Hi Wally, is the water tank for water injection?

Yes, actually it has 50% methanol content.

Hey Wally, I've got 100% methanol right now, any reason I should or shouldn't be running 50/50 mix?

Jason

Yes, lots of reasons not to use 100% meth.
Too much, too long explanantion with many arguments on the practicle and performance side to the why of that, sorry.
I've have come to the conclusion 50/50 is best.
YMMV ;)

Certainly half as expensive! Thanks, I'll use distilled water then?

Jason

...plus 100% is flammable.

Yes, definately! Regular water contains salts which will block your jet(s) openings after a while.
The (non-visible) flammable part is one of the many reasons not to use 100% or even 75% meth iirc. At 50/50 is non-flammabe anymore as well. Not sure where exactly the border is, but its a moot point.

Last week I took the engine apart as I wanted to have the case machined for a different cooling system (more of that later when its all worked out) and another cam to try out.

Good thing I did as all bearings and heads, pistons, cylinders were still in tip-top shape, but the rods were surely not!
http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w...2.jpg~original

One has had a movement is 2 directions, but two others were just bend one way :D Before discussions start if this was the limit of stock rods: NO, its not; this was all caused by boost-cuts of the ecu causing huge back fires that even snapped two rockers if you can remember ;)

http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w...3.jpg~original

Fortunately Jake still had a set of slightly used Pauters, so those are underway :D

Does this mean that you got another set of 1.7-1.8 spec rods?
Or are you going to be getting a crank upgrade?

I look at those "stock" rods,
ANd there sure was a lot of nice work put into them.
Nice trophies for sure!:D

Not yet, but these are underway :D
http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w...s.jpg~original
The nice thing about the 74mm stroker I still have is that its got the same big end journal as the 1.7/1.8 ltr 66mm crank :)
The problem is the cylinders had to be cut back very short so its doubtfull 8mm more stroke is seen as still safe for how far the pistons will come out then...
But I am sure you know what would have my vote :lmao:
You got that right: LOTS of work went into them ;)

wow, I can't believe the rods bent so bad, that it's very visible in the pictures.. and still nothing failed.

Is the crank still straight?

Braden

Don't know yet as I haven't got the sort of equipment to measure that myself, but crankshaft is spotless and must be straight as all main and bearings were super nice as well:
http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w...5.jpg~original

http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w...1.jpg~original

http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w...9.jpg~original

Wow. Looks like you caught those just in time. They are wall hangers for sure.

That coulda been messy! Good thing you tore it down!

Hey Wally, have you selected a turbo for the 1200cc motor yet?

Yes indeed, had it for some time already now: its the stock turbo from a 2.0 wrx subaru: TD04L-13T. The 04L is a very small hot side, will be perfect for the little 1,2 I think. It spools the 2 ltr suby at 2,5K already I read, so 'normal' spool for the 1,2 should be possible. They are also very cheap to pick up from ebay: a 100 (whatever currency) will get you a good one most likely.
I am equally excited how this will turn out tbh ;)

Just don't become sensible and permanantly trade small displacement and gas mileage over bigblock power :D Remember you do have a reputation to hold!

Wow those rods are unreal!! i wonder how much longer they would have lasted. just goes to show much much strain they can go through before they do go bang!
definately looking forward to your progress with the 1200 motor....good luck
Deano

Nah, there's no reputation. Remember, this is all the internet; I may as well not exist and all you've seen are computer animations :D

On a serious note I am seriously looking to my still patiently waiting 74mm 'stroker' and how far out of the bores the pistons would really come with this one.
It would mean a displacement of 2466cc :D

LOL! Yeah,actually you're just a myth! :D
I would go with the 74mm crank too.You may have to use cylinder spacers,but that's no problem.You can make them any thickness you need.

Just received the new centrally positioned cooling system with 964-style housing from MSS :cool:

Some intitial pics:
http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w...fterMSS027.jpg
http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w...fterMSS024.jpg
http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w...fterMSS022.jpg

Nice! Markus does really nice work!

Wally rules. hehehehehe

Vid from the dyno day last november with the 2,2ltr ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckZTZ7x7IjI


Thanks Jeroen!

The new cooling system looks nice. Will a lot of rework of your intake system be needed with it compared to the horizontal setup?

Not much really I suspect, allthough usually you don't anticipate everything in a build as we all know too well. It will be nice to get a push-pull linkage again though ;-)

I bought a type 4 engine and your car is one of the stars in my “map” to follow! Hope you don’t mind..?
What are you going to do with intercooler? That tail was your “logo” in my eyes ;) Looking forward for updates!

No worries Scardeep: Intercooler stays there!
Not much updates yet, will be several weeks before parts are machined.

1200 turbo engine is now up and running again and with a FK7 and 1,4 ratio rockers.
Its "a bit" on the wild side for a 1200cc engine, but rocks from 3K rpm onwards.

First time on the wastegate (leaking BOV though) and up to 6200 rpm :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNkOkUwHHK8

Dynoday in Germany (near Hamburg) is on the 28th april...

I'll definetly be there! I'm really looking forward to finally meeting you after all these years!

Got a feature in a general tuning mag :D

http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w...l.jpg~original

SWEET. You are very deserving of some press.

very NICE... well Deserved

Noice!

...Got a link to the magazine website, wouldn't mind seeing if I can get a copy onto my iPad.

-Dave

Congratulations, about time you got some press recognition!

Tnx fellows!
Dave, this is their web-site:
http://www.autoentuning.nl/

http://www.autoentuning.nl/?p=3928

Cover of the issue and the content page (as far as I am allowed to post):
http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w...g.jpg~original

http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w...d.jpg~original

Congratulations Wally! I agree,well deserved and long overdue! Why is car in race magazine? Because race car :lmao:

Very cool Wally! Congrats! :cheers:

Cheers!

In the meantime, I started on the revamp of the 2,2 engine beginning with the new central cooling lay-out:

http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w...7.jpg~original