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On 10/3/2012 6:33 PM, Max Welton wrote:
> The engine will be a 90.5x82 2110 with MegaSquirt FI, throttle bodies from an 1999 Honda Interceptor VFR800 and hydraulic lifters. I'll be applying everything I learned from my Megasquirt type-3 project to this engine. > > Max That's kind of what I've been thinking for my next VW engine, but bigger, and MS EFI... my thinking is that the EFI could support a bigger cam too, with better idle mixture, so I'd go HUGE with the cam, super squishies, heaps of CR. It would be purely a play toy, so I'd use up most all of any safety margins and go all out No idea what to use for throttle bodies. The ricer crowd here is buzzin about "ITB", Individual Throttle Bodies, but that's what we have been doing with carbs for decades. I would think that is still the way to go, just a different way to meter fuel. Been thinkin for over 6 years with nothing to show for it. Don't even have a VW in the US. The current engine has maybe 1000-1500 miles on it and still needs the last finishing touches to be perfect (Dyno tune). Love the thing, everything seemed to match and work well together. 90.5 x 80, custom cam with 310 deg advertised duration and total of 13.5mm lift at the valve, dual 45 dells... The heads are a bit of a limiting factor, I had to cheap out there as I knew I was leaving the car, and the country behind me for a good while.. They flowed 180hp at 12mm lift, not sure why the guy didn't keep going to higher lift, the graph was still climbing steep at 12mm. Guess he didn't think I'd go any bigger and I didn't think to tell him. The head porter said due to the "small" cylinder diameter, he somehow shaped the ports to turn the incoming charge to use more of the open sides of the intake valve, and less of the side where the cylinder wall gets close. Dunno about that. We've built high rpm big cam 1600-1800 engines with valve pockets cut to the side of the CYLINDER before.... No data to show if it helped or not. Seemed a bit insane at the time and probably was. Not much meat left in the head but these weren't built to last anyway. Max, if I ever get around to it, I'll pick your brain for sure jan |
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> Max, if I ever get around to it, I'll pick your brain for sure
> This should get you started. http://www.maxwelton2k.net/squareback68/MST3/ Max |
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On 10/4/2012 6:00 PM, Max Welton wrote:
>> Max, if I ever get around to it, I'll pick your brain for sure >> > > This should get you started. > > http://www.maxwelton2k.net/squareback68/MST3/ > > Max Awesome!!! Thanks. jan |
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> wrote in message ... I still travel for business fairly often and have seen a lot of this globe. I am a Network Engineer for a major manufacturer of Healthcare Electronics. Well that's it for now. Nice to hear from all the rest of you. I'll try to check back here now and then.... JH > That's a cool catchup John! I have a softspot for old Mercedes too! I would love a W116 450 SEL 6.9 (though not a US spec one with THOSE bumpers etc). It's be an awesome talking point... especially when popping into the garage every morning for gas :-) Interesting about your job - What company is it? WA by any chance??? I'm a tech in our local hospitals Biomedica./Clinical Engineering Department :-) We have 4 hospitals we look after that are covered by a WA Acuity system - in fact, I just got called out to it a 1AM! I'm loving your workshop too! I built my second house, which started off in planning stages as a 2 story barn with parking and worshop underneath. I could have easily fitted 16 cars down there. Then I got married...... It has a large double now, but I did have 4 cars in there for a while. I've built a small barn, which holds my Transporter and mowers etc, but I want a large 3 bay - But I refuse to borrow money to do it, and on 1 income with 2 kids now, it's a little way off. Hessisch would be AWESOME! There are about 13 Kiwi's going last count, which I think is pretty awesome! The photos they show are incredible. The palce itself loks amazing, but seeing all those vintage VW's in one place must get you going. It's just the right place for them too - like a movie set! Good to hear what you're up to. Hang around! Allan :-) --- news://freenews.netfront.net/ - complaints: --- |
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>"Max Welton" > wrote in message ... The engine will be a 90.5x82 2110 with MegaSquirt FI, throttle bodies from an 1999 Honda Interceptor VFR800 and hydraulic lifters. I'll be applying everything I learned from my Megasquirt type-3 project to this engine. Max < Man, that looks awesome! The type 3 is very cool too - I always wanted an early one. I was going to put a 250 HP subaru 3.0 into my Transporter, but that's been canned, as the deal fell thorough selling the 2.5 conversion I already have. So now... I'm wondering about putting Megasquirt onto my stock 1600TP in my 1200 Beetle :-) I had an early MS kit, when I was building a type 4 turbo motor. EFI is SO much better than carbs - the control is awesome and it's quite impressive how much fuel it saves! Allan. --- news://freenews.netfront.net/ - complaints: --- |
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On Friday, October 5, 2012 3:30:32 PM UTC-6, AllanW wrote:
> EFI is SO much better than carbs - the control is awesome and it's quite > > impressive how much fuel it saves! Well, I'm getting around 30-31 from the MS/squareback. The 1600DP in the baja gets 33-34 (in the summer) with an ordinary 34pic3. So carbs can do just fine. But Megasquirt is infinitely more adjustable once you get used to programming it. With my DCNFs, I was always waiting for another set of jets (at $8 a jet) so I could try something different. With MS I can try 5 different things in one afternoon just using a laptop. Max |
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AllanW wrote:
> > > wrote in message > ... > Wow, I felt a strange sensation just then, like my mouse clicked on Google > groups by some unseen force......? ;-) > > (That and Max alerted me with a samba PM....) > > Cool to see some old names here...... from "back in the day". > > Still have my '57 BTW, 13,500 miles on the clock. I'll be taking it to > Transporter day at Lars Anderson Museum in Brookline MA next Sunday... > > http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/348805.jpg >> > > Hi John! > > More of the old gang - I'm starting to feel like a teenager again! I might > have to talk the Mrs into letting me get some more VW's. We did have 7 > cars at one stage, but only one was a VW then. I'll need another barn too. > This one is full of "stuff" that's no longer allowed in the house, once > you're married :-) > > Allan. > > Jeez - I hadn't thought about that detail... Hopefully getting remarried soon, and it hadn't ocurred to me that some of my closest inanimate companions might be banned. Go figure... we let keep kids in the house and can't keep an extra car in the garage Chris |
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"ChrisKlinger" > wrote in message ... > Jeez - I hadn't thought about that detail... Hopefully getting > remarried soon, and it hadn't ocurred to me that some of my > closest inanimate companions might be banned. > > Go figure... we let keep kids in the house and can't keep an > extra car in the garage > > Chris Ahhh... if the stuff is already there, you may be able to pull it off... I was still planning, so the plans had to change to suit the Mrs :-) Allan. --- news://freenews.netfront.net/ - complaints: --- |
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... >Some of you might remember me, John. I had two Bugs and a kit car. One of >the Bugs was a '58 I bought from Mikah. John, good to see you back.... I think of the "old timers" of Ramva often... the new fangled web based forums are just not the same.... Hope your health holds out, and you check back in! |
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