59 11 window Splitty Custom Resto

aircooled_nut · Post by **aircooled_nut** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 10:44 pm

Hey Al thats very nice...like all your work - Awsome!

Have I missed something, I haven't been able to access you webpage (DasRestoHaus)with all the current resto pics lately?

kombi1976 · Post by **kombi1976** » Fri Jul 22, 2011 12:37 am

Wow, excellent stuff, Al.

So how much HP do you think that motor will develop?
Surely properly mapping the EFI should really squeeze the most out of the motor.

Dasdubber · Post by **Dasdubber** » Fri Jul 22, 2011 6:51 am

aircooled_nut wrote:Hey Al thats very nice...like all your work - Awsome!
Have I missed something, I haven't been able to access you webpage (DasRestoHaus)with all the current resto pics lately?

G'day Brent, yeah the host has been moving all their websites across to new servers. It has been a bit frustrating as I now have a massive backlog of photos to upload whenever it does come back online! Hopefully soon....if not, will have to change hosts.
Al

Dasdubber · Post by **Dasdubber** » Wed Jul 27, 2011 7:10 pm

kombi1976 wrote:Wow, excellent stuff, Al.
So how much HP do you think that motor will develop?
Surely properly mapping the EFI should really squeeze the most out of the motor.

Hey Andy, engine made 110hp at the rear wheels on only 4psi of boost at 4500rpm so it is a real stump puller which is what it was designed to be. We have to add another idler pulley to get some more belt wrap around the crank pulley to stop a bit of belt slip and make a few more tweaks....it will then be retuned with more boost (smaller supercharger pulley) and should make 120-130hp. Absolute value of HP is not a primary concern as each dyno is different - for example some of our previous customer's engines have made 80-85hp and all have been 2054 to 2160cc on that dyno. My stock 1600 twin port in the ghia made 39hp

Now time to start sorting out the teething problems that come with such a custom build...but here is proof that it actually runs finally!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qlDDDBziD8

Leroy · Post by **Leroy** » Wed Jul 27, 2011 9:26 pm

How good does that sound!!

kombi1976 · Post by **kombi1976** » Thu Jul 28, 2011 11:46 am

Nice!
Should be a great mover.

Dasdubber · Post by **Dasdubber** » Wed Aug 03, 2011 7:51 pm

We had to play around with belt orientation and pulley positions to eliminate the belt slip and this was achieved today by having the dynamic tensioner on the "slack side" close to the crank pulley and also changing the idler pulley postions.

Still on a 'safe tune' the engine is sounding good and has more torque and responsiveness than I expected. Looking forward to having it retuned/mapped with some more boost once we get the rest of the bus/engine ancillaries sorted.

Cheers
Al

Tonz Magonz · Post by **Tonz Magonz** » Wed Aug 03, 2011 10:19 pm

Hi Al,
Any feedback on the front end yet, after your limited road test...?

Cheers Tony

Dasdubber · Post by **Dasdubber** » Wed Aug 03, 2011 10:44 pm

So far so good Tony but we need to finalise some of the underpinnings (brakes, wheel alignment etc) before pushing it. Since there has been so many custom mods to the bus, we have to go through everything with a fine tooth comb before giving it a thorough hiding.

We have 5 front ends on order hopefully be complete in around a month just as a side note.
Al

kombi1976 · Post by **kombi1976** » Thu Aug 04, 2011 12:59 am

It really does sound good.
How much boost do you plan on pushing it to? 6psi or the like?

Dasdubber · Post by **Dasdubber** » Thu Aug 04, 2011 7:48 am

The motor will handle up to 10psi quite easily - we will aim probably for around 8psi.

Tonz Magonz · Post by **Tonz Magonz** » Thu Aug 04, 2011 8:42 am

Dasdubber wrote:So far so good Tony but we need to finalise some of the underpinnings (brakes, wheel alignment etc) before pushing it. Since there has been so many custom mods to the bus, we have to go through everything with a fine tooth comb before giving it a thorough hiding.

We have 5 front ends on order hopefully be complete in around a month just as a side note.
Al

Thanks Al,
Sounds good.
Hope to call in over the Vic. Sept. school holidays during my family holiday in Byron..
Cheers

kombi1976 · Post by **kombi1976** » Thu Aug 04, 2011 11:57 am

It's interesting how much even a relatively moderate amount of boost can do for a motor.
Of course, should you get bored you can try the Peter Keegan approach......26psi into an old speed stroker with a magnesium case.

Dasdubber · Post by **Dasdubber** » Thu Aug 04, 2011 1:21 pm

Andy, we are currently restoring the body of Peter Keegan's Camel sponsored chop top....so I a guess I am feeling a bit of supercharger love at the moment. We won't quite emulate his feats with Armando's bus, however still like to think we are breaking a bit of new ground with the "new school" superchargers on an air cooled engine.
Al

kombi1976 · Post by **kombi1976** » Thu Aug 04, 2011 1:54 pm

Wow, great to see that car being resurrected.
Will it be returned to it's former glory?
Have you met Peter or Bryan, his brother, who did the sloper job on th car?
Bryan did a lot of rust work on my '67 and is a top bloke.
Peter is still cagey about that motor.
He didn't give up much info when I met him and it was a feral car.
Had to be to kill all those Falcon and Mustang drag cars.