Yard sale 2275 is done
 

Well I just got back from Jake's and this time I brought it home. It even came home in a bug. I pulled the right seat out and put it in the floor :rolleyes: .
I didn't get to take it to 6000rpm due to the rev limiter kicking in at 5800. But it made 147hp and climbing at 5500 rpm. The cool part is that the torque is huge (for a Type 1) 152 lb.ft. at 4000 rpm peak and ranges from 121 at 2000 to 140.2 at 5500.
I used a prototype Type 1 DTM shroud and it did a great job. Even with Street Eliminator heads it ran coooooooooool. The break-in was a 25hp load at 2500 rpm for 30 min and the #3 cyl was rock solid at 230 deg. We had to run it at a 71 hp load 4000 rpm for a good while to get it to hit 350 deg. When this shroud is read for the market-place it will be SWEEEEEEEEET.
I will post the Dyno-graph when Jake emails it to me. All I have now is the paper copy.

SWEET! ! ! Thats awesome man... Please oh please take me for a ride in it...

Rockin' dude. You gonna install it on the stock tranny for now, and do the 901 switch later?

Yep, the 901 will have to wait. The 2275 is going in on June 5th. At Kevin Smiths house. He is having a cookout for our local club and it was planned as a tech-day to do the engine swap.
Engine swap first then cook out.

Oh yea, Zens engine was right beside mine as I was getting mine dressed for the dyno. Looks like it is ready to install his DTM and dress for the dyno.

here's a pic.

cool Dave :)

what type of cam are you running?

A Web Cam 122/125 on a small base circle. Not sure if Jake ordered any other changes to it when he called it in. But it has a torque curve like a Type 4. I will post the dyno graph when Jake emails it to me.

I scanned the dyno-graph.

That's cool. Do you think your transmission will hold that much power? Just wondering. :confused:

Cool pictures :agree:

Mike

No. But I'm going to a 901 this winter. I will just have to take it easy till then.

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you serious about that clark?

yea right. that chart looks like too much fun to take it easy.

Sweet looking power curves... Should haul some serious a$$...

Well it is in and runnig. Both Volvo oil cooler are blown out, just could not take the oil pressure from a fresh engine and cold oil. They blew back to back. I think they were week and would have gone sooner or later. Better to got while I had someone watching. But with just the remote filter (K&N) it did fine. Got the carbs sync'ed and the idle set. I will have to go back to Kevin's tomorrow and put the deck lid on and remove the oil cooler plumbing and bring her home (the long way). I will be swapping the engine/trans. in my son's bug tomorow for his birthday.

Dave,
That is great that you got it running. Pity about the oil coolers, what are you going to replace them with?

I still have the type 4 cooler in the DTM, I will do some running on that and see what the temp's look like. Right now all I can do is use a Wish Cooler (wish I had something to replace them with).

You would think that having it in and having one more night off that I would have been driving the hell out of it today. Well I must report that it is still over at Kevin's waiting to put the deck-lid back on and wire up the alternator. I spent all of today swapping the old engine and transaxle in Ryan's bug for the new engine and transaxle that I had waiting for him. It was his birthday and I needed to get the new drive-line in as his gift. I'm whipped after 2 engine swaps and a trans swap in one weekend. I will fire Ryan's up for break-in in the morning, then go get the black bug finished and drive it. Then take a nap and go to work. I will have to install the MSD rev-limiter and do some engine bay clean-up work next weekend to be ready for HoD.

Too bad I'm not closer, I'd love to help. :agree: More experiance the better.

Mike

My son's engine spund great, we did the break-in run on it this morning and then tuned the carbs. But the clutch will not disengage. I fought with it for hours. Looks like I will have to pull the engine back out and I haven't gone over to finish up my car. I'm not a happy camper right now. And I have to go back to work tonight. :mad:

bummer dude. I know all about bad luck like that. :(

We had to pull an engine out 2 times because of the clutch not disevgaging, and then another 2 times changing the transmission, all in the same car in the past 3 weeks, I feel your pain. :bawling:

If I may give advice, from personal experiance, be sure to check everything when you get to pull the engine out. The first time we pulled it out, it looked like just the throwout bearing, then the second time we pulled the engine out and the clutch disk was bent. It seems when we put the engine in we pushed a little too hard and bent the disk, and it was a 4 puck disk so that didn't help any. I hope some of our mistakes will help you not make the same.

Mike

Well I pulled the engine back out and found that the spline shaft on the trans had some light rust on it and it didn't let the disc float so it was jamed against the flywheel. It dose fine now. I need to make one more adjustment to the clutch cable and tune the carbs again and my son will have his car on the road again. I did take it for a quick run and it will do a nice burn-out and has some good power. It's a 1641 with scat C-35 cam, 8.5 to 1, Weber 34 ICT's and a 4 into 1 with a quiet pack. Then it is back to my car.

Here is a nice shot of the 2275 ready to go in.

That looks really cool. Really cool.

:eek: Wow, that looks great!!!

Mike

:eek: That is the cleanest garage I have ever seen. :eek:


Very nice engine........ :agree:

I'm glad I'm not the only one that thinks his garage is VERY CLEAN :eek:

I'm still staring at the picture.... :eek: :bowdown:

Mike

lol. he is wishing that too...and me too. that is a friend's place commonly referred to as the Garage-Mahal. comes complete with leather sofa and large screen entertainment center.

Yep, I wish that was my shop. I did help him decorate it. I built the corner entertainment center for the big screen and audio system. You cant see much of that corner but it has a black leather sofa, black and white tile floor, ceiling fans, bar table and chairs and a keg cooler with 2 tap tower. Nice place to do an engine swap.

Here you go. Garage-Mahal.

Needs more cars in there, too much room. :laugh:

Well I got the engine in and took it out for a romp today. The head temps were great. I did get it just past 300 but I was givin' it some hell. #1 and #3 were within 20 deg. of each other every time I look and with in 5 deg of each other at low RPM with light trottle. I did get the oil temp up (220) after a while and I was running it pretty hard. I will Be adding an external cooler before I get it out on the hwy. I just had the onboard Type 4 cooler in use today and it was kind'a hot out at 4:30 to 5:00 pm here in the Atlanta area, it's 87 deg now (6:00pm). It's ok for short trips but I would feel better with an external cooler helping out on long hauls down in this climate.
But realy who builds a 2275 with almost 10 to 1 compression without an external cooler. I wanted to see what it would do without one. :rolleyes:
I had Kevin Smiff and little Charlie with me for the first run and it is a power house. I still need to adjust the trottle linkage to get full tilt. Maybe I will wait for a while before I do that so I can keep the transaxle in it. It pulls hard as hell and has awsome down low grunt. :eek:

Awesome man... :agree:

Glad to hear you got it all installed.

Since you're such a nice guy and all, you'll take someone for a ride in it? like my friend, show her how much power your Volkswagen has. :laugh:

Glad to hear your engine is in. The external oil cooler sounds like a good idea. :agree:

Mike

Yep I can take somone for a ride as long as I find some oil cooling so I can get it there.
I just got a email from the guy that bailed me out on the engine swap for the wifes Jetta TDI. His wife caught a peice of steel right through the belly pan and oil pan as she drove down the interstate. He has to do an engine swap on it now and I owe him big time for letting me use his shop and help to swap my wifes engine. I need to give hime all the help I can. Even if it means not working on my car and getting it ready for the show. At least his engine will be covered by insurance. I just can't say no to him after the way he dropped everything and helped me out.

That's cool, I understand I hope everything works out. I would do the same thing in your position. :D

Mike

Here are some pics of the RX-7 oil cooler set-up.

As I was ready to hunt down an RX7 cooler today I was informed that our lawn mower engine expiered in a great cloud of blue smoke. With the fact that we have only had 1 income since Nov. and $$$ has been tight. It looks as if the new lawn mower will have to come out of the vehicle tag fund(5 cars all due in AUG). So I will have to pass on the oil cooler search and try to build up the Tag fund before Aug. I will still be at the HOD show but the black car will have to wait. Oh well. I'm sure I'm not the only one that has been in a thight spot.

Bummer... :( Sorry to hear about that man. If there is anything I can do let me know.

Found a 2nd gen. RX7 in a yard close to me. It is a 13B engine. I almost had the cooler out when the down pour started. They want $15 for the cooler. I was trying to get the lines with it. Can't get the long one to break loose and the back of the block and i didn't have anything to cut it with. I will have to return and cut the line. The car is to low to the ground to get under it and try to break it loose. I won't be able to make it back today(got to work tonight). Hope is not lost but time is not on my side. I still need to get it, clean it inside and out, fab some brakets for mounting and the 4 fans I have then mount and plumb it(then hope it holds up better than the Volvo coolers). I will run the oil to the cooler and then the filter just incase it has some funk left in it.