rear main seal 308 rope.

[FATBOY]

try rocket indusrties or parramatta performance (high performance world )for your catch can
cheers fat

[colt]

Good on you, Ed. 172 hp at the wheels sounds a whole lot better than 50 or 60.
Colin

[FC-V8]

Ed
      172.5 rwhp allow about 25% loss through the drive line should give you about 230 horses at the flywheel
thats not bad in anyones language.  
The figure I am amazed with is the 411.7 ftlb of torque thats huge. Thats got to put a smile on your dial.

Cheers
Glenn
 

[craiga]

Ed,

Glenn's spot on. My trusty drag racing calculator gives an estimated ET of 14.08 seconds (weight guessed at 2800 lb's)  add a little extra time for traction issues etc and you've built yourself a high 14 second car. Pretty reasonable for an FE wagon.

At least fair competition for Leon's tar tearing blown 6 cyl ;-)

Cheers,

Craig.

[Ed]

hey thanks for that guys..

unfortunately my Nats preps have been dealt a SERIOUS blow.

did a run to Evans HEad on the weekend and..

the rear main spat after I forgot to relieve the build up of pressure in the block.

i ended up dumping the gases out of the rocker breather thru two hoses to the ground.

i've narrowed down the offender as No 1 cylinder after reading the plugs  after about 2000kms.

i'm hoping to fix the seal with engine in this time. (this is why i used a neoprene seal, however I doubt a rope seal would of given out).

the excessive blow by on No 1 has me worried, I'm even debating trying to re-ring it in 3 days..

bloody thing... I knew when I had the motor out last time I should of spent a day or so more to do the lot.

Ed.

[craiga]

172.5/6 = 28.75 RWHP/cyl

172.5 - 28.75 = 143.75 RWHP (5 Cyl's)

Geez Ed, what's your problem? Your still have more than triple the power of those old grey smokers!!!

 :o :o :o :o

Hope you make it regardless Ed.

Cheers,

Craig.

[Glenn 'Stinky' Stankevicius]

Better pull your finger out Ed!
There are a lot of people who want to see your car at the Nats and maybe even have a chat with you  ;D

[Ed]

work has commenced..;D

I mean it only used 8L of oil to Evans and back... 1L per 100kms.
in addition it has rust proofed the underbody... lol

i will be burning the candle at both ends to pull this off.

the parts have been ordered to fix the seal.

the piston willbe popped out later tonite and i will see what size it is.. there should be a stamp right?

this leaves me about a night to get it back together.. no sweat...

Cheers

Ed

[Ed]

i meant 1L/200kms...

[Ed]

... managed to tear most of the motor apart..

unfor the piston ring issue will need to wait until after the Nats.  Will drive it gently down to PI to avoid too many issues.

rear main seal had turned 90 degrees again!  >:(

this makes about 2 rear mains doing that in as many weeks.

I had put permatex on the lower half of the seal this time to stop it from turning.. looks like it didnt work.

anybody have any ideas how to stop a round seal turning??
perhaps not making the seal exactly flush with the block and cap??
silastic as glue in the lower half seal??
I read some blokes pin the rope seal using a 5/16" pin.. will do this on the re-build after Nats.


ANY ideas very welcome.

Cheers

Ed

[Glenn 'Stinky' Stankevicius]

So Ed, what was the final oil consumption tally for the trip?  :P

[Ed]

Heya stinky,

I've only just logged on here since the Nats,  been away on business last week etc..

Car used about 10Litres!!  was gushing like the Exxon Valdeez, but hey, it was cool I made it there.

even lost the oil cap and the windscreen wiper on route to PI.
 ;D

I am pulling the motor out again this week and fixing it properly, and putting through a new set of rings hoping this will get about 18months to 2 years of crusing kms.  then I am sourcing a brand new 5.7Litre bottom end.

great to meet up at the Nats.

Cheers

Ed

[Ed]

rear main finally fixed.

the secret ingredient is superglue (Cyanoacrylate).  this stops the seal turning.

Cheers

Ed