Lotus Europa Forums > Members Cars
54 and 65 in Australia
Willa:
Sorry for the bad picture,
The oil goes in at no 1 and no 4 through the gallery and returns through the middle ( where the oil usually goes into the engine) The engine has great oil pressure and flow. Also I have additional modifications to assist with flow and pressure.
Cheers
Willa.
dakazman:
Willa , Thanks for this thread. I have been following it for some time but staying focused on getting my original motor running. I’m getting plenty of ideas here for my other 821. You have a very clean layout that I love studying in your pics. Keep posting.
Dakazman
StephenH:
--- Quote from: Willa on Thursday,December 19, 2019, 02:40:38 AM ---So what I thought was going to take a month has taken 6.....
--- End quote ---
They look worth the wait Willa.
MRN I J:
Did you ever dyno test the last engine Willa ?
Willa:
Hi MRN,
We went to dyno, had issues so pulled the yeah off to check everything and discovered one of the exhaust valve seats had collapsed into the head. It did this because of the porting and softish material that the head is made of, unfortunately because of this the head is unusable..... so we are back to creating a new head then back to the dyno. The new head will have the chamber welded up to increase the compression to 11.5:1 or possibly 12:1 rather than shaving the head which is what we did on the old one. The pistons I have chosen are slightly dished which is counterintuitive for achieving compression and the reason the chambers need welding to get the desired result. We are about 4 weeks away from finishing and being able to dyno. I will share the results when available, hoping for a bit more than the previous set up with reliability.
Cheers
Willa
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version