DRB rebuild blog

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Progress is what I asked for and my mechanic has certainly delivered. The car is back together apart from the bonnet.




The donk is running and is due to go to the dyno on Tuesday for a 3 day full tune. I'm really looking forward to hearing the machine roar into life

We have had to address the problem of clearance for the bonnet scoop. Well basically, it doesn't fit. The problem is that the throttle body is the same height as the bonnet. Also the dizzy is a little tall and the trottle arm rotates up and back towards the fire-wall making the air cleaner assembly selection very difficult. This pic gives you an idea of our clearance issues:


As it stands now, once the car returns from the dyno we will have a hole cut in the bonnet so that the air cleaner (not the paper one pictured) can protrude. I figure that we will need the hole in the bonnet anyway so at least this will make it driveable for the time being and allow some thought to go into how we can acomodate that engine without having a massive scoop.

Again, any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

All in all, a good result. Looking forward to the next few weeks

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Dyno work done without any leaks, breaks or overheating..

277kw at the wheels = 371.18 rear wheel horsepower. And this was with the the milder cams than we were originally going to use.

I haven't seen the curve yet but I'm very happy with these numbers for a driveable street car without a supercharger or turbo.

What I am thinking is that I'm going to have to invest in some larger rims so that I can have a better selection of tyres to match the performance. 17's perhaps? It will also be interesting to see how the brakes and suspension hold up..

If everything goes well then I should be picking it up next Saturday.