Maybe, but I think what I felt could have been a change in toe on one side at the rear suspension, so the diagonal bar 'on the floor' (end of torsion tube to the mid of the main tunnel, as with the Remmele example, but less extreme, just one bar) would be most beneficial.

Spanner: yeah, scatter shield for clutch or flywheel retention is the correct term ;)

Fitted and all :)

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Today I was at a shop that coincidentally had an engine with one of the very early Engoine Plus heads on the bench.
So I compared a little :D

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Cool comparison! The TP Heads have much more cooling fins and it seems longer ports also.The latest generation Engine Plus heads have also much more cooling fins than the previous ones.Thorsten really did a fantastic job on those heads! I´m really looking forward to this project! Hope you´ll be in Spa this year with it!

Not to sound like a schmuck, but I can do the same comparison with a version 9 Engine Plus head as we just removed the heads from Nigel's 2,7ltr to have a look at the abused chines Nickies he runs.
We only had time today for the 3-4 cylinder side and those cylinders looked top!
Think I made a pic if your interested.

I´ve seen the version 9 heads also.They are a big improvement compared to the first generations,mainly the casting and material,so Jan Lackstetter a few years ago.However, they do perform very well. I would like to see the chinese cylinders,thanks!

Thanks Wally! They look pretty good. How many Kilometers are on them? I wonder how they would hold up under boost.

Dozens of hours of trackdays. And I really mean a full trackday, so hours in a row of continous 'Nigel-driving' (his foot is heavier then mine), mostly with passengers onboard as well.
Twice his V-belt of the alternator/cooling did come of and a full lap was done before noticing...the engine was soo hot, it pinged at idle...
New belt, exhaust bolts reattached (they came out because of the heat) and it started directly and went on for more laps and track days...

They have been tortured I just want to say!

Its during 'events' like the overheat that quality stands up to be counted, cast pistons, or even poor quality forged ones would have seized or collapsed completely.

Yeah, I agree spanner. His heads weren't fractured either. It didn't came as a surprise that most exhaust studs and a few rocker studs were loose though...
Only after having witnessed that (his engine keeping running so well like it did after all the torture), I was confident enough to consider a set of billet heads for the street for myself. And further strengthening the believe in how important alu cylinders are in shedding heat.

Thats very impressive!

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4,03 kg :mrgreen:

Cool! looks like my flywheel!

Hi Wally, I still can't seem to upload pictures on germanlook.net. Back in November I showed my car at the NEC Birmingham and have some pictures I would like to upload. Can I email them to you to see if you have any luck uploading them?
Cheers
Dave

Yeah, of course Dave, we'll do it the same as last time ;)
It turned out so awesome, I'am sure we all want to see more of her!

Next time we meet up, I'll show you personally how it works with photobucket and their links for being able to show pictures :D
You're coming to Action this year?

You still have my email?

Wally, Yeah the NEC Classic Car Show was great. I was on the Meguires' Showcase Stand and the car went down very well. I do plan to do Action (it would be nice to have some side by side drag action with you) and also plan to come over to Spa this year. I have tried to email these pictures to you but they keep bouncing back as undeliverable. I shall try and sort this over the next few days.

Yeah, I noticed you tried 17Mb sending to me, which is over my email box limit. Could you try 10Mb at the time? That gives me time to reroute the pictures.
Thanks!

After long time saving and a very long waiting time, my new Koni coil-overs arrived: up-side down aluminium bodied beauties with top and bottom ball-joint (sp?) attachment points. Hopefully they function as well as they look the part...

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Nice! You're going to be quite happy with those I think. If I ever build a "proper" Germanlook, ie one used on tarmac exclusively, it will with be Koni's at all four corners.

We use a loop of Bicycle tube to keep dirt out of the adjustment slot. Easy enough to move it to the side for adjustments, but keeps the dirt out.

-Dave

Tnx for that excellent tip Dave!

Nice!

Looking good Wally! Were those custom made for you?

Shock porn.

Yeah, almost shocking! :lmao:

Mark: not custom for me, its just a (top of the line) 944 aftermarket part. Not really a shelf part tho, as I had to wait a few months for them to be made.

Mythbuster: continuing project thread of my 1303 '75
 

Those Koni's look awesome Wally,are those racers edge lower shock bolts ?

Yes, they are ;)

Mythbuster: continuing project thread of my 1303 '75
 

Thanks Wally :)

With the new shocks, I also decided to change the arms from turbo to regular n/a 944 ones for a little less track width.
Here you can see where the difference in width (1 inch or 25mm) comes from. The arms themselves are the same casting ;-)

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Mounted my old front disk set-up to the rear where it originally came from. Also test mounted the rear coil-overs:

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Hi Wally, good to see you back on it!

I'd have to see the vent design but it looks like you have the disc on the wrong way around or the wrong side (the bell is obviously correct)...

Rich

Richard,
You are absolutely correct! I used to think this was more logical, but factory indeed mounted them the other way round.

Did you have them all mounted backwards?

The logic is that air flows radially out through the disc, so in by the hub and out by the wheel rim, having them the other way around effectively tries to oppose the normal airflow by scooping it back in resulting in poor cooling..

How's the new engine coming along?

The above pic is from the front left wheel, so that should be mounted correctly?

The engine building is holded till funds allow further progress...

Yes, I saw the front left was correct, just wondered whether you had mounted them all as the rear were..

Look forward to more progress ;)

I see you're sporting some semi slicks there! Looking good Wally,hope to see you again in Spa next year, maybe sooner!

Today I send out a big box for some extremely important work (installing seats, guides and maching the ti valves to fit :cool:

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containing these (mine and a friend of mine's):
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nice that will wake your motor up, not that it lacked power anyway

Looks great Wally!

I am waiting same thing to get done, probably around at next fall i will send my Mr. Pieper billet heads to get done :)

What length those KONI's are?


-Alex