Balancing the throttle bodies with a pair of vac gauges.

I was going to take the roof too but I thought if I kill the roof it's probably a right off, dunno

i have a proper carb balancer Craig if you need it.

Can bring it to Hirstglen.

I was going to take the roof too but I thought if I kill the roof it's probably a right off, dunno

 

Not necessarily a write off. You can roll and crumple a roof but not mess up the roll cage. Guy did that over here with his escort recently. I'm sure you could salvage the roof skin with a lot of panel beating, but sometimes easier to cut and shut a new section into it. Even if you bend a leg of a cage, that leg can be cut out and replace it, just depends on how much the rest of the shell is worth to you and time of building a new car vs time spent repairing bent car.

Thanks Chris,

These vac gauges work really well, and they can be balanced with out having to remove the filters.

Everything is on track for its first run on the 16th.

See you at Hirstglen.

 

Got the Terraphone fitted and wired today between other jobs.

 

 

Not necessarily a write off. You can roll and crumple a roof but not mess up the roll cage. Guy did that over here with his escort recently. I'm sure you could salvage the roof skin with a lot of panel beating, but sometimes easier to cut and shut a new section into it. Even if you bend a leg of a cage, that leg can be cut out and replace it, just depends on how much the rest of the shell is worth to you and time of building a new car vs time spent repairing bent car.

 

Yeh was thinking today maybe I should grab it, even if I got caught in a bad hail storm or something who knows, I'll cut it off on Monday haha

Wiring is done. Had some help to get the Ke30 wiper motor connected to the RA60 Celica washer/wiper switch. That stuff will fry your mind.

 

Finished of the boot with a tool box.

Air filters are here this week and then off for the dyno tune.

Bonnet now has a coat of anti glare satin black and the filter socks have turned up.

Looking sweat Craig :thumbsup: any chance of a dyno run video ? just to tease us with . I really hope this little Rolla goes as hard as it looks I will keep following with interest :yes: . Cheers:- Stuart :wave:

Thanks Stuart.

It went to the dyno on Friday,"had the video cam ready" but the first development bug has shown its head already.

After some mid range tuning, we dropped the running in oil before the full power runs and noticed a little to much metal in the oil.

Pulled off the tappet cover and found that the cams are so big they are just wiping the edges of the buckets and slowly grinding away.

Got the head back off for some more CNC work to bore out the bucket slides for over size buckets.

 

The joy of race motors.

"How to make a small fortune in motorsport?"

"Start with a big fortune"

Looks amazing as always. Are you going to run the events with just sock filters in an open bay? Or are you planning on capturing and filtering cold air with some system in future? This is a real 10 tenths sort of build, I'm surprised that you would run sock filters. Having run them a few years on a road car, I'm a bit suspect on their filtration quality.

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I'm a bit suspect on their filtration quality.

 

I always have been too, but I've got no figures to show that they are any worse than paper. Hence all the agricultural panel steel on The Girls KE70 for an airbox with a paper filter.

I will have to make a custom air intake/filter system in the future, but for now the socks will have to do.

The dyno tuner will tune it with the socks and then do a run with them off to see just how restrictive they are.

Some people have said they will stop more dust than a K@N which I believe as my old engines always seemed to have a fine dust in the intake with the K@N filter.

The flat panel filter is the best for performance if its paper or oiled foam.

I used to have uni filter socks on the ida on my Mazda. Above about 5000 rpm at full throttle they would actually get sucked down into the trumpets! Keep an eye on them on the dyno, see if they start to move at all.

Updates! Updates! Where are the updates?! :)