A brief one car exhibit, 71 3.0 |
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A brief one car exhibit, 71 3.0 |
RickS |
Jan 30 2012, 05:19 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,408 Joined: 17-April 06 From: 'False City', WA Member No.: 5,880 Region Association: None |
I have been working on this car for the past 5 years to bring her to her current state. She started life as a 1.7 with the appearance group and steelies. The one PO upgraded her to a 2.0 with Webbers and fake 4 lug Fuches. Being rather lousey at shifting by feel, I had a side shift installed. She looked kinda fast, but still more resembled a sheep in wolf's clothing, so decided to take a 1 liter jump + a couple of cylinders to give her a bit more umpf. That started an avalanche of changes from which I am still trying to recover.
She has the full Elephant polybronze setup, and was converted from 4 to 5 lug with early 911 light weight calipers. I went with 6's and 7's. The 7's of course necessitated the rear fenders being pulled - but I like the narrow kind of understated look, not to say there aren't plenty of gorgeous flared cars on this site. To help a bit with air intake and cooling I added a GT style engine cover which had been through a fire. It also got Camp 914 front and rear lenses and drivers. Also got from them the LeMans seat which sure beats the hell out of the original. The 3 liter was freshly rebuilt with some mild internal mods - better oiling, hotter cam and is estimated to put out about 230 hp at the crank. It has Webbers on PMO risers and a sport exhaust. Loud pipes save lives! Will have to put her on the dyno. Also had a front cooler added which gets its air supply from the fog light grills - never thought that would work, but it does. The problem rather than overheating is getting her up to temp. Won't bore you with the other details. On to the pics Thanks to all that answered my 100 questions to make it possible. Attached thumbnail(s) |
JmuRiz |
Feb 1 2012, 02:58 PM
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914 Guru Group: Members Posts: 5,487 Joined: 30-December 02 From: NoVA Member No.: 50 Region Association: MidAtlantic Region |
Do you have any special air diverters to get air from the horn grills to the cooler? Or is it just drawn through normally?
It's a really cool cooler setup and not as intrusive as other front cooler setups. I'll either do this or one in the rear under the trunk floor. |
RickS |
Feb 1 2012, 04:40 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,408 Joined: 17-April 06 From: 'False City', WA Member No.: 5,880 Region Association: None |
Do you have any special air diverters to get air from the horn grills to the cooler? Or is it just drawn through normally? The cooler was installed 2 weeks ago with no special ducting to channel the air to the (=======) elongated oval opening cut into the nose of the car in front of the cooler. I am not a fluid dynamics or air flow specialist (nor do I play one on TV) but the thought was that the air will flow from an area of high pressure - the grill areas, to an area of lower pressure - the hole in the floor behind the air dam creating low pressure. So far it is working and maybe too well. Before installing the cooler setup, the car would over heat on the interstate in 5 minutes - now it has a difficult time getting up to proper operating temp - which is probably more a function of the thermostat as well as: a mile of oil lines, 4 additional quarts of oil, and of course the cooler. The proof on the setup and whether ducts from the grills will need to be run to the opening in front of the cooler, or surgery will need to be performed on the air dam/spoiler will be a nice hot 80*+ day, which we won't have up here for months. The exception may be taking her to a DE day and seeing how she does at WOT for 20 mins. Edit: The thought is to take it one step at a time and see if the current solution works. If not, use ducts. If ducts are not sufficient, either cut 4 round holes in the air dam in front of the cooler OR have an air scoop fabbed which will go in the more recessed area of the air dam which will divert the air up and into the gaping oval maw. |
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