Nostalgia Dragster Rebuild

[Blitzen]

Thats epic man!!! All cos of the wrong diff ratio???

[GoLfMan]

Should be ready for the Sydney trip this friday..

wooh cant wait

[Preen59]

Thats epic man!!! All cos of the wrong diff ratio???

Yeah too tall. Bogged the engine down, it started to pull hard, ran lean because of the low RPM and bang! I was in the stands when it happened. Went off pretty hard. Grenaded the blower case, blew the injector off.. All contained by the ballistic shields but not cheap!

[Jarred]

sexc's looking pretty good.

hows the engine and trans and all that stuff running? Gone through a tank of fuel yet?? hahah

[Preen59]

sexc's looking pretty good.

hows the engine and trans and all that stuff running? Gone through a tank of fuel yet?? hahah

The mechanicals are spot on. It's got 86,000 kms on it!

It's not registered yet. Driving it would be very irresponsible.. (No, not yet.)

Dad filled up the Jerry Can this arvo to throw in it tomorrow. Blue Slip tomorrow.. Woo!

[GoLfMan]

that jerry can will run it for about 5 mins

[Preen59]

I strolled back into the workshop yesterday... To this.





(Sorry for the blurry pics)

We got the Brad Penn straight 50 (can't get 60 in australia) oil earlier in the week, so dad was attempting to get oil pressure this weekend. I made an oil pump drive to be driven by a pistol drill earlier in the week.

Turns out we put the oil pressure relief block off in around the wrong way.. So no oil pressure . We had a 50% chance of getting it right! haha.

So dad dropped the sump off and pulled the pump off, turned the block off around, and then we reassembled everything.


After that, we got oil pressure! 120 PSI worth, which means we may need to take some tension off the relief in the pump.. But we have to talk to Rick about that one.



Plenty of oil spewing out everywhere, plenty coming out of the rocker gear. So we were very happy!

After that we set the valve clearances. I got the great job of winding the engine over, while dad got cranky trying to adjust the pushrods.. Hahaha.


Today we started doing the throttle linkage. The decision has been made that we're using a linkage throttle rather than a hydraulic, so we have to make all the brackets and pitman arms now.



Guess what the first linkage rod is made out of?? Anyone who is into air cooleds should be able to guess it..

[Mischa]

Guess what the first linkage rod is made out of?? Anyone who is into air cooleds should be able to guess it..

metal

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[Jarred]

wikid preeny.

I'm pretty sure i will be driving back up to see this again when it's running! what an experience!

Thanks for showing us round the other day too.

[Peter Jones]

Guess what the first linkage rod is made out of?? Anyone who is into air cooleds should be able to guess it..

Push rod.

Pete

[Preen59]

Push rod.

Pete

Hahaha I was nearly going to say "Pete will get this one for sure".. And look at that, you did.

[Preen59]

metal

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Haha bloody engineering students.

wikid preeny.

I'm pretty sure i will be driving back up to see this again when it's running! what an experience!

Thanks for showing us round the other day too.

All good dude. Glad you guys had a good time. (Post the pics of you in the car here!)

[Peter Jones]

Hahaha I was nearly going to say "Pete will get this one for sure".. And look at that, you did.

Push rods are very versatile

I made a door handle from a cut down 1200 head stud once.

It's still opening my parent's security door 20 years later.

Pete

[Preen59]

Push rods are very versatile

I made a door handle from a cut down 1200 head stud once.

It's still opening my parent's security door 20 years later.

Pete

Yeah i've used old VW pushrods for heaps of stuff.

"Necessity is the mother of invention."

[Jarred]

these ones preeny??

It's pretty comfy in there. for me at least. josh - not so much! hahah