Hi everyone, we talked about it in the power plots section, but I want to have a thread here so we can talk a little about everything
This is my race car:
The car is a 1978 1600 Sport Escort, used just for racing in the National Historic Touring Car championship currently.
It's within FIA security regulations and the championship regulations which are a lot, but to sum up, power to weight ratio limited at 7.5kg per HP (eg: a 750kg car can't have more than 100HP)
The engine:
- 1600 Xflow
- 10.5:1 CR
- Pistons are VW 1.8 8v ones (It's hard to get good original pistons here in Uruguay so this is a common mod here. Photo attached)
- Lightened flywheel
- 42mm/34mm valves on a nicely ported head
- Iskenderian cam (.387 valve lift, 290deg advertised duration on a 108 lobe center, .024" valve lash for int and exh. 3500-7500 RPM band)
- Custom made Electronic ignition distributor
- 40DCOE32 Carbs on 55 idles, 30 pumps, 135 mains, 180 air correctors and F11 emulsion tubes.
Hope you enjoy the post. Any ideas or suggestions for the car or engine are always welcome.
Thanks!
This is my race car:
The car is a 1978 1600 Sport Escort, used just for racing in the National Historic Touring Car championship currently.
It's within FIA security regulations and the championship regulations which are a lot, but to sum up, power to weight ratio limited at 7.5kg per HP (eg: a 750kg car can't have more than 100HP)
The engine:
- 1600 Xflow
- 10.5:1 CR
- Pistons are VW 1.8 8v ones (It's hard to get good original pistons here in Uruguay so this is a common mod here. Photo attached)
- Lightened flywheel
- 42mm/34mm valves on a nicely ported head
- Iskenderian cam (.387 valve lift, 290deg advertised duration on a 108 lobe center, .024" valve lash for int and exh. 3500-7500 RPM band)
- Custom made Electronic ignition distributor
- 40DCOE32 Carbs on 55 idles, 30 pumps, 135 mains, 180 air correctors and F11 emulsion tubes.
Hope you enjoy the post. Any ideas or suggestions for the car or engine are always welcome.
Thanks!
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