Last weekend a number of local 914 owners attended and participated in the http://www.stjohnsaz.com/grandprix_stjohns.htm
St. Johns is a small town in the NE corner of Arizona. Every Labor Day weekend, they close down the airport and open it up to DE and race events.
In the formula class there was a Super V running a Type IV that had been de-stroked to 1.6L. It had a low throaty grunt that sounded pretty good.
Anyone her run Super V? If so, did you use a Type IV?
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Here is Andy in Wild6 (white 3.6L monster), Tim in his quick orange car, and Bryan in his 2.2L six track car.
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a bunch of FSV's run in my vintage group...
they are smoking fast.
blow away most all of the other Formula cars. (blow away the fords)
in their hey day these were 200hp formula cars that weighed NOTHING!!!
very very fast
what is brian running now for a tranny by the way?
how did he do?
here are some FSV's from my vintage race 2 weeks ago:
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Bryan was running his 901 with limited slip I believe. He was having some jetting issues but got it cleared up by the end. Car looked to be handling well. He didn't race this weekend, just running in the fast DE group.
We got about 90 minutes or more track time each day for four days. Track was very good with fresh pavement. Good grip and not too hard on the tires.
if they were legal SVs they did not have 200 hp. They would make 150 to 170 hp at best. I wrenched EFR's championship car in 1975 and Howdy Holmes in 1976.
Bernie Thomas
Yes, the car is carbed. I know he is considering going to FI.
I understand the later SVs were running water cooled VW motors punching out close to 180 or more HP. I understand the progression was 1600cc, 1700cc, then to the water cooled motors.
I think the water cooled cars were not called "super vee"
I can't remember exactly, but I thought they were called something else in their day..
Brian,
cool on the tranny success.
yeah the LSD is a big difference.
I really am blown away with how nice the wide band is.
you should really consider it if you want to do lots of travel or jetting.
I had only used one, 1 time previously on a dyno and didn't take the time to pull plugs and really question things...
you wouldn't believe it.
when I took the time 2 weeks ago, to pull plugs I was actually running the car lean at that track but could not tell from plugs or exhaust tips.
the level of accuracy is unreal with the Wide Band
I ran a narrow band for 6 or so years on a carbed car and now realize I was only shooting in the dark before.
wow.. what a difference
I can't say enough about it...
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Supervee engines were based on the Type 4 industrial engine. The engines were no destroked, they had a smaller, industrial only bore size. These engines generated in the neighborhood of 170HP and were similarly prepared to the production engines we build today for SCCA due to rules.
The pic up top is not period correct, if it were it would not be using those pierce intakes and a set of webers, FSV engines used a VW part numbered intake manifold and solex 40mm carbs. Those intakes are costing him 6-8% of flow more than likely, due to their design.
That guys exhaust is killing his performance, no collector = no power-
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