Used to be Blue's Valiant

[Steve]

As you know Blue, I know five fifths of f all about racing engines but cant say ive ever seen or heard of one of those. Looks neat....... what exactly are the benefits in a race application??

Cheers Steve

[Blue]

Oil control is important at higher revs Steve, and there are 2 main issues. Firstly windage, oil will wrap around the crank like a rope and cause drag, the scraper literally peels the oil off the crank to prevent that. Secondly, you want oil on a bearing face or in the pan ready to go, the scraper directs the oil off the crank and straight back into the pan and really cuts down on it being aimlessly sprayed everywhere. Good oil control is also worth an amount of horsepower, how much varies but it can be considerable. It seems to be genarally accepted that a crank scraper does a better job than a windage tray. All modern engines have good oil control designed in as standard.

[Steve]

Very interesting Blue, thanks for taking the time to explain!

Cheers Steve

[autofetish]

Started making a tray to hold the coil, ECU, fusebox and any other electrical gubbins I need. It hinges up and will be secured by dzus fasteners to the bottom edge of the dash to keep everything out of sight.

How did this turn out in the end ? Currently doing the same for truck and looking for ideas

[Blue]

Works great fella, I'll grab you some snaps Tomorrow if I remember...

[Blue]

Here you go, this is how it looks lowered, and hinged up, you can just about make out the dzus fasteners under the dash glovebox area.

[Blue]

Head porting more or less done, just needs a final finish and jobs a sausage. Deciding wether or not the lay the edge of the chamber back a bit to unshroud the valves and polish the chambers as well. I have about 8 hours in these so far

[autofetish]

Very nice thank you !

[Blue]

Mmmm, magnesium sheet. Be interesting trying to work with this without burning the workshop down....

[mopar_mark]

20 plus years ago we machined a few McLaren Magnesium gearboxes, as their machine shop was overloaded. Unfortunately,I never got the chance to machine or fabricate with it. Let us know how it is to work with, naturally I’m aware of the fire hazards.

I thought there was going to be a bigger revival of the use of magnesium by car manufacturers. I appreciate it’s difficult to manufacture, but the weight savings could really benefit more efficient cars, as it’s around 1/3rd lighter than aluminium. I know they do some of the roof structure of the Corvettes in Magnesium.

[Blue]

High time I dealt with this bit of nastiness on the lower rear quarter, been covered with gaffer tape all the time I've owned the car. There are no repair panels made for '68 Valiants so I had to make it from scratch, luckily it's a simple enough shape. This is my first attempt at this type of bodywork repair and it went ok without warping the panel. Welding is messy as I was doing a 1/4" at a time moving around until all the gaps between tacks are filled and blasting every weld with compressed air to stop heat build up. Should just need a thin skim of filler to finish.

[ScottyDave]

Nice job

[autofetish]

Thats the Badger !!

Great Work

[lough3969]

Noice!


How’s that stroker coming on.....

[mygasser]

that'll do that then