The motor is down the home stretch, however there is plenty of work left regarding parts outside the motor, suspension, PTM, PSM, ABS and body.

 

CVD? Chemical Vapor Deposition of Amorphous Polycrystalline 'diamond' ?

 

I just remembered ...... it is called DLC which stands for Diamond Like Carbon.

 

http://www.animegame.com/cars/Oil%20Tests.pdf

 

my father always told me valvoline was good stuff, for the $ way back before synthetic was available, and no surprise Royal Purple scored high i would like to see the results of amsoil versus royal purple in that test though.

cjv what are you planning to run?

 

In the past I ran Swepco 306 Syn. I am seriously looking at the best Purple I can find now.

 

my atv engine builder likes this oil named Brad Penn it works wonders in the atv motors and he got another 3mpg out of his turbo subi just replacing the oil with this synthetic its not widely known yet but its in my atv's not to hard on the wallet at 6$ a quart

http://www.bradpennracing.com/ heres a link if you want to look

 

Recent Update.

Rods are close. Both Coated Pistons and Rods should arrive back here at the same time. It’s all moving forward. I’m away next week at PRI. Hoping they bring them to give to me.

Manifold arrived this morning. No Throttle body so I asked Rob to ship the one he has. I think I can rob one off an engine here to test in the meantime.
Looking at this, adding butterfly’s to the runner does not seem too difficult. BTM manifolds are no big deal and to add the 2nd Injector is also not a big deal. Will require new rails.

Running staged Injection would make this engine respond better I feel. Not only can we map out to the 6th dimension, we can overlay the 2nd set of Injectors so they only come into effect when required.

Not sure about what the stock system can do. I think it’s a saturated driver and if 1 larger Injector is used in this way, the opening time and control is not as fast and efficient as P&H drivers control the Injectors. Add to this the size you will need, the whole Injection system becomes slower and not quite as crisp. As for overall power, I cannot compare as ZI have never tested back to back. However, I would expect the throttle response to be far superior.

You are now entering into the area of higher performance gained from far better engine components. Better injection control coupled with far greater Ignition energy will gain you huge gains in torque and throttle response.

From a personal view point, I’d much rather have the response and the torque than a big HP number. In my F1 days, we made well over 1200 HP from a 1.5L, 4 Cylinder engine. Making the HP was the easy part. Making it last and having useable power and throttle response was another. I always remember the internal conflict we had. The drivers wanted response, but we had to make the power to remain competitive.

Nothing has changed.

Nh

 

Another update.


Fed Ex just delivered Rods. As soon as we unpack I’ll shoot you some pics. Will call about Pistons today to keep ball moving.

The manifold is been fitted to the Flow bench now. Have to make a new adapter to hold manifold to bench. Should have some numbers before lunch.

Nh

 

Our above plenum flow tested 13.4% better than the 997 GT2 plenum. The bad news was each runner leg was not delivering equal flow. How critical this will be as the test does not take into account the pulsed charges for each cylinder ..... we don't know at this time. The 997 GT2 plenum provided equal flow for each leg under the same test.

We are going to now test a GT3 plenum like was used on joetwint's motor. From there we will have to decide weather to build design and build our own plenum.

When will it ever end!

 

Now for some good news ...... introducing our rods.

 

Wow arrow i havent seen those rods for a while what material is it using 4340? doesn't look like ti

 

No, not exactly. The rod mass is 414 grams per rod. They are made of the strongest steel known in the world. One process involves double air re melting of the steel to insure the total removal of any impurity along with liquid nitrating.

These rods deliver more strength with less weight than 4340. When you consider these rods are several mm's longer than the stock 996tt rod length and yet 40% less weight, this is really an achievement. They are actually lighter than the Ruf titanium steel rods that we have also used.

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thats awesome dare i ask what a set of those is? hows the elasticity on them just like other performance h beams? or are these a short lived life rod?

 

The motor is designed for longevity ....... that is for it's power range. The cost is just over $700.00 per rod. These are derived from F1 technology. They have a slightly smaller journal diameter and they are laser rifle drilled to provide lubrication to wrist pins as well as the cavity under the piston dome.