Megasquirt

The last time I visited my friend Mexx we did testdrive his Karmann Ghia with a new engine. Waterboxer block with widened borespacing, Nikasil-cylinders and pistons from Porsche 911, rollercam and the proven selfmachined heads with SBC Valves. A premiere was the Megasquirt DIY EFI which replaced the outdated GEO Storm EFI. The Megasquirt was really amazing and worked flawless over the rpm band. Still things for refinement are coldstart, coldidle at low temperatures, but its not easy to obtain smooth operation with a radical camshaft. For further info and purchase on Megasquirt go to MegaSquirt Electronic Fuel Injection Computer by Bowling & Grippo .

Aston Martin Valvetrain

Last year we changed a piston in the AM engine but its still not in the car. Lazy! There is hope, last week we set valvetiming and valvelash. Complicated and not very service friendly, there is no adjuster at the cam gear, it must be set with an excentric gear resting between intake and exhaust cam. So you have to set everything at once, intake timing, exhaust timing, overlap and not to forget chain tension. Maybe the Aston engineers wanted to take care of the assemblyworkers so that they earn enough money from workovertime to feed their families.


AM Vantage valvetrain

Bold is 500hp

New Shelby GT500 TV commercial is playing in Germany.

You wonder

how a VW Type1 magnesium enginecase designed for 34hp can handle 400hp. It can frequently in Mexx's Agent Orange but not for ever. Sometimes it seperates by its own after 6 to 10 races for the sake of Mexx who is on edge to put a new better engine in.
Quote of the Q-mile: "Renewal & progress from destruction"


Mahle, Scat mix

Time has come

to lower the Mustangs ET over the qmile. Had the chance to buy a new Paxton Novi 1000 for reasonable money. Reason for Paxton was prize, minimum modifications, positive oiling, passenger side mount, developed from the McCulloch design, longterm history. The Novi 1000 is the smallest of the Paxtonchargers with 5-6psi boost in standard configuration, but capable of 950cfm thats up to 550hp with different drive ratios. The manufacturer promisses powergains up to 30% with 5-6psi boost levels. That should bring the Pony up to 290hp. Who knows? G-Tech and AP-22 will tell the real numbers.


Novi 1000