Will's leaky Speedster/new engine!?

Pat, I had your 2110cc in my IM and drove it for 5 years and I found that in the fall, when temperatures are in the 50's where I live to be the times when the car was running the smoothest and the peppiest all around. Ray

I am unsubscribing from this post,it has been beaten to death and im tired of 20+ emails a day, give it a break...I need a drink after this topic.

Maybe we need to all get a life.

Somebody get the lights on the way out....

Barncobob et al;  If you really get tired of a particular poster, just click on his/her username (in blue, on the left side) and up pops a profile page.  On the right are things like "follow this poster" and so forth, and at the bottom of that is "Block this poster".  Click on that and, "Poof!"  You no longer see his/her posts.  Pretty neat feature, that........

He was talking about the "Follow This Topic" feature that sends a notification email for every single reply that gets added to a thread. Handy in rare cases, but I don't know why Theron has that option checked by default for every reply.

 

 

The Magnesium case is readily available today. In fact, Volkswagen rebuilt all of the tooling. The cases are made for VW by a company called Rima, you will see this name on all of the new cases. <insert cheesy grin here>

I'm personally near the bottom of a steep 'learning curve' and am grateful for extended, and even superfluous, posts on any technical/instructional/ thread...

 

Like Jim Ignacio I gain insight into something every time I open this forum 

I was going to post another dyno graph on a 74x90.5 "1904cc" engine that was built with low RPM torque in mind for the customer. I don't want to pollute someone's email with more reply's to this thread. Is anyone interested in seeing it? I can post more dyno graphs in the future so all of you guys can see how the different combinations run. What's the best place to post them?

 

Post away Pat...I would love to see them!! 

Pat,

 

Many of us will want to read your posts on the topic of engine builds.  Just start a new thread, and give it a name that will alert readers to the content.  You know--VW engine dyno results, VW engine hp & torque, Air-cooled engine specs, something along those lines. 

This topic is called "Will's leaky speedster/new engine", I wonder if whoever started it was referring to a leaky prostrate .... getting longer all the time post away Pat. 

Caretech, no leaky prostate here, yours?

what is a leaky prostrate?

I'm not sure what I did or didn't do, but I never get email notification for post replies.....thankfully.

I come to this site a couple of times each day and pick and choose what posts I want to read.

Can't all of us do that?

Start a new post under Speedster/ Technical . I have several things on those engine sizes to discuss in a separate posting.
---George K. ---

Gene Berg once wrote that if an engine runs really nice cold and is not quite so crisp once it warms up it's jetting is a little rich, and if it coughs and sputters when cold and doesn't run nice until it's really warmed up it could be a little lean. Taking that one step further- if it runs "smoothest and peppiest" when the weather's cooler, maybe (to regain that "crispness") you need to change to slightly leaner jets when the weather warms up every year?

 

I'd say you really know your car well, Ray. 

Al, Thanks for that comment, I think all of us get experience and listening, smelling, feeling for out of ordinary or different sounds is something we need to do to diagnose the issues that our cars have.  We did have to replace the manifold gaskets at one point as we thought the car was having carb issues which turned out to be the maniford gaskets.  Now that I have my new IM which has a subie 2.5L I am now looking at learning other sounds, just to keep life interesting. Here's one for you tech guys I am running Evans waterless coolant in mine, lifetime coolant. Ray 

A fallen down full of beer drunk...

Evans waterless coolant- sound pretty high tech! Gonna have to look that one up...

Well, my new IM will have waterless coolant, too!

 

Evans coolant is some really good stuff!  I've been using it for a couple of years on my domestic land yachts.

I considered replacing my coolant in my monster Miata with Evans when I experienced some overheating while tracking the car.  I ended up not going that route because for it to work properly all of the coolant in the cooling system has to be drained and I mean ALL.  I ended up adding another radiator fan and improving the ducting to the rad instead.

 

 

Good job Rusty!!!

 

Seriously, Pat, every time I read something you post here or on the Samba (or anywhere else) I feel like I've learned something. Now how much was that discount for members? 

 

Those that do, Ray really bond with their cars, and can tell by feel when driving higher speeds in hot weather when something is wrong, see the oil (and maybe head) temps are getting too high and back off the throttle just a little bit. They don't begrudge it the maintenance time it needs. If you can feel when the weather affects the way the car runs (as it's changed the tune just a bit) as you do, you truly are a car guy! Here's to getting to know the new beast just as well.

I too notice the peppiness on cooler mornings 70*vs the normal mid 80*s but she runs like a bat out of Hell all the time...

Every sports car I have ever had, always ran better in the cooler evening or early morning.

 

Remember the old Chuck Berry song:

 

The Cadillac pulled up ahead of the Ford
The Ford got hot and wouldn't do no more
It then got cloudy and it started to rain
I tooted my horn for a passin' lead
The rain water blowin' all under my hood
I knew that was doin' my motor good

 

I was waiting for those who fly planes to chime in but I guess I will ..., Small planes run better in colder weather

So do my Jack Russell Terriers.......

"runs like a bat out of Hell" ? Bats run ? ???

I love Chuck's songs. Reminds me of rock-a-billy, they play at the rat rod meets. ---George K. ---

 

someone had one too many coconut shell filled drinks. Do you guys only sit around all day long, in Hawaii and watch the sun rise and set ? I like to look at the pollution over Houston and count the dead birds falling out of the sky, for entertainment.

Seriously , the question asked me, is how much does it cost to ship a complete VW engine from the States to Hawaii . Does anyone have an answer on that one ?

Caretech,

 

Yes, airplanes and helicopters equipped with reciprocating engines do perform better in cooler temps but also derive better lift when the air is denser. Turbine engine aircraft also benefit from lower temps.

Nope. I am going to guess 300.00 to ship a motor.

Work my ass off 50 hr week, living paycheck to paycheck...But I am happy!

$300, shipping cost on engine, only within the 48 continental States. And, that is only because I have a contract with UPS big freight line. Without the contract, if a person wants to ship an engine, UPS quoted me $500 to $600. I am located in Texas, not in CA. Distance adds to freight cost.

It cost me some money to build a smaller wooden pallet and I use ratchet type tie-downs to secure the engine to the pallet. Also, have to remove the muffler or some of the exhaust to allow it to fit on the smaller pallet. Bigger wooden pallet and they charge more money for shipping. You see engine retailers showing "no exhaust or clutch" included and that saves them freight cost and allows use of the smaller wooden pallet. --George K. ---

Why do you ask?

Sorry, thought someone asked about cost to ship a complete VW engine to Hawaii and thought you live there.  ----George K. ----

And further to what Chuck mentioned above, (flying) we would routinely lean our engines while cruising at altitude too and gain a significant increase in fuel economy as well as better performance.

 

With the older carbureted engines, the procedure was to get yourself stabilized in flight at a certain altitude then pull out slowly on the mixture knob on the panel. Watch the tach and the rpm would slowly rise to a "peak" rpm. That is your best performance under the current circumstances. Pull out a bit more and the engine will stumble and the rpm would drop as the mixture was too lean. We would then richen the mixture back to "peak" then just a bit more. This was called running ROP or rich of peak.

 

Our car engines could benefit from this too, but most of us drive around the same altitude most of the time. However, there was a "mile dial" kit out there years ago for the Holley carb. It was useful in races like Pike's Peak where you are gaining plenty of altitude during the race. I put a mile dial kit on my Holley 5200 carb while running a Corvair engine with it during the early years of the last airplane I built.