Mythbuster: continuing project thread of my 1303 '75

[70Turbobug]

No worries mate! All is good!

[Humble]

Wally, do you have or can you take some good photos of how your intercooler is mounted. I've been going back and forth about air or water and I want to see how you mounted your intercooler. I've been going through different designs in my head but I think they would be flimsy.

[Wally]

Taking a picture is difficult atm. A mainly one sided attachement will always be perceived as flimsy I think, still it holds up for many years without fractures. The other side is incorprated and attached to the duck tail end too of course, but that only does so much.
The intercooler is a strong bar ans plate one with 2 welded in fat M8 studs both top and bottom. The bottom row I connected with a hollow rectangular tube and that (with two braces) is attached to the original hood hinges.
Thats about it..

[Humble]

I might try and do a similar intercooler setup but I'll have to do something with my case/head vents. I wanted to see how you did the bottom mounts for the intercooler, but the pics you have up don't show the mounts cleanly. Are you using steel for the IC mounts and then going to the hinges, or going to where the hinges mount to the body?

[Voiden]

I saw this picture on Facebook.


Do you have more pics on your car with that wing mounted?

[70Turbobug]

That seems to be an older pic,it has the gold 18" wheels.

[Wally]

Yeah, that was about 1997 I think when the 2,7ltr T4 was still in there..

[volkdent]

[Wally]

Cool! That was at the parking lot of the Nürburgring (2007 or 2008 I think)

[Luismj]

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...type=1&theater

[70Turbobug]

Looks great Wally! What size T4 turbo are you building? I have a brand new ball bearing Garrett GT3582 sitting here that I am not going to use..

[Wally]

I hope the engine will be 1,9 or 2,3ltr and I will probably use the turbo from the 2,2ltr to keep costs down.
Tnx for the offer though.

[effvee]

Walker, what happened to your 2 liter engine that you ran for about two years now.

[Wally]

Originally Posted by effvee

Walker, what happened to your 2 liter engine that you ran for about two years now.

Sorry man, but I only have recollection of 1,2ltr and 2,2 N/A and 2,2 T before that?

[70Turbobug]

Oil supply to the crank and bearings seems to be the largest weakness of the 1200 Motor. I wanted to drill the oil gallies to 10mm and enlarge the holes in the bearing saddles.My idea was to build a compound system with an eaton compressor and turbo.However, it's another costly project that gets in the way of my type 4 turbo project and reliability vs. cost vs. horsepower isn't feasable consideringmy experience with the 1200 challenges in the past.Maybe someday I'll pick it up again and invest into it.