Okay, first up i,ve been a little slack in not posting up what Larry and i have been doing for the last 6 months.
As some of you will already know i havn,t raced since Bathurst in April, i was not happy with the cars performance after a xmas recam and freshen.
I took the engine down to Larrys in late April and after a tear down and inspection all looked spot on, but my backside dyno just wasn,t happy
The conversation wen,t from lets put it back together as is, to recam again, to well, you guys know how it works.
After a couple of months and strict money saving i had a box with all the good exciting go fast bits which included, DPR crank, Wiseco Pistons, Engle cam, Dave Butler machined and lightened flywheel a set of Larrry special new cylinders, new rings, bearing seals etc.
Larry went to work machining the case, cleaning up the heads before assembling the engine and running in the cam.
I installed the engine 2 weeks ago and today had my mate Allan fron Muffler Fit and Fix make me up a new muffler.
I wanted a longer head pipe inbetween the collector and the muffler to carry more exhaust pulses and therefore help with increased torque. Well thats the theory.
I need to paint it up yet but Allan did a top job of tucking the muffler under the rear apron for max ground clearance.
So here she is, my new 1999cc Hillclimb combo.

Cheers Col

Another angle.

Col

Looks very tasty!!

exhaust and motor looks good; I'd say that's about as good as a rear facing collector muffler gets!

Show off, nice Col

Good work Col, you will love the increased torque the stroker (and other Larry mods!) will give you

P.s. love the burnout marks on the garage floor !!!

Colin,

Looks GREAT!

Can't wait to see You at Some of the events Next year, All The Best!

From Dylan

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Originally posted by Craig Torrens Good work Col, you will love the increased torque the stroker (and other Larry mods!) will give you P.s. love the burnout marks on the garage floor !!!

Looks tops Colin. Cant wait to see you running with your new beast next year. Congrats & Tops!

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Originally posted by colin Quote: Originally posted by Craig Torrens Good work Col, you will love the increased torque the stroker (and other Larry mods!) will give you P.s. love the burnout marks on the garage floor !!! The devil made me do them! Cheers Col

I made some phone calls about getting my new muffler set up hpc coated.
Worked out to be approx $200.00 including freight to Newcastle.
I had a think and ended up buying a tin of VHT Engine enamel, this stuff is rated up to 350 celsius. You can also buy VHT Flame proff which is rated to over 1000 celcius.
While it,s not as good as hpc coating i,m happy with the final finish, and the cost $16.00.
Finished of the project with stainless steel socket head screws and nylocs.
Started up the car and heated up the system to cure the paint, now all done and ready for a dyno tune.

Cheers Col

http://www.borla.com/products/universal.aspx 

looks like a strong combo ,I used to run borla mufflers lasted for ever and sold it still in top nic when I parted out my car..

Col, what cam did you end up going with.didnt like the pauter cam?

Purchased a new set of Uni Filter socks, or as some people call them pods, for the carbs on the weekend.

First thing i did was wash all the oil out of them. I don,t recommend doing this with a street engine application but for me it lets the socks flow more air which on a prevoius dyno tune equaled another 4 hp.

Cheers Col

wow you must have had a lot of oil in them to gain 4hp !

Roll top velocity stacks will give you a gain too.......so might be worth changing to those as well

When I was dyno tuning mine there was no HP gain when I removed the air cleaners.......BUT.....I don't use the socks, just the K&N oval style.

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Originally posted by Craig Torrens wow you must have had a lot of oil in them to gain 4hp ! Roll top velocity stacks will give you a gain too.......so might be worth changing to those as well When I was dyno tuning mine there was no HP gain when I removed the air cleaners.......BUT.....I don't use the socks, just the K&N oval style.

dont go large hole roll top, stay around the same size.

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Originally posted by colin First thing i did was wash all the oil out of them. I don,t recommend doing this with a street engine application but for me it lets the socks flow more air which on a prevoius dyno tune equaled another 4 hp. Cheers Col

I don't have a hp figure, but with the EFI I found when I switched from oiled Unifilter's to the K&N style ovals (fuid'd up of course) that my A/F ratios changed.

Basically leaned off right across the rev range... only very slightly, but consistently. Since air temp etc. was the same and using TPS for tuning figured the K&N's flowing more air had to be the reason.

Like they say I guess - it's all 'dem little things....



btw - definitely looks the goods Col - given it a thrashing yet ???

This morning was the big day.
After Larry working his magic i took the car to my local dyno operator to tune the engine and see what all our research and hard work would amount too.
First dyno pull the so called heatproof paint blistered and finally caught on fire on my exhaust, not a good start.
After about 10 pulls from memory she spat out 146.6hp.
Very happy with the result.
Don,t take to much notice of the rpm graph on the bottom of the sheet, it,s a little out, about 800rpm.
Here,s the sheet and a link to the dyno pull.

Cheers Col



http://youtu.be/SWxXH_vwJ0w 

Good stuff!

Didn't think you had a hope in hell with that paint Colin

Thats a Fantastic result Colin I only had 98hp atw (111hp with the small "bolt" pulley) when I was racing in hillclimb........so with 146hp you will slaughter them !!!

And to think, you and Larry achieved 146hp with carbs and only 4 spark plugs !!

Fantastic Col!!
Good to hear your work continues to bring improvements

Looks like a nice engine but can someone explain how your HP figure can be accurate if your RPM figure isn't? I suppose the only dyno that matters is the track

Nice power Col. That pulley is tiny

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Originally posted by SuperOwen Looks like a nice engine but can someone explain how your HP figure can be accurate if your RPM figure isn't? I suppose the only dyno that matters is the track

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Originally posted by dangerous Quote: Originally posted by SuperOwen Looks like a nice engine but can someone explain how your HP figure can be accurate if your RPM figure isn't? I suppose the only dyno that matters is the track Those dynos usually calculate wheel power based on the roller rpm. The engine RPM scale is normally aligned with the tach in the car, or previous settings, since the RPM lead for the tach point for the dyno is probably too short to reach the engine at the back. Those are some great numbers Col and Keith!! Well done!!