Febi Guibo's Excellent Adventure...

[thumper3ld]

I'm still in friggin PA... I should be back tonight...

Aye man, what time you gonna be arriving in NYC. Jonas and I will be eagerly awaiting ur arrival outside my house. Dennis, if you can break away from studying, you should come by too.

[nickmpower]

jesus. how much did you drop on that thing

[dude8383]

Aye man, what time you gonna be arriving in NYC. Jonas and I will be eagerly awaiting ur arrival outside my house. Dennis, if you can break away from studying, you should come by too.

depends what time he comes back...im pretty sure ill head out REGARDLESS!!!

have you called him up man? ask him what time he'll be in the area!

i just took my first final of the day, economics...shit was tough. english is @ 6. hopefully i can make it back in time to meet up with you guys.

oh and sam, i completely forgot you were using the 4.10lsd...LOL

[sheepdog]

jesus. how much did you drop on that thing

I doubt he will post a number.
I have a decent idea, and lets just say it is expensive. Worth it, but expensive.

[sheepdog]

hey, I live...

I'm posting this from a motel 6 near washington, PA.

It's been a wild ride; BIG THANKS to doug / sheepdog and his bro for making the 2.5 hour drive TWICE down to see me.

I wanna say right away that this isn't some BS infomercial type thing for Jim Rowe, and his son teddy and court... they are really phenomenal people and treated me like family. If I were to say everything good about them that I experienced in the week (!) I was out there... it would be 10+ pages of posts and you still might not get the whole picture... let's just say they are on the approved vendor list.

Jim's operation is a little unusual... but so are his results.

I've been away from home and work for awhile, and I really had to get back to new york... unfortunately I could not spend another day out to finish tuning the car... sad, I know.

so right now:

- the engine is running on essentially a stock chip. Mark D. made some minor timing adjustments, raised the idle, disabled the O2 sensor, and raised the rev limit to around 7600 rpm or so.

- the engine is also technically, still in it's break-in phase... although...

- our test runs were made on 89 octane gas

- my original AFM was screwed... court was able to source one on a saturday night in this tiny town of 1805 people. Ernest is a hillbilly with a semi-non-running 318iS who lives on the outskirts of richland, MO. What are the odds?

While court was removing the AFM, ernest was shooting at turtles with a rifle. They sneak into his pond and eat the minnows and other fish he breeds.

- And finally... the fuel regulator was upgraded to 3.5 bar with 24# injectors (btw, the 4 pintle injectors aren't really meant for our cars, more on that later)

so, we did some test runs.

All I can say is that the overall performance is phenomenal. Doug drove the car friday night and the results we got saturday with a working AFM were even better.

While doing data capture and driving the thing flat out, all I can say is that the thing feels like it revs instantly and could keep revving forever... it makes solid accelleration from 3500 rpm clear up to around 7600 rpm ...the powerband is crazy wide.

Shifting the car at 7600 while doing 120+ down a twisty country road cost me some underpants.

They don't have a dyno on premises, and the dyno they use in town was closed at the time... we g-tech'd  the car, and our best run looked almost exactly like doug's figures:

1/4 mile: 14.4 seconds at 98 mph.

(this is on a real road (not a track), 89 octane gas, street tires, with basically a STOCK chip and a barn-door teeny weeny M42 AFM)

Honestly, I personally don't really give a hoot about the 1/4 mile time and speed, but hopefully it helps keep things in perspective.

The craziest thing is that after driving all day yesterday (MO to PA) ...even with my oxygen sensor disabled... with this engine (larger displacement, more fuel pressure, larger injectors)

MY GAS MILEAGE WENT UP about 15-20%.

Driving 80 mph (4000 rpm in 5th) in my old car, I would get around 27-28... now, 80 mph I'm getting like... 32-33 mpg.

I'll try to post more deets as soon as I am back in NYC.

thanks everyone for your interest and support. All I can say is that even naturally aspirated, the M42 has tremendous potential. I think with some additional tuning and related bits... a 14 second / 100 mph car isn't so far off.

No prob on coming down. It was great to finally meet and check things out.

While I got a ride, I never actually drove it, my brother did.
I have a darn good ideas though as I have driven cars that fast. Somehow I just missed doing it. A lot goes on at that place. I agree with you about the place, a bit odd, but great people and results.

By the way, the trans rear end swap would kick you into the 13's, and while I know you are not concerned with q-mile times they are good for comparisons.

Glad you are almost home, as I am sure you are.

[sheepdog]

By the way guys, I have been really watching how my car drives mpg and speed-wise.

It seems there is almost a wall at about 80 mph.  When you cross it, the mileage drops about 3%. Granted Febi's with its better power it probably shifted that point up a few more mph.

[nickmpower]

the mileage of the car only appeared to drop because much bigger injectors are being used

and what was it like $15k

[sheepdog]

No joke, my motor just shit the gasket like Febi's.

1/8 mile from home, I coasted to within 500 feet of my driveway, and pushed it the rest. While I have not pulled the pan, I know this is what it was, I did catch it as soon as it happenned though.

[e9nine]

No joke, my motor just shit the gasket like Febi's.

1/8 mile from home, I coasted to within 500 feet of my driveway, and pushed it the rest. While I have not pulled the pan, I know this is what it was, I did catch it as soon as it happenned though.

:eek: wtf  is this a conspiracy?

[dude8383]

:eek: wtf  is this a conspiracy?

seriously! wtf!! im gonna have to check mine this weekend!

[sheepdog]

Post what you find in the other thead. I honestly think we are just scratching the surface on how big this problem is.
This could be another "Profile Gasket" situation.

I am contempating going down to the local racer/machinist and having bolt heads drilled for safety wire so they can never come loose again. That should keep those bolts tight! It is used on raace cars and aircraft.

I am mostly scared of finding the gasket in bad shape and needing to be replaced. Which means, I will have to go rent an engine hoist, or go buy one.




For those wondering, safety wire is twisted wire that pulls the bolt tight by looping through a  hole in multiple bolt heads or an anchor point. Basically each bolt pulls the other tight by way of this wire. If you want to try it, read a tutorial, if you do it wrong, you will actually pull the bolts loose. Trust me, I saw many trained guys do this on aircraft (which is why we have a second person double check). It is easy to do it backwards.

Like this:

[dude8383]

heh, thats pretty cool...can you describe it a little more though..

how does "each bolt pull the other tight by of this wire" ? this wire is looped through several bolts?

[mikesjo]

Febi, have you installed those ignition coils you bought yet? I see you have the magnecor ignition wires .

[sheepdog]

heh, thats pretty cool...can you describe it a little more though..

how does "each bolt pull the other tight by of this wire" ? this wire is looped through several bolts?

The wire is wrapped around the bolt in a direction that pulls it tight, then goes to another bolt, and loops around it so that it pulls tight.

The following pictures show it, but to be honest, these would fail an inspection for aircraft. If you look at how the wire is attached, it pulls the bolt in a tightening direction.



The reason these would fail is the second bolts are more or less pulling neutral, not actually tightening.

Link

[nickmpower]

its mainly meant to keep them from falling out