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LOL here's a glue then. The guy that designed my cams and did the CNC port flow maching, also did the heads on the 2 x F1 world championship winning Mercedes engines while he was in charge at Ilmor 1991- 1996, I am sure that you can work out who it is from there.
He disagrees with your statment...
Next up the cylinder head with those 1 mm larger Inconel valves :D
Valves in head by nodded, on Flickr
Head face by nodded, on Flickr
Complete head by nodded, on Flickr
Getting closer, I can't wait
Well Its been a while now but things have moved on more bits have been delivered
Firstly at last the flappy paddle converted steering wheel
Steering wheel by nodded, on Flickr
Next up My custom made Carbon Air box rear section being machined for throttle bodies
Carbon air box by nodded, on...
Well much of the transmission stuff has arived I hope the pics come out LOL
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3359/5830360150_5554c49830.jpg
One six speed gear box
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5109/5830359574_81f70fedbf.jpg
Here's the bulk of the flappy paddle gear change kit...
As always thanks Matt for your advise, but these guys have this all under control they laid this all out on the line right up front and yes we do have the cylinder head from hell, and yes it was silly expensive but it gives the results. The motor gives its power @ 8500 piston speed at max RPM...
Right now I am competing as my car in full rebuild state, but I hope to do BARC and move on to britcar all gong well that is. I have been testing a loan vehicle and that's proved to be quite a tool, so here's hoping.
Hi all I have at last started my project racer. my spec list is below I will post pictures as soon as I can as parts have finally started to arrive.
ENGINE.
300M steel crank
300M steel rods
300M steel mains caps
Tri metal engine bearing set
TK mains studs
TK head studs
I S Clairingdon...
Thanks guys for all your help and comments that got me this far, I will start a project thread as soon as some of the the custom parts start to come in. That is if I can up load the pics, I will give it my best shot anyways.
Well guys my project gets wheels today, I have just come back from watching an F4R being dyno,ed today @322.7bhp @8500RPM, so I have seen it's possible on a sensible budget. or more to the point my budget.
I have taken the plunge and gone ahead with it although I have chosen to go with a...