 Hydraulic vs solid cam for weekend cruiser, Pros and con |
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| 914Sixer |
 Feb 25 2007, 09:09 PM
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914 Guru  Group: Members Posts: 8,906 Joined: 17-January 05 From: San Angelo Texas Member No.: 3,457 Region Association: Southwest Region 
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I know that the hydraulic is frowned on. All of the later type 4 motors went this route. Even the last Type 1 Beetles from Mexico went there too! The newest 911 are hydraulic.
I am not going racing just crusing in my 73 2.0. I know the power band is different but most of the driving will be under 4500 rpm. I plan on running some modified Hoffman AMC 2.0 heads, 94mm Euro pistons, 1.7 rockers with 911 swivel feet, solid rocker spacers and stock FI. Nothing exotic. |
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| Bleyseng |
Feb 26 2007, 09:50 AM
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Aircooled Baby! Group: Members Posts: 13,035 Joined: 27-December 02 From: Seattle, Washington (for now) Member No.: 24 Region Association: Pacific Northwest |
Since you are in Texas, I assume its hot in Texas. So I would look at lowering my oil and head temps instead of the "ease of not adjusting the valves". The 9550 cam drops head and oil temps alot! Now that makes for a good weekend cruiser, nice safe cool engine temps while you drive 200 miles on a cruise.
If you run swivel feet the engine is really quiet anyway and doesn't seem to need adjustments just checking. |
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914Sixer Hydraulic vs solid cam for weekend cruiser Feb 25 2007, 09:09 PM
ahdoman Mark,
I'll chime in hear since I currently own... Feb 25 2007, 09:56 PM
Johny Blackstain
Mark,
I'll chime in hear since I currently ow... Feb 26 2007, 07:36 AM anthony So for a weekend cruiser you are trying to save yo... Feb 25 2007, 11:01 PM markb I've had them in my 1.7 since I got it in 99, ... Feb 26 2007, 01:03 AM Mark Henry I build engines and refuse to use hydro's, if ... Feb 26 2007, 11:43 AM Jake Raby I also refuse to use hydraulics.
Anyone too lazy ... Feb 26 2007, 12:31 PM 914Sixer I only asked, because I built a 2.0 motor with hy... Feb 26 2007, 06:43 PM Johny Blackstain I realize it was 20 yrs ago, but could you elabora... Feb 26 2007, 07:09 PM Brando Avoid hydros... The 2.0 I got (and rebuilt) came w... Feb 26 2007, 09:01 PM SGB I rebuilt my 1973 2.0 engine 15 years ago and abou... Feb 26 2007, 10:12 PM |
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