The fuel system is ancient mechanical fuel injection that just basically pisses fuel into the runners with spring-loaded diesel style injectors. The fuel tank (cell) and hoses etcetera are modern though.
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Five years and $14,000 later and I finally just drove it home.
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# ? Oct 12, 2014 11:52 |
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What are the things on the right with the four wires going into the top? They look like tiny audio amps but somehow I doubt that Something for the ignition?
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# ? Oct 12, 2014 14:09 |
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Panty Saluter posted:What are the things on the right with the four wires going into the top? They look like tiny audio amps but somehow I doubt that Something for the ignition? Voltage regulators. Gray boxes are relays.
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OFFICER 13 INCH posted:Final run: Easy to see the 918's inspiration here.
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It amazes me that that little fan on top could air cool an engine like that sufficiently. It looks like it would generate more heat than the sun.
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OFFICER 13 INCH posted:And just in case anybody could keep up with *that* motherfucker... That's such a strange looking plastic to me, I'm wondering if it's some sort of GFRP or bakelite...
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Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:It amazes me that that little fan on top could air cool an engine like that sufficiently. It looks like it would generate more heat than the sun. It's driven at fairly high speeds for a fan, and I'm sure they utilized massive oil coolers / a poo poo-ton of engine oil as well (seeing as they did the latter even on plain-jane 911s).
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# ? Oct 12, 2014 19:48 |
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Raluek posted:Lowers the coil voltage to around 9V (and surely limits the current too, but IDR what the actual values are) for less energy while running. Typically bypassed while starting. Modern coils don't need one, I don't think; anyway my MSD blaster coil doesn't use one whereas my stock one did. I want to say that it was for preservation of the coil windings so they wouldn't melt under sustained operation? Someone older than me who was actually around then could probably clarify. Old cars with contacts/points in the dizzy had ballast resistors to make them last longer before pitting/burn out. Lower volts meant less servicing, needing to file or replace them or adjust dwell angle and timing. So ballast resistors were used to give a lower voltage to contact points to make them last longer. My old cars were 7V, and as you said, bypassed with a relay on starting. Any ignition system that doesn't use contact points/breakers, just uses straight 12V/14V. That being said, I don't know if this engine had points in the dizzy, so not sure if that's what the ballast resistors are for. Fo3 fucked around with this message at 20:45 on Oct 12, 2014 |
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Makes sense that it would be for the sake of the points and not the coil. Things need loving with on a performance car way too much as it is.
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# ? Oct 12, 2014 21:22 |
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So, are those ballast resistors actually just big inductors? They just look like coils of wire around a cardboard box or something. What am I missing about the construction?
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# ? Oct 12, 2014 21:47 |
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I think it's just a really long thin wire to give it some resistance, but I agree that it will definitely have some inductance. The ones I'm used to seeing look like this: But that's probably just got a coil of thin wire in there, cast into the block. I guess the other way is just the Superior German way of accomplishing the same thing.
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# ? Oct 12, 2014 21:54 |
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What's the backstory on that 917? It looks like some guys in a shed just put it together as a fun project. I'd expect stuff like this to happen in the Porsche factory or a very professional racing shop or something.
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That probably -is- a very professional racing shop.
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beedeebee posted:What's the backstory on that 917? It looks like some guys in a shed just put it together as a fun project. I'd expect stuff like this to happen in the Porsche factory or a very professional racing shop or something. Vasek Polak (if you don't know, basically the reason you can buy Porsches in the US) bought all the parts decades ago. Carl Thompson, the old dude, worked for him for years (I think, ended up running his porsche dealer) and bought them at some point from Polak or his estate and opened a very high end shop with his name. nm fucked around with this message at 22:34 on Oct 12, 2014 |
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MullardEL34 posted:Five years and $14,000 later and I finally just drove it home. Beeeautiful. More pics please!
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# ? Oct 13, 2014 01:54 |
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I will always have a soft spot for Corvairs. Is it the turbo version, and do you have pictures of the sorcery that is blow through carbs?
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# ? Oct 13, 2014 05:45 |
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I saw this... thing at a gas station a few days ago. Is this one of those gray market Land Rovers that people were importing to the US? (click to embiggen)
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freelop posted:
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MetaJew posted:I saw this... thing at a gas station a few days ago. Is this one of those gray market Land Rovers that people were importing to the US? You could get the short wheelbase Defenders (D-90) in the US into the 90's. Although anything left in any sort of decent shape is $$$$$$$$$$$$$$.
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Paulie posted:You could get the short wheelbase Defenders (D-90) in the US into the 90's. Although anything left in any sort of decent shape is $$$$$$$$$$$$$$. You can also import any one that's 25 years old but the government will just assume it's a new one you vin swapped and confiscate it even if it's a busted pile of poo poo.
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# ? Oct 13, 2014 09:56 |
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MetaJew posted:I saw this... thing at a gas station a few days ago. Is this one of those gray market Land Rovers that people were importing to the US? That's an NAS (North American Specification) Defender, they're easily identified by that partial exo-cage. They had to have those in order to meet tightening DOT regs, as well as lighting modifications and some other changes for the NA market. They only sold them for a few years, '93 to '97, and they are worth beau-coup money because they didn't sell very many during that time, maybe a couple thousand at most. Terrible Robot fucked around with this message at 11:48 on Oct 13, 2014 |
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Well it looked pristine, and didn't have a license plate. And, it was in a pretty wealthy part of town.
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Terrible Robot posted:That's an NAS (North American Specification) Defender, they're easily identified by that partial exo-cage. They had to have those in order to meet tightening DOT regs, as well as lighting modifications and some other changes for the NA market. They only sold them for a few years, '93 to '97, and they are worth beau-coup money because they didn't sell very many during that time, maybe a couple thousand at most. to add on that, it has later doors and axles as well.
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# ? Oct 13, 2014 15:35 |
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Everything behind that black hole in the front is loving sexy though.
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# ? Oct 13, 2014 15:45 |
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MetaJew posted:Well it looked pristine, and didn't have a license plate. And, it was in a pretty wealthy part of town. It is probably the most expensive car you saw this week.
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# ? Oct 13, 2014 20:50 |
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Saw this thing on the road today, was pretty cool, and RHD to boot!
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cursedshitbox posted:to add on that, it has later doors and axles as well. Not sure what's goign on with the side panels, it looks like it's been boxed out more. US model or not, it's definitely been modified a bit.
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It's a turtrucken!
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beedeebee posted:What's the backstory on that 917? It looks like some guys in a shed just put it together as a fun project. I'd expect stuff like this to happen in the Porsche factory or a very professional racing shop or something. quote:Kevin Jeannette, owner of Gunnar Porsche Racing, has a long history of involvement with Porsches. His start came over 35 years ago with a Porsche repair shop in Southern California. By 1977, Kevin was a Porsche racing mechanic, and devoted his full time to the sport, in 1978, forming Gunnar Porsche Racing.
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It makes me laugh how expensive defenders are in the USA. I grew up in them and consider them a small step above a tractor. If anyone wants to pay me daft money there's loads of 25 year old land rovers around here I can send you.
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# ? Oct 14, 2014 18:58 |
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Forbidden fruit always tastes sweeter, there's guys like Gas Monkey here in the States who make bank exporting 70's land barges to places like Sweden and Japan.
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Das Volk posted:That's such a strange looking plastic to me, I'm wondering if it's some sort of GFRP or bakelite... Thats because it's fiberglass.
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D C posted:Thats because it's fiberglass. What do you think gfrp is?
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Bape Culture posted:What do you think gfrp is? Didn't pay attention to that.
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Did you guys know that Chrysler in the 1970's offered a "kit car" intended for short track oval racing? It came in either Dodge Dart or Plymouth Duster flavors. Here's an early Dodge Dart version, probably skinned as a 1974 or 1975, with a custom Charger Daytona style nose piece added. In the mid 1970's NASCAR modifieds ran at Daytona, typically the cars were open wheel like modifieds generally are, but to combat aero lift and instability, NASCAR allowed streamlining of the cars. This is the logical conclusion of that, and by this point the modifieds were turning 200mph average laps just like Cup cars. This one is skinned as a 1978 Plymouth Duster. Here's a brief writeup on the development of the so-called "Saturday Night Special" Also, the main website itself is pretty boss. http://mopardealer.com e- yeah, it doesn't get much more AI than this Seizure Meat fucked around with this message at 21:44 on Oct 14, 2014 |
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