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Tis a pretty mean beast you got there

Clearing out camera and found these pics from the nats. Fronte and Kpizzle: Oldschool small car vs Newschool small car. Oldschool wins: Bought another parts fronte this weekend. Was cheap as chips. Has had the whole arse end cut out and a civic motor put in it. The motor was in parts tho so no skids . Bought it mainly for panels to make fiberglass moulds. Will eventually do an engine repower with this one seing that it has already been cut up. Outboard FTW!! Looks pretty good: Bit of rust in the corner of the back window. Nothing i havnt fixed before : The motor in place. Hollow. no head. Rocker cover sitting ontop. Will probably scrap it as it would need a full rebuild to get going. And also If I do a repower, I will do it the extreeme way I really have to finish my original fronte. Only needs paint now. but yea....

You could run it along the firewall maby? That should be legal. But dont see why it wouldn't be legal running it along x-member.

I like the new tail-lights too. Look way better, design wise ans well as condition Ans yea. Agree with Mikuni on those wheels Fuck Yes

Couldn't find a post on this so meh, Good to see the ball is starting to roll. This car is going to be SO cool to restore!! Soon as you told me about it, i wanted to see it done! And now you are getting serious Mean boe

OH Snap! What for?

Both look good actually. I do like the dark centers of the wats tho. 17s suit the car better. IMO But needs to be low Ultra low FTW Still lovin the mustard. Eternally cool

Yes, Me too!!

Lancer = tuff Starion = Mean Widebody FTW!!!

Can't wait to see/hear this when its done. thmini = sorted

Its the factory one. So its most likely shit The Pre H.E. fuel rails were really bad. The ignition amplifier wires would crack in the heat of the "V" then it would arc across to the fuel rail. after thousands of miles of that it would eventually eat through and viola... 32psi fuel fed engine fire/flame thrower!!! Haha Does the job though. Why were people advising u against that type of fuel rail?

Yea. The 60bhp is if everything thing was perfect. It will probably only end up making 40bhp or so. Probably even less than standard cos of my 133t welding skillz. But it will be fun. Can also experiment with free-er flowing reed valves, jetted carbs etc. At the end of the day. Its never going to be a speed demon. You can only do so much with 360cc's Its quite funny on that program. You can make 500bhp per cyl!!!! it just gives an 18 meter long expansion chamber that operates at an average temperatur of 18,000 degrees and runs at 200 atmospeheres . The ones i am trying to make run at 650degrees and about 9.5psi. Bout the same as a motorcross bike. So should be ok. There is also the horn coefficient which determines the norrowness of the powerband. I made it have the widest powerband possable. Otherwise it won't be very drivable Will just have to make them now and see if they work.

Got an engine lift today. Was really difficult transfering the load from the broken block and tackle to the engine lift. Did it in the end and got the motor out. So satisfying: The fuel rail i had chromed. Went for standard high pressure fuel line with hose clips insetad of pushlock stuff. Looks way more mechanical in my opinion: And for a laugh. Epic compared to a fronte motor & gearbox & exhaust. Mind you, most things are epic compared to fronte motors Will order an alloy flywheel this week from US of A. Due to the favourable exchange rate. By getting a new flywheel i can choose my own clutch combo etc. Which will be good That is all..

Tried to take the engine out this weekend so i can size up gearboxes/flywheels/clutches. Was all going well. As well as british cars can go. My GOD there are some horrible designs. Bolts with access that only allows 1/32th of a turn at a time. With like 5cm of thread . Wasnt much fun. Got it all prepped and ready to take engine out: Started taking the engine out: Was all going fine till the block and tackle ceized. Was no going up or down. Just spent the last 2 hours trying to get it going again!! But no luck. SO frustrating!! Will have to rent one tomorrow or something: Rather annoying. But Oh well...

Havnt been doing much for with the fronte lateley. In the Uni holidays i sat down and made some templates for expansion chambers. Used a simpla as program called exhaust. I enter in the exhaust port timing. The size of the cylinder. The size of the exhaust port. And the power i want to make. It only calculates it for one cylinder. But you just do it the same for all cyls. I aimed for 20bhp per cyl. Which would make 60bhp @ 7500rpm. Quite an improvement over the factory 37! Although i expect it to be nowhere near 60bhp. It should atlest be a bit gruntier than standard. Will also look wicked and sound awesome. The program gave me a 2d plan for an expansion chamber. I then had to calculate the angles and lengths and radii for all the cones. Maths came in handy there! Here is some of the working out: I then had to make the templates. Some of the cones had to be drawn with a radius of 1.2meters through an arc of 6.13 degrees. = impossable to draw. Being the geek that i am. I have linux on my laptop. And downloaded a free (thanks open sourse) 3d cad program. It made it an absoloute breeze to draw up and print off the templates. even though some of them took up more than one page. Here are the templates once they were cut out and stuck together. The stinger (the tiny end pipe) is just 18mm pipe so i dont need to make that out of sheet metal. Same with the very first part of the pipe. Its just straight round section. All the others are cones. Some of them with the tiniest amount of taper! . All i need is sheet metal now. And time Lastly i made up 3 actual spannies using the templates. Out of paper ofcourse. They actually look like expansion chambers!!! Now i have to work out how to cut them up to fit into the fronte engine bay. Will need lots of curves and shit. Will look mean though. Will update when ive got some sheet metal and started making them. Will be fun. But im focussing time on the jag at the moment. Want to finish it after 4 years!! That is all..

Orange boe

Chevettes are cool. Good to see another one.

Nice Buy. Looks good!

Awesome. If you are going to lower it anyway. You may aswell try letting some fluid out and see how it sits/handles, like cubastreet said. If you dont like it, then do it properly or get it repressurised. If you like it, then its a cheap fix

Had to laugh when i saw rear leaves Awesome

It should, in theory, be just like running the carb with a higher atmospheric pressure. Cos all components will be at the same pressure inside and out. Except that if any spitcack happens, it happens in a small, sealed metal box Which would be rather scary! Exactly

Thats what i was thinking. But what about back splashes (dont know what to call them, when the carb puffs fuel/air back out the intake) or wont that happen cos its under boost?

In retrospect it does appear to be rather dangerous. But, the box shouldn't fill up with fuel/air mix much Is should be the same as a plenum shouldn't it? Appart from the carbs are inside the plenum. Maby... It has been suggested to me before by a race mechanic. (when he suggested turbocharging the fronte) I can see how it could be very dangerous though

I agree with Yowser and WDE_BDY. Putting the carbs in a sealed box and pressurising the box should work. As then the outside and inside pressures of the carb would be the same, so it will do its venturi thing properly. But yea, you would have to make sure your fuel pressure is higher than the boost. Otherwise..... It may be cheaper/easier to find another "boost ready" carb to fit on tho