Recent content by StevieB

Doesnt the offset go towards the max thrust side i.e. the bulkhead direction if the engine rotates clockwise when viewed from the offside of the car?! .

I agree that large low speed diesel engines will run off virtually anything that is combustable (after all they use to run on coal before they went over to the dual-combustion cycle), but I find it hard to believe that a 1.0l turbo diesel would run on engine oil. It certainly wouldnt rev to max...

Diesels might be called "oil burners" but they havent burnt oil as we know it for about 80 years! The engine speed is controlled by the amount of fuel going in. The more fuel you inject, the more air it sucks in, and away it goes. They run about 120:1 AFR at idle up to about 20:1 at full...

"Standard" throttle bodies are horizontally mounted, whilst "downdraft" are for cars where there is limited clearance between the bulkhead, so they are mounted vertically on a manifold with a 90 degree bend in it. The trade-off is normally lower performance.

Yup - bloody Ford suspension! :D

Ah - ok. It was just that I was getting confused by the fact that you mentioned XR3i arms, which as far as I know are track control arms with the roll bar used for for-aft location, instead of the two mounting points on Festa wishbones. Ive seen some adjustable wishbones from TAS Motorsport...

oh dear - you could do sommersaults with those ship anchors!

I thought mk3 Festas had wishbones - the ones with the crappy donut bush that always falls apart?!

Yes - I did actually. Nice work on such a tight budget! We were due to have our Formula Student car in there but it went to Racecar magazine instead. Reading about competition cars was my fav bit in the mag - it gave me loads of ideas for ours!

Does any one know of any good technical but practical car tuning magazines out there to replace good ol CCC - Im absolutely lost without it. It was the only thing that kept me on the straight and narrow when I was a teenager, rather than falling in to the absyss of Peco Big Bore 4s, Novas, and...

Doh! - I should have realised...

From your graph, your peak torque is about 123lbft if you calculate it at 4500rpm and 105bhp. Thats pretty pants, especially for a 2.0 16valver. The way the torque curve drops off suggests its a breathing problem. Im pretty sure Simon172 is right. Weve fiddled around with his pipes (oh er)...

VVT seems to be just there to get modern cars through tough EURO emissions tests without sacrificing "on paper" power (peak power figures sell cars afterall!). The K-series is going to be killed off soon because the continously VVT system means its emissions are worse than stuff like VTECs...

Unless youre really determined I wouldnt bother. I made some race car bodywork a while ago and I found out how difficult it is. You have to get the mould ridiculously smooth to get a good finish, and then sometimes you end up with light patches where you can almost see through it. Doh!

I think you should get one of those Mongoose stainless specials to wake up the groaders on the copse corner.