It's been a while since I've been here, but I thought I'd post a couple shots of the B18 motor with the dry sump, breather, crank trigger, and tranny mounted to the back. I was able to machine the bellhousing to within .003 of being centered on the crank. Only problem I've had mounting the tranny is a little bit of powdercoat inthe hole is causing the tranny to be a little tight. A bit of sandpaper will cure that. The extra fittings on the breather tank are for one hose that goes into the pan to help reduce any pressure that may want to blow oil up toward the valve cover through the drainback passages, and the one with the red cap on it goes to the oil tank. In the second picture you can see the dry sump pan, crank trigger, and starter mounted from the engine side of the flywheel to turn the motor over in the opposite direction.

 

WOW!! that's pretty gnarly. what kinda car is this going in?

 

Looks great!!! Whats it going into?

 

This is going into an old F86 aircraft drop tank that is being built as a Bonneville lakester. The tranny will be coupled to a Ford 8" rearend. The driver will sit in front of the engine. The tank is just over 12' long and I'm calculating that I will have to stretch it 4' to give enough room for everything. The class that we will be building for initially will be G/GL which has a current record of a little over 211 MPH. The rear wheel drive setup of the lakester is what required the conversion to clockwise rotation.

 

So what are you using for camshafts? Reverse rotation affects a lot of things, no?

 

The cam shafts have symmetrical lobes, so all I have to do with them is rephase the gears when I put the cam belt on so the exhaust cam opens before the intake so the engine will breathe as it should. I am designing an idler setup that will put it on the exhaust side of the belt because the tension will now be on the intake side. I've also done away with the water pump and will be running an electric pump.

 

Very interesting, wouldn't a s2000 engine work without all the changes? And it has a transmission that bolts up. I cant wait to see the results, really nice work.

 

When I started this I couldn't find any decent speed parts for the 2000. This engine will be running 12.5 to 1 compression, the valve train is using the vtec lobe only and with the Ferrea rockers has been tested at 12500 rpm. The final build of this engine will have a deck plate added so I can run longer rods for a rod/stroke ratio that will give me 11,000 rpm operation. One other consideration of using this engine is the possibility of building a motor with a de-stroked crank to put the car in the H/GL class. This could be done by just changing the block at the salt.

 

very cool

 

any pictures of the f86??

 

Here's a shot of the two tanks I bought. The second is a similar tank built into a lakester. I plan on extending the body up a little higher in back behind the roll cage near the rear axle to allow more room for mechanicals and to shift the center of pressure toward the rear for high spped stability.