[race_prep] 205 1.9 8V Hillclimb Car

[Baz 421]

Me too! Coming along nicely Alex! Roper is meant to be a bit of a legend, i might nab his contact details for future use if you would.

 

Where did you get those cams? That one is huuuge!

[welshpug 1,661]

gotta be 300+ those surely

[alexcrosse 124]

Yep, decided im porting it myself (hence the flow bench), but roper will replace and cut the seats for me... I like to do as much as I can myself which is a downfall really, LOL.

 

I got the cams from a chap at work, he built a few hotrod 205 engines years ago which made nice power (240) and had a few prototype cams from piper taking up space... next couple of days and ill no about cam duration. Ive got a feeling they are around 328 degrees, but im going to measure them all and then pick the lowest duration I think... they are all different as they were supplied to allow him to find the optimum for his application. But the lowest im sure will still be wayyyy over 300 degrees lol.

 

Cheers,

 

Al

Edited October 24, 2011 by alexcrosse

[TT205 42]

Are you after a tiny tiny powerband then?

[Miles 331 1 Cars]

Make sure you use the right oil for those cams or the buckets die, And not wanting to put a downer on things but I've known more than one of those Piper cam's to snap in half too so might be worth X raying to check it first.

[alexcrosse 124]

Cheers for the advice miles didnt think of that! ill check to see what they ran in the race engines at work, you got any recommendations? The chap tested a lot of these cams with piper and had no failures, so I'm fairly confident, but I will have a word and see what he thinks.

 

Picks of the shonky flow bench to come tomorrow. Also got some sort of suspension sorted which is a weight off my mind!

 

Cheers,

 

Al

Edited October 24, 2011 by alexcrosse

[alexcrosse 124]

Manometer up

 

I like

 

Burrs came for ripping meat out heads

 

Cheers,

 

Al

[Miles 331 1 Cars]

Cannot recall now, but with a oil from Sunoco,

[alexcrosse 124]

Ok, took the meat out the head to let the cam rotate tonight, which took a while...

 

 

then several hours, alot of tipex and putting the cam in and out and...

 

 

Will smooth out tomorrow after cam measuring excitement, lol.

 

Cheers,

 

Al

[Tom Fenton 1,542]

No egg sucking, but the easiest way to check a cam is with a pair of v blocks and a dti on a steel top bench, you can then relieve the head to suit the cam you intend to use

[alexcrosse 124]

similar cams, only slightly different so they all fit now. Its a complete ball ache measuring cams like that, just rotating a cam and measuring straight off the lobe will push the DTI to the side, much better to do it in a head to measure duration.

 

Cheers,

 

Al

[alexcrosse 124]

bad pic, but much better, and some yokes

 

Also got the pedal box off ready for some fab next week.

[alexcrosse 124]

So decided bias pedal boxes were a rip off so have started making one.

 

 

boss welded in for bias bar

 

brake pedal done

 

yawn

 

in the box with the back cut out ready to weld in 2mm rear plate to close original hole and then the spreader plate for the masters.

 

sorry for the rubbish pics, phone battery was low so didnt have a flash for half of em.

 

Cheers,

 

Al

[alexcrosse 124]

got the plate in the pedal box and welded in

 

 

 

Cheers,

 

Al

[lemmingzappa 75 1 Cars]

Good to see you on here Alex, keep it up

[willo-1 0]

great project looking forward to more updates...,

[alexcrosse 124]

cheers willo, been busy moving house sadly, so not too much done, finished the fab on the pedal box last night but forgot to take pics, also sorted out some second hand coil overs, mounts, rear damper and uprights for it. So will be building up a new rolling front subframe over the next week, hopefully thatll be in next weekend with any luck...

[alexcrosse 124]

got the smallest amount done over the last couple of days, but its been cold, and ive been miserable so progress is limited

 

Pedal box body done and painted

 

 

disassembled and cleaned up the top caps and seats for the coil overs

 

same with the top mounts

 

cleaning up the uprights next week and painting them, then hopefully bolt together the front subframe at some point next weekend (best case).

 

just want to aim to get the front on its propper suspension now.

 

Cheers

 

Al

[Cameron 16]

Oooo they cleaned up nicely!

 

Should have left the engine bay pink too.

[Baz 421]

Sexy pedal box!!

[alexcrosse 124]

haha, cheers cam, ill let you no when ive finished getting all the surface rust off the dampers in about 9 weeks =p LOL

 

Not exactly my best welding Baz but itll do for what it is, just needs to not break when I brake! lol

[Cameron 16]

Yeah have fun with that!

 

What the hell happened to your mate's hand btw? Looked like some pretty savage blistering!

[alexcrosse 124]

oh i will dude, literally cant wait!

 

the story begins "after a few drinks we were standing in a bonfire when.... " lol

[alexcrosse 124]

How do... Got a bit done this weekend, picked up another subframe so I could do a straight swap and save time rather than cleaning up my own

 

doner subframe stripped and cleaned

 

seam welded in places that I thought it could do with...

 

primed

 

painted

 

springs and 309 arms also painted

[alexcrosse 124]

out with the old

 

ready for the new...

 

coil overs cleaned and built up

 

arb brackets got a paint too along with the bar

 

all bits cleaned up ready for assembly

 

poly bushes pressed in and arms on

 

arb in with poly bushes and car dropped onto subframe

 

hubs on... do need to clean a bit though!

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all on

 

oh, and built up the pedal box

 

just need to sort out what im doing with brakes and source a quick rack for it now and thats the front suspension done, can move onto the back

 

Cheers,

 

Al