Nathan!, couple of pics from today. Options

[Trekkor]

He can drive it!

He took second overall today, just about 1 second behind Steve Nieslony.


KT


( Andy where were you? )

[nebreitling]

it ain't magic... i built the damn thing in the kitchen of my old stanford-apartment. people seem surprised by it, but i still consider it a momentum car. it's not as fast in a straight line as, for example, trekkor's six, but has great torque (and is lighter than a six) so it's probably a better AX engine. estimate 110hp at the wheels, 125 or so at the crank. it has good acceleration, but i think that's more from me gutting the car than from the engine. great torque; pulls hard from 3.5k.

built mostly from used parts, got an $1000 2.0 recently-rebuilt core and an older 2056 that i used for some parts, sold others to recoup my costs. reconditioned elgin cam (fairly mild, actually) and lifters. new kb 96's in bored german cylinders. elgin told me the cam wanted about 9:1 compression, so i decked it to 9.5:1. runs on 91 pump gas. stock 2.0 heads; no porting or polishing. HD single valve springs. balanced everything i could. in any case, the only new parts were the pistons/rings, and the only non stock parts are the cam/pistons/valve springs. 44 idf's. i keep the shift light at 5.9k rpm, but don't have a rev-limiter on it. i've looked down to see 6400 rpm (sometimes it's just not worth the shift!). i'm hoping to get another 4 years of sheer, total abuse out of it. which would be less than 4k miles. any more life than that i consider to be bonus time.

these engines are not difficult unless you go extreme, or are trying to extract every last bit of power out of a given displacement. i know i left power on the table, and i'm fine with that. for example, i'm running the dizzy off a 75 2.0, with the vacuum advance disconnected. that's okay, the engine usually stays above 3k anyway.

as trekkor noted, i've got about 2500 in it. that's including about $800 in recouped costs from selling old parts, but also including $800 of brand-new carbs.