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!

 

 

IROC RSR, 910, 956 and Porsche Bug at the Historic Hillclimb Altbüron 2013

IROC History

In October 1973, twelve of the top drivers in the world were invited to participate in IROC, the International Race of Champions. They competed in a series of four races, in which all equipment was equalized. The drivers were from Formula One, USAC, NASCAR and the SCCA.

The car was the 1974 Porsche Carrera RSR 3-liter racecar. Fifteen identical cars were ordered by Porsche, with 318 horsepower RSR engine.

 This car was the spare car for the IROC 1973!

 

Here you can see the fantastic engine. Twin-spark, Bosch mechanical injection pump and the  special small Fan and the High Butterfly Throttlebodies.

 

                               

                                very nice!

 

 

I found a Porsche powered Bug too!

 

 

Widebody and Top chopped with a 3-l engine, sounds great  with his straigth pipes

 

Have a look on the engine

 

 

Porsche 910 was in Altbüron too

 

 

Porsche 956 in a line, pure racing history

 

!!Is a great Event don`t miss it the next time!!

 

Back from Holidays

Some pics from our vintage holiday trip

 

 
                                                with the train from Feldkirch to Vienna

 

Zwentendorf

Never opened nuclear power plant :-)

 

 

 

 

visit the world heritage monument Sift Melk

 

 

 

 

Schloss Orth am Traunsee

 

 

 

 

Bad Ischl

 

                                                        
                                                                 Burg Hochosterwitz

 

Nice views

 

 

 
                                                               beautiful evenings

                                           
                                                                      good car

 
                                                                best driver ;-)

 

with the train back from Villach to Feldkirch

 

Perfect Holidays, thanks to all friends !!

Torque Master Layout

The Torque Master project is on the way

This engine project will run on a single 34 PICT-3 Carburator

                                    orig. manifold and JPS custom intake manifold

 

Exhaust will be a stainless steel from vintage speed

 

Link for Exhaustsystem:

http://www.vintagespeed.com.tw/Exhaustsystem/Exhaustsystem-main.html

 

 

 

with the carburetor on and the airhorn on top

 

 

 

 

Black Magic und Torque Master Update

The first Kilometers are done with the Black Magic engine

 

Looks great in this beautiful 1960 Convertible

 

 

 

Cool down for valve adjustment

Checking the ignition curve on the 1-2-3 tune

 

 

Torque Master Project

 

 

This is the crankshaft for this Project

 

 

SCAT Forged Crankshaft

 

 

 

Checking deck heigth

 

 

 

Longblock is ready

 

 

 

 

Bitburg & Molsheim

Some pictures from Dragracing in Bitburg and Cox Show Molsheim


The weather conditions were very changeable in Bitburg.
With some rain breaks, Wallä Zwahlen could complete 12 runs with his street bug.

His silver Bug did the 1/4 mile in 13,9 seconds! and this with "only" 2l  engine with 44 IDF and with 175er rear tires
(no Slicks)

Wow!!


His engine is equipped with JPS HD Aluminium Pushrods and a 3,3kg JPS Flywheels,
revs up to 7200rpm every run easy!

Wallä has built a very nice engine

 

 

 

Some impressions from the Cox Show in Molsheim

 

 

Torque Master Project

A new Engine Project is on the way

The goal for this Project is to have a max. Torque to push a T2a Bus.

 

Cylinderhead on the milling machine

 

 

 

Case and heads are ready

 

The Camshaft will be a special!

with a brand new grind

 

On my last trip to California I visit WEBCAM in Riverside.

The Ladys are brillant there.

Special Thank`s to Debbie!

 

 

Pistonweigth incl. pin and rings

 

Crankshaft and flywheel are out for balancing