What kills differentials is torque, not hp. If you do not do too much WOT on 1st gear, and you are careful on the shift from 1st to 2nd, it will hold for a while ....

 

I've been through a few diffs in my cosworth days, in theory the 440 should make over 400 hp and over 500lbft, being open diff my guess is diff will be fine it will just spin 1 tyre all the time lol

Ordered 90 amp 1 wire alternator today along with a rewire should then be able to set it up properly, just need wideband on and tune the carb and should be good to go hopefully, il get a video of tearing up my 1/4 mile farm concrete / tarmac road

 

Looking forward to the video!

 

Slight setback she's running warm stationary so rad is being recored 5 core rad and 3" taller to accommodate 16" kenlowe pull fan direct on core, should be back next week if temp holds below 90c will be getting first test drive then will try get a video

 

COOL!!!!!

 

She is now mate massive rad in there and 16" kenlowe pull fan it just holds 90c fan is in constant though it can't get it down to 80c to kick the fan out, but that's on a new fresh engine that is still tight, as it loosens up it will be easier to cool.



We physically can't fit a bigger rad it won't fit, that is a modern 5 core 1" deeper and 3" taller than original core

Gearbox engages gears just have a brake shoe stuck on now to release and I can try it up the road, and the bonnet wont close but if I fit a 14"x2" filter element I think it will.

It starts on the button and revs clean half throttle or full throttle no bog down at all stationary

 

So I want to see smoke, lots and lots of smoke!

Letter rip!!!!!!!!!

 

weve had a drive in it today


https://www.facebook.com/ajb69guy28/videos/10207970644920122/

feels good so far, first time I nailed it it filled the car with tyre smoke , one of my fitters grabbed his phone and filmed second one, didn't pull anywhere near as hard and shes now banging from trans and can smell burning trans oil so something is amiss in gearbox now, engine seems good though so far so back on the ramp she goes lol.

 

Isn't hot rodding fun!

 

Sure is lol I wish he had filmed the first run best burnout I have ever done, trans does sound bad but I have a heap of spares so we will have a play see what we can do

 

Awesome... Great Progress...

 

Cheers were getting there, trans is not a happy bunny though so I've bit the bullet today and bought a tci Street fighter 727 rated to 625 hp, a tci 2400 convertor and an oil cooler

I thought I've got a new engine now so want a new trans for it up to the job, should be here tmrw, gonna set max advance at 37 degrees and try it again

 

It's time to think about the rear end!

 

I shall only do it if it fails, havnt had time to fit trans yet but I'm sure torque is defiantly problem like I've seen on my cat dozers engine labouring , full of oil , overheating and smoke from bell housing, not sure what noise was it was loud clonking from trans tunnel

 

I'm sure it will like the converter, definitely loud.

 

Well we let the trans oil out today it was brand new oil done just 4 miles of testing, it's now as black as engine oil and stinks of burning so definitely was a serious problem in there

New trans and torque is now all bolted in, just a few small bits to finish off and test drive again hopefully all good now

 

Looking forward to the video, hope to see the car thru all the tire smoke!

 

The car is all back together jacked up and ran through all gears up to 60 mph a few times. Set max ignition timing at 35 degrees, to wet to run up the road though outside my workshop is a mix of hardcore and clay from dozers so need to wait til it dry or a frost to get it out, definitely runs sweeter now though I think the old torque was acting as a brake

https://www.facebook.com/ajb69guy28/videos/10208218093586184/

https://www.facebook.com/ajb69guy28/videos/10208218005303977/

 

Not on facebook, I can wait for u tube 4 a video. Let ur rep teter chep!