Fingers
29th April 2005, 03:06 AM
Hi all, have literally just come inside from test driving my VX coupe after fitting a 45 DCOE. I'm impressed.
I need to sort all the jetting etc as it's not running as well as it could, but still very impressive, I'm quite pleased. At the moment it will only accelerate well at just over half throttle, it just bogs and feels very restricted at full throttle, but at half throttle it's noticeably quicker than with the standard carb on.
I've had to make up a new top bracket for the oil cooler to tilt it forward, I have also cut the front part of the upper channel on the radiator off so it fits into the space at the front, and trimmed the rear sticky up bit to clear the bracket for the upper engine brace. All this have given about 50mm clearance at the entrance to the carb, just enough room to get a K&N filter on, I still have to make up some ducting to ensure cold air gets to all of the filter.
I used a standard weber linkage kit and mated it to the existing accelerator cable. And have used the electric fan out of a standard Beta saloon as it's a little smaller.
All this started as a result of fitting a new water pump, I figured that seeing as it's off the road I might as well go the whole hog, pleased I did. Ideally I wanted to fit a smaller radiator but couldn't find anything suitable.
Next week it's off around to the mechanic's place to have the Guy Croft 3A inlet cam fitted, I really don't want to mess about with that sort if thing, he's got all the shims etc, as the cams base circle is 1mm smaller in diameter than standard.
Has anyone fitted a GC cam before? Will it get away with thicker shims or will there have to be more work done?
Thought this may be of interest to a few of you, oh yeah and I can post photos if anyone's interested.
Paul
I need to sort all the jetting etc as it's not running as well as it could, but still very impressive, I'm quite pleased. At the moment it will only accelerate well at just over half throttle, it just bogs and feels very restricted at full throttle, but at half throttle it's noticeably quicker than with the standard carb on.
I've had to make up a new top bracket for the oil cooler to tilt it forward, I have also cut the front part of the upper channel on the radiator off so it fits into the space at the front, and trimmed the rear sticky up bit to clear the bracket for the upper engine brace. All this have given about 50mm clearance at the entrance to the carb, just enough room to get a K&N filter on, I still have to make up some ducting to ensure cold air gets to all of the filter.
I used a standard weber linkage kit and mated it to the existing accelerator cable. And have used the electric fan out of a standard Beta saloon as it's a little smaller.
All this started as a result of fitting a new water pump, I figured that seeing as it's off the road I might as well go the whole hog, pleased I did. Ideally I wanted to fit a smaller radiator but couldn't find anything suitable.
Next week it's off around to the mechanic's place to have the Guy Croft 3A inlet cam fitted, I really don't want to mess about with that sort if thing, he's got all the shims etc, as the cams base circle is 1mm smaller in diameter than standard.
Has anyone fitted a GC cam before? Will it get away with thicker shims or will there have to be more work done?
Thought this may be of interest to a few of you, oh yeah and I can post photos if anyone's interested.
Paul