Exhaust

OK, time to start building the new header. That will be the only new part for the engine, rest will remain the same. This time we'll use all kinds of cool stuff found from Aalto University's art department's laboratory, like 3d scanner, cad programs and all the cutting and welding tools. Header may not be any better than the previous one but at least it's interesting enough to see what all those gizmos can do.

First we made a simple cutting template for the collector. It's 16 degree collector for saving space and it's also easier to weld than 12 deg.

Family portrait

We finally got to move into our new house and now I have more time to consentrate on other projects. Here's a line up on our garage's winter project engines, about 2500 hp on the counter. Three turbo engines and two roller cam N/A engines, all destined for street cars.

From left: Pauter 3.5l turbo, ARPM 2.3l turbo, Scat 2.9l N/A, Scat 2.9l N/A, Autorcaft 2.3l turbo

Oh well...

I managed to drive the car for more than a month without major problems. I also got it tuned to a bit dissapointing numbers 250 hp and 285 nm with belt and muffler. So, I'm missing some 30 hp and most of that must be from the header which is way too long. But this will do for the summer as I have quite a lot of other things on my mind for now. However, I got new specs for the header from JPM and will start building new one as soon as I put the car on stands again.

I also got to test the car on 1/4 mile in Pori and for a test it was good, otherwise nothing special. I did 12.6 @ 171 km/h with clutch slipping from 2nd to 4th gear. It did not hold even the burnout so I'm still confident I will run mid 11's when everything is OK. At the end of the track I also blew breather hose and oiled the engine bay pretty good. The breather is absolutely not up to date with such a big engine and I also popped crank seal and had to pull the engine to fix that. Everything is going back together and I hope to get back on track soon.

It's alive again

Engine fired right up and the sound is very aggressive. I like it a lot. Didn't want to let it run for a long time as it was quite late sunday evening and I'm sure every neighbour did hear it.

Gearbox is in.

Transmission

I picked up the transmission from Alhomatic's garage. He was leaving for the holiday and did not have time to finish it. Basically the only thing that was left for me was the dialing in the final drive and nose cone/ hockey stick modifications.

the diff

Engine ready

Engine is ready. Alhomatic called and he's having some problems with transmission. Looks like 091, berg mount and finnish gear set is not a bolt on job. It takes quite lot of grinding and fitting to get it right but I'm sure it will be just perfect when it's all done.