

This is how the camshaft looks when the "Muppets" installed an oil pump that doesn`t fit.

 

Here was a 3-bolt oilpump installed instead of a oilpump for a 4 rivet dished camshaft

 

 

 

The chips and chunks came into the oil circuit and that`s it.

R.I.P

 

Ferdinand's Revenge Engine Project: Part 2

In Part 2 we will have a look on the heart of the engine : the Crankshaft

This is a forged crankshaft from the USA

The first thing is always quality inspection!

This crankshaft was ok from the measurements and it didn`t runout when I check it between 2 centers on the lathe.
For this engine I decided to make an additional heat treatment:

Teniferieren in german     or    ferritic nitrocarburizing in english


Check the links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferritic_nitrocarburizing

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teniferierung

After this was balancing: Uaah 30 gramms out of balancing!! at the first check.
But now it's perfect, alone and together with the flywheel and the Kennedy pressure plate.

Flywheel????

For sure JPS 3,3kg Cromo Flywheel

Have a great Weekend!

Ferdinand's Revenge New Engine Project: Part1

In the first part, I will show you some components and how I modify this.


This is the modified intake valve 42mm vs a stock 35,5mm intake valve

 

 

 

Weight of the modified 42 mm intake valve

 

 

Weight of the stock 35,5mm intake valve

 

 

 

 

only 2 Gramms between 42mm and stock 35,5mm .....

 

 

 

 

Line up of my valves

 

 

 

Next part follow soon:

 

Lifters

and

Valvesprings

and

Pushrods

 

Stay tuned!