Intresting Website

[PHyR 0]

http://yarchive.net/car/

 

I was shown this my Dave Baker last night when I picked up my crankshaft, I think you will all agree this has an amazing amount of useful information to read.

 

Take a look, I have only just started reading it.

[mattcony 2]

HOLLY s*it !!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

this will take for ever to read, LOADS of stuff here

 

cheers

 

matt

[Guest Chip]

Few gems in there but its mostly useless crap like this:

 

http://yarchive.net/car/head_gasket.html

 

 

worth a flick through if you are really bored though!

 

 

Chip

[KRISKARRERA 2 1 Cars]

hmmm this guy doesn't like k&n filters: http://yarchive.net/car/k+n_filters.html

[NickR 10]

hmmm this guy doesn't like k&n filters: http://yarchive.net/car/k+n_filters.html

"Then coat it with a very thin coating

of light grease. A portion of any dirt that gets through the filter

will be trapped in the grease. Run it awhile and then feel the grease.

If it is gritty, the filter isn't working. It will be gritty with

a K&N."

 

Grit that IS trapped HASNT gone through, therefore the filter IS working.

[PHyR 0]

I think he is talking about it becoming more restrictive over time, e.g. clogged up with grit.

 

I do not like K&N filters either, they have less surface area that the std filter and worse filtration.. e.g. you can see daylight through it.

[KRISKARRERA 2 1 Cars]

hehe I love it..... this is David Baker:

 

 

"A colleague had a Peugot 205 1.9 gti in the other day for a set up on the

rollers. It had been severely dicked about with in the air filter, chip and

exhaust department. The owner/prat (whatever) thought it was the dog's

danglies. The rolling road with no axe to grind said it was 20 bhp down on a

good standard one. The owner didn't even realise it was slower. The exhaust

made enough noise to make it seem quick. With all the standard bits back on it

the power came back up to normal levels.

 

Most of the "tuned" cars we see fall into the "well f***ed up" category. Slow,

poor handling, poor fuel economy etc etc. I saw a gold the other day which the

owner had lowered right onto the bump stops. At 20 mph a minor dip in the road,

which I hadn't even realised existed in my own car, sent this heap of s*ite

straight across onto the other carriageway. I turned round and drove it back

and told the guy it was too dangerous to even test drive and I could give him

no opinion on the engine until he had made the suspension safe. Why was it

modified like this ?? - because he wanted it to look "cool" when he went to Gti

International."

[jonah 1]

"Then coat it with a very thin coating

of light grease. A portion of any dirt that gets through the filter

will be trapped in the grease. Run it awhile and then feel the grease.

If it is gritty, the filter isn't working. It will be gritty with

a K&N."

 

Grit that IS trapped HASNT gone through, therefore the filter IS working.

No, he means coat the inside of the air cleaner housing with grease, not the filter itself. So the grease picks up any dirt that has got past the filter.

 

There's some excellent stuff in there. Had a read through some of it and picked up a lot of things already that I've never thought of before. Will definitely read more when i get time, great link

[PHyR 0]

hehe I love it..... this is David Baker:

 

Most of the "tuned" cars we see fall into the "well f***ed up" category."

 

hehehe that is quite funny!

Edited May 9, 2003 by PHyR

[jonah 1]

lol!

 

Wonder if it's someone on here?

[Guest Admin]

This is interesting....

 

> What type of water injection are you running? Two stage pump, or just

>pressurized feed from the water bottle?

 

I have a ~3 gallon tank I fabricated to tuck in below the battery in

the Z engine compartment. this is pressureized from the manifold.

Water flows from this through an adjustable holdoff valve set to 5 psi,

through a holly carb jet and into the intake right in front of the

turbine inlet. This provides flow proportional to boost pressure and

is lots simpler than the electronic ones. I've considered a

block arrangement whereby the flow is blocked until the knock sensor

detects detonation. If I still need water injection after the addition

of the intercooler, I might do that.

[perfecto pug 0]

dave baker talking about head machining

 

Secondly you are very unlikely to find an average machine shop, automotive or

otherwise, that has surface finish measuring equipment. Now should you expect

to. Surface finish is normally only controllable to any degree of precision by

grinding, honing or polishing. A good engineer knows what finish to put on a

cylinder head face without thousands of pounds worth of arty farty, laser beam

operated, computer controlled, robot designed, moron operated surface profiling

gizmos.

[KRISKARRERA 2 1 Cars]

Read the last few paragraphs of this page: http://yarchive.net/car/camber.html

 

"bloody hate 4 inch drainpipes sticking out"

 

"fecking huge piece of tubing sticking out the back end like something off an oil refinery."

 

"spotty youth with the baseball cap on the wrong way round"

 

LOL he has a way with words!

[Guest unter_hosen]

dave baker does seem to have a way with words......

 

read his website

 

www.pumaracing.co.uk

[Sam 4]

He is one of those people that thinks his way is the only and best way by the sounds of it

[C_W 3 1 Cars]

He is one of those people that thinks his way is the only and best way by the sounds of it

 

I agree, it's as though he thinks he's seen and done it all!

 

That comment about 1.9 badges on a 1.6 was THE thing to do in the mid 90s along with the 15" speedlines and lookalikes have always been popular. So what if it made 10bhp less?? It seemed to make the car look better.