Zac I rechecked and all appears to working fine today! A Great piece of work your doing, should become a legendary 1600 when you get it all together. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Zac Campbell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 11:41 PM Subject: Re: L ain't dead, baby! (brag session)
> Thanks Richard, > Some of the photos on the page don't have larger versions. I just > checked the page myself and they all seemed to work. Can you tell me > which ones did not work? > I didn't reroute the oil drain hole. I have had the rocker cover off a > couple of times and inspected it. A little oil pools there and sometimes > some oil spits out the cover vent, which is right above the blocked > drain! I am going to need to address that. Apart from that, I don't see > it as any limitation. I don't think Z-series engines had this drain hole. > > zac > > rclough wrote: > > > Just checked out your web page story on the KA head conversion for your L20B > > Turbo. > > A great report on the trials and errors to make it so much easier for the > > next traveller down this path. Couldn't get the last few photos. Are they > > up on the site? > > > > Brilliant engineering work Zac! Tell us how it goes when you're regularly > > using the engine. In particular how the engine temp holds with the water > > jacket changes. > > > > How have you rerouted the oil return after welding the oil hole in the head? > > > > Dont worry about those uninformed persons who were more interested in the > > bolt in turbo power upgrades, the really knowledgable people would > > appreciate the innovation in your approach. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Zac Campbell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[email protected]> > > Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 6:03 PM > > Subject: Re: L ain't dead, baby! (brag session) > > > > > > > >>Santa blessed me with a new digital camera this Xmas so I have been able > >>to finish the webpage on the KA24 head conversion. > >>http://members.iinet.net.au/~zac510/ka24head.html > >>Hopefully it explains thoroughly all the fuckups involved in the head > >>conversion :) > >> > >>zac > >> > >>oh, and let's get some chatter on this list! :) > >> > >> > >>Zac Campbell wrote: > >> > >>>OK, a few of you know of my bastardised L20b engine... > >>>Well it hit the chassis dyno today for the very first time. Mucked > >>>around with niggles and tuning for a few hours then knuckled down for a > >>>good power run. It churned out 130kw at the wheels on 16psi! Something > >>>in the wastegate was stopping it from controlling boost so it spiralled > >>>to 16psi - not that that was a problem, tough ol' L20b took it all :) > >>>The tuner did about a dozen full power runs upto 16psi but the poor > >>>boost control and some other stuff stopped us from going too much > >>>further. It doesn't have an intercooler so intake temps were right up > >>>there. In the end I walked away with a sound base map and a result far > >>>above my initial expectations. > >>>Of course this doesn't happen on any ordinary L20b, I've fitted a KA24E > >>>TRX head and made the few other modifications to make this work. The > >>>dead stock bottom end and KA24 head combo can rev to 7000rpm quite > > > > easily. > > > >>>Here is an engine bay photo: > >>>http://members.iinet.net.au/~zac510/bay_8.jpg > >>>Here is the dyno vid! > >>>http://members.iinet.net.au/~zac510/dyno1.mpg (3mb divx) > >>> > >>>I'm still working on a page with a thorough walk through of the > > > > conversion. > > > >>>Zac > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> > >> > > > > > > > > > > --membersozdat------------------------------------------------------- OZDAT Mailing List Please Note:- Send (un)subscribe requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send submissions to [email protected] No unauthorised redistribution of this email http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/index.htm http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/listindex.html http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------
