What Mick said..... :tease:Big wing mick! said:
Art's "Mad Pineapple" Super Street project
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For pictures lovers I'll post some more of my machining compulsiveness parts I've made up for the Pineapple, parts machined out of titanium that with more since I could've easily made out of aluminum or steel. The first picture is the cars carburator linkage which is machined entirely from titanium material, the second picture is of the cars front steering linkage, steering colom, tie rods and ends are titanium tubeing but not yet cut to length yet. Rack and pinion steering box is from a top fueler, a little over kill for a VW but I think kind of cool.
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Took the Pineapple's crank shaft down to the Berg's today to have it and the flywheel, heavy pulley and pressure plate balanced. On this note I'll post pictures of what all I did to the crank before hand, precisionly machined - removed close to five pounds from the crank to achieve reduced reciprocating weight and did a true knife edging to the counter wight faces as they do to NASCAR and NHRA pro stock cranks to reduce crank case windage, the processes were extremely time consuming for a small increase in engine performance but fun to do. The first picture is of my Swedish Berg 84 mm crank, the second picture is of a Berg stroker crank non modified, you should notice quite a difference?
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Needed to get on mill to make some chips, bored? Instead of using the poorly designed VW shifting rod to transmission coupler I made one up out of a solid block of chromoly 4130 steel, picture attached.
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I'm posting a little information regarding putting together my mid 1970's old school gasser that later this year will be playing in the PRA super street class, this should WOW the present day racers but maybe not for a good reason, the original ignition I bought for the car was a complete MSD 7 system, for the sake of old school look and a little spare time I stumbled on to the all high of Vertex specialists, this new design radically out performs the latest MSD UNITS in AMPS, voltage etc at RPM's above 3,500 - 10,000, the already bought MSD ignition, coil and all went on Ebay and just received new ultra hot rod'ed Vertex Mag with certified spec sheet that makes MSD pre form like a Bosch blue coil and 010 distributor needing vitamins. Excuse - old school car coming back to the race track after 35 years had to have a Vertex ignition one way or the other, pics posted of MAG and brace clamp machined out of titanium bar stock.
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Lance sorry if I afended you, just wanted to share that an old relic ignition like a mag with present day tech advances can serve a purpose, also in the true spirit of bringing back a early 1970's classic VW gasser from the grave I felt it necessary to try to retain the nostalgic look of the original car. I have to admit I may be trying to out tech myself with the mag and some other parts which could hurt the car's performance.
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