I do no a lot of the basics now as @Joker came over to mine and I did build daisy from nut bolt up !! I help out a few local lads with the basics !!
Thinking of a 1776 but choking it with a center mount carb Small valve mexican heads that i will gasflow but not open the inlet ports up much at all Maybe a set of ratio rockers on the inlets Then the old piper stainless steel exhaust im a fan of Its all ideas at the moment but i think it would make a great bus engine Especially off road and for going up hill and down dale It will be good for pulling a trailer of logs with Plus its going to be cost effective to build as it uses a lot of original parts and theres less need to balance everything as your never going to rev the tits of it
Oooh a square engine, I always wanted one of them when I had my mini. What stroke would you need for a square engine and what cc size would it be?
I'm Sure I found a thread on the samba where some dude built one with standard 1600 Barrels and pistons and from memory the crank throw was huge 82mm ?
My whole messing about with cars was because working on aircraft was by the book I liked coming up with ideas and solutions to problems and the creativity that was allowed when building cars If someone said somthing couldent be done it was like a challenge and i try to find a way to do it Im trying to avoid machining the case at all on my build and keeping the engine as simple and as stock as possible whilst improving it to suit my needs better
You can get cases with high roofs that don't need clearancing for 82mm with VW journals or up to 86mm with Chevvy journals.
So hes down over a stock engine? Am i the only one now wondering what compression ratio that engine has being built with
Id rather build with a stock case That way if in the future the case is knacked and im short of funds i can build from a stock case Cheaper than buying a new specialised crank case id imagine
If it keeps running at that and is reliable I'd be happy. Don't forget it's a 'special' which had let go once and has chocolate carbs on (no disrespect) but if it's set up nice and running ok no problem. Wonder what the result would have been with some amber nectar shoved down its carbs though. What's the torque result?
BHP is 6.5%, and Torque 3% down on book values... I'd be happy with that... could even be rolling road calibration error Either way, I'd not worry about it
I had a guy i built a few ford engines for that wouldent ever have an engine built if it had been oversized He said 5-10 bhp loss I asked the question about the compression because ive been hearing a lot about low compression cheap engines being built so they get through the warranty period
