Oh man.... modern Euro overhead cam engine, electronic fuel injection, fibergl***, polished aluminum and chrome, cheap chinesium copy parts.... all the things you guys don't want to see on this site A pictorial of my in-progress build. Version 2 of a similar previous build you'll see in the background. Speedway Motors bare T frame Speedway Motors '25 T body w/ door 90's BMW DOHC 4.4L V8 BMW 6spd manual transmission 70's Jag IRS Re-pop '32 Ford grill shell (Two upper halves) Re-pop '32 Ford Headlights DIY Open Source EFI, Independent Throttle Bodies We are currently caught up to my progress thus far. The engine sitting in the frame is an early 2000's M62TUB44, the first iteration of their variable intake cams. The variable cam timing bits are problematic, as well as the timing guides for this year. At this point it's in for mock-up and fab, the plan is to combine these two engines into one: One an early 90's M60B40, the other a late 90's M62B44 without variable cam timing bits. The earlier V8's cams and double row timing chains on the later, larger displacement, 4.4L variant. You may have noticed a distributor above, the EFI does use individual coil-on plug ignition coils that are located under the name plate on the valve covers. The distributor is a gutted Ford points piece and the ignition wires are cloth wrapped guitar speaker cable with two 16ga stranded copper wires. I am sending the ignition coils +12v and +5v trigger through the "ignition wires" and the coils ground at that mounting on the cylinder heads. The current focus is hanging those large GM wilwood calipers off the Jag center section, using modern generation Jeep/Fiat 12" vented brake rotors: Once the rear diff is ****oned up I plan to focus on cleaning up and getting the the engine together. Thanks for checking out my project. If this is your kind of build, or just morbidly curious, please check back for updates.
Hi @Mykk ! You know I'm following! BTW, I was in town 3ish weeks ago on a Saturday and saw you zipping around.
Saw your other build on the other site, read through it and got ideas. You might consider mentioning it here. I forgot what you called it over there…
Thank you for the warm reception. I tried an idea that I can now file under "You don't know if you don't try it" It's just not the right look for this build: ...if one were building a sci-fi racer, modern style, big wheel roadster. The wing would be right at home.
If you were to fit some polished, more vintage style cam covers, I think it'd fool a lot of people into thinking it was something old. The motor, even as it is, looks far better than I'd have ever expected.
Perhaps do something to the cam covers so that it doesn't look like there is something missing? My first instinct would moreover be to lose the coil packs and rig a distributor somehow. But the design ethos in this build is a bit different. It looks like @Pete Eastwood 's invaluable thread on cowl steering is gone. That's a loss; I've had occasion to link to it before. I suppose hitting your head against a brick wall trying to impart basic principles of geometry eventually becomes tiring. But please do a search. The topic has been discussed intensively on the HAMB.
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