JTbo's project (360GL B200K 1988)

Post by **foggyjames** » 11 Mar 2005 12:28 am

Do you want a K cam? I have a spare now...

cheers

James

Post by **jtbo** » 11 Mar 2005 07:29 pm

What would be the price with delivery costs?

Post by **foggyjames** » 11 Mar 2005 08:57 pm

I said £20-40 for the cam, so let's say £30 - in the middle. Shipping is £25-30. I'd say £30, then I'll return anything I don't use. So that's £60 all-in.

cheers

James

Post by **5lab** » 11 Mar 2005 10:07 pm

unless its a lot bigger and heavier than i'm thinking, i would have thought you could get shipping for quite a bit less.. cant guarentet that thou

Post by **foggyjames** » 12 Mar 2005 12:02 am

You'd be surprised just how much international shipping costs. A cam weighs somewhere in the 3-5kg range (they're much heavier than you'd think). If you're doing this the 'obvious' way, Royal Mail won't ship it (too heavy) - it has to go via Parcel Farce, and they're seriously expensive.

I've really done my homework on shipping from shipping euro headlights to the states, and you'd be amazed what it costs - you basically can't post a damn thing for less than £40, but £40 gets you 15kg of shipping through a broker. For a compact 4kg item, that sucks! Don't even bother going straight to UPS or DHL, etc...they quote in the hundreds...

cheers

James

Post by **jtbo** » 13 Mar 2005 04:56 pm

Price seems ok for me, I need of course some details from payment process and you need some address information

Perhaps we continue this by mail.

Post by **jtbo** » 02 Apr 2005 01:08 am

Injection and megasquirt is installed now.

Runs only with 2-3 cylinders now, but started right away when it got fuel.

Also coolant temp is not showing up.

I need to adjust it a bit, perhaps it starts working tomorrow. Also few checks are needed, perhaps bad connections or so.

Post by **jtbo** » 02 Apr 2005 05:41 pm

Engine takes air from wrong place that I have not yet been able to discover, but it makes sure loud whistle.

Need to do more diagnostics tomorrow.

Post by **foggyjames** » 03 Apr 2005 01:49 am

Great progress though!

cheers

James

Post by **jtbo** » 03 Apr 2005 04:37 pm

It runs very nicely with 3 cylinders, it looks like that one of injectors is not working. Injector is 0 280 150 734, 220cm3/min@3bar, I'm looking to buy one for 50 euros including cargo.

Oh yes, that K-cam did arrive few days ago, thank you

Here is small pic from datalog, running with 3 cylinders, but you get the idea

Post by **jtbo** » 21 Apr 2005 05:04 pm

Ok, it was not injector and not even a fuel pump, I bought those and neither of them was actually needed.

Fault was in my wiring diagram, I draw injector wires wrong and because I soldered all wires based to that diagram I got them wrong. Now it runs with 4 cylinders and is much smoother than with Solex carb and I have not yet tuned at all.

There is stll few days work until car is finished, but now everything looks cool. Also tuning could take some time, now some power missing at higher rpm, but that is only a matter of tuning and adjusting.
Idle is very good also, before it did go up and down a bit but now it is what I set it to be

So in few weeks I get probably new cam installed, but before that I need to make few dyno runs.

Post by **foggyjames** » 22 Apr 2005 12:20 am

Yeah, the Solex CISAC carbs are pretty rubbish. I'm hoping the ADDHEs are better quality....if not....hmm....either DHLAs, or ITB injection!

cheers

James

Post by **jtbo** » 23 Apr 2005 10:47 am

Dumdedii....

After:

Before:

Post by **foggyjames** » 23 Apr 2005 10:56 am

Nice! A very telling torque curve though - all over by 3500 rpm! The K cam extends that to 5k, and the power still hasn't reached a peak by 6k.

cheers

James

Post by **V6 Man** » 23 Apr 2005 11:19 am

Like Foggy says the cam is definately holding you back.

Is that dyno reading rear wheel hp, or a corrected figure?

Even if it's a corrected figure it is still an improvemnet over stock, which isn't bad for an old, well used engine.

If it is RWHP then that is an amazing upgrade, something in the region of 25-30 hp gain minimum just by changing the fueling. Add a cam and it'll be cooking with gas............