I picked up the manual motor I bought yesterday from the wreckers , couldn't start the ute, so I could move it to get to the trailer...so I got them to slot it into the back of the station wagon with a forklift. took all the ancillaries and heads off in the back off the car and then dragged it out onto a trailer plank on a box stand that I have( a rectangular box frame made from sq. tubing useful for all sorts of support jobs, different H,W and L so three different heights, uncannily useful). Then all we had to do was undo the bottom end, It all looked pretty good, bearings were all ok, looked as though it had been maintained.
So we have a few of the little bits and pieces that we use off them ...a good loom, set of injectors that look recently serviced,another throttle body,senders,lifters, a set of pistons and rods that are in very neat condition( we won't use em in the race motor but), heads number 9 and 10( sheesh) a very straight sump and undamaged oil-pickup( rare)and a collection of fasteners that we can always use.There are also a couple of pieces of stainless pipe for transfer tubes in the cooling system which are always useful.And, a manual crank which together with the flywheel , harmonic balancer and pressure plate will be going to be balanced.
Last night I paid for this......Still working out the most practical way to get it here...
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260480441735&viewitem=&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWAX%3AITWe will hit the practical,affordable,scared shitless point with the car in the next year or two..hopefully we might get close to Jack Kellys 236+mph E/GL record... but at that point we will need to find something else at which to direct our attention...... We will by then have a fairly well sorted motor, big heads , good valve train very aggressive cam..... that 181 Buick crank will put us 2ci under the engine break for F class and would by any reckoning allow the motor to turn just a little faster again. When we started the build of this car there were a few people who told us we wouldn't do 200 with the V6, we
shouldsee that next time we run fingers crossed, the local blown F class record is 211 or so. We're thinking it would be nice to run about 212 with a
naturally aspirated F class V6....... I thiiiiiink we might be able to do it.
That pipe dream will have to wait a few years, next racing year we will be fitting the ten bolt rear end allowing us to gear down. So we have the next four years or so laid out....
2011;E/GL 2.77:1,more power, better valve train. Aiming for 215+mph
2012; E/GL , E/BGL 2.41:1 ,same N/A set-up with possible low boost blower build ( same comp 9.6:1 or down to 8.5:1) Aiming for 235+mph
2013; F/GL 2.77:1 F class motor licensing Aiming for 175+mph
2014: F/GL,F/FL,F/BGL,F/BFL Aiming for 211+mph
Over the next few years I'll be checking back on this wish-list, If I get to tick half of it off I'll know I didn't aim high enough.
Dr G