Did you see Mighty Car Mods's Turbo Yoda's cameo on the last(?) Project Binky when they announced they were going naturally aspirated? Not happy.
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Did you see Mighty Car Mods's Turbo Yoda's cameo on the last(?) Project Binky when they announced they were going naturally aspirated? Not happy.
I haven't forgotten your engine Bustamif. I'm fascinated by it. You had to increase the bore spacings to get that cylinder bore in? How does that go aligning to the head? Are the rods offset in the pistons too?
Brettr8's whole build is epic. Does anyone know of any other forced induction 807s? Maybe @bazzamac can share details of his Fuego turbo.
I often look at the big empty space in the RHS of my engine bay and wonder what I could fit in there......
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Check out the link in post #46, they fitted bigger valves, and had to change the angle of them to get them in. Didn't see what the actual sizes were that they got in.The head lines up OK and the Mecaparts head gasket produced for the really big bore works fine. The biggest challenge was the hole created through each end of the block when the block is bored out to fit the liners. After the first block was welded and then line bored to fit the crank it cracked so we used another method on the next block to add material, strengthen the block and weld the holes. More machining is needed to get the block all straight and flat after the welding distortion.
Each rod is matched to a specific piston and liner from flywheel end in a sequence. The liners are a special material and a design similar to the old F1 engines. The liner is thicker at the combustion end with a taper which provides a wide seal area on he head gasket however that means the pistons have to be installed from the crankshaft side.
Now that we have good reliability, the next stage is to do more work on the valve sizes, a more aggressive camshaft and further exhaust tuning.
Although it runs a twin plate AP racing clutch, the amount of torque now requires a heavier pressure plate. Lucky they make a big range of pressure plates for those racing clutches.
Check out the link in post #46, they fitted bigger valves, and had to change the angle of them to get them in. Didn't see what the actual sizes were that they got in.
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I remember there was an 807 powered Formula 2 car run by Mike Stack in Australia back in the day with some success against VW Golf powered cars. [...]
Hi BustimifMy spelling of his name was incorrect, it should have been Ayhee. Somewhere in my files I have a couple of other photos of the car showing the rear view with the turbo 807 and rear suspension.
I had a few drives during the 80's. Apart from the Porsche in the Sports Car Championship I drove the ex Niki Lauda/Ronnie Petersen BMW in the GT Series, a TR7 in the Pro-Am series and a 351 Falcon in the Bathurst 1000. The Falcon blew an engine in qualifying.
16v for the Cleon-Fonte
https://www.mespiecesauto.com/en/culasse-cleon-fonte-16-soupapes-le-projet-fou/
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That would have to be him because there was only one car running an 807 in the Australian F2 Championship.