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touring power, build an engine !!!! |
orangecrate |
Dec 7 2019, 11:33 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 152 Joined: 16-September 13 From: Apache Junction AZ Member No.: 16,394 Region Association: Southwest Region |
So I been workin on the orangecrate off an on for what seems like forever... seems I now have rod issues. Knock knock.... Any way I'm lookin at building a motor, or rebuilding. Inexpensively (IMG:style_emoticons/default/lol-2.gif) I have only 2 real conditions I want to meet. 1- It will run 80 mph all day thru the desert in the summer in Phoenix and sit at stoplights with out cooking itself. 2- It will pull the 6% grades that you hit leaving the valley at 70 in the summer without cooking itself. 75 would be nicer. Guess I"m talking a torque motor. This is a stock 72 with stock gearing. And maybe one size up tires. Did I say it needs to be reliable? Like Phoenix to Portland and back any time of year reliable. And inexpensive.. I'd love to buy a Raby motor but $$$. Oh yea. I will be doing the assembly myself. And I'd like to use as much of the 1.7 as possible if possible. Thanks for the input. Build away. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beer.gif)
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Tdskip |
Dec 9 2019, 07:16 AM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 3,686 Joined: 1-December 17 From: soCal Member No.: 21,666 Region Association: None |
@Superhawk996 - thanks for the response but I wasn’t very clear. Is your take away not to build from a 1.7 and start from a 2.0L case and crank instead? Make sure to use modified 1.8 or 2.9L heads?
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Superhawk996 |
Dec 9 2019, 06:13 PM
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914 Guru Group: Members Posts: 5,777 Joined: 25-August 18 From: Woods of N. Idaho Member No.: 22,428 Region Association: Galt's Gulch |
@Superhawk996 - thanks for the response but I wasn’t very clear. Is your take away not to build from a 1.7 and start from a 2.0L case and crank instead? Make sure to use modified 1.8 or 2.9L heads? @Tdskip In my original build case, I feel that the 1.7L heads were the limiting factor. I would have loved to go to 2.0L heads or bigger valves but it just wasn't in my budget at the time so I made do with what I had just to get back on the road. Remember, this was 1989, I was living in northern Michigan, and a 914 in that area was about as rare as could be. I had no access to easy parts and I had to work with what little my local machine shop could do which was cut the heads, a 3 angle valve job and to simply regrind my pitted valve ends. Guys in CA would have been swimming in parts. I think most of this build advice has been well hashed out by the Legend himself. Nothing special about a 2.0L case. http://914world.com/bbs2/lofiversion/index.php?t141448.html |
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