Help, advises needed

[blue72s]

Originally posted by phe
This is a 2.4S last year royal bleue.

Year 1973?
I didn't know there was a Royal blue, do you mean Albert blue? Albert can be considered as "royal" I suppose...
The only other non-metallic dark blue from that era was Dalmatian (ossi, oxford).
Is the car for sale? Got his email address?

[phe]

David,

you speaking about that ??



This is a home made mounting point for that fuel pressure regulator.

phe

[Groesbeck Hurricane]

Phe,

I'm asking about the orange goop under the homemade mounting plate. By the way, I LOVE the plate!

Also, to the lower left in the photo, I was hoping your mechanic had replaced the o-ring seal on the oil relief valve. I only ask because there is new hardware everywhere except on that plate. Very cheap insurance. Thank you!

[phe]

Ok so this is the one.

We even had a spare, but we didn't change anything (just the screw for fun) As it was perfect before, not touched.

Thanks for the remark, I have learned a little more today.

[Groesbeck Hurricane]

Phe,

Wonderful! Can't wait to see the photos of everything together and running!

[snowman]

Phe,
Been on vacation, just got back to look at your posts. Just one word, bit-tch-in. (thats good, ignore the dashes, for the word editor, censor, that still messes up but whatever)

[phe]

The car is back on the road since Thursday.

Going slowly, 3000-3200 rpm, I have done about 900 Km, it is really good the hear the great new sound of my car. Carb "noise" is crasy.

This morning I have tried some little pushs, the rev limiter is at 6000 for the next 3000Km, the car is amaising, a lot better than expected, in fact I beleive that the car was really bad before the rebuild, because now, even with a lot of reserves and conservative acceleration, this is a real dream.

I feel like :

[smestas]

PHE,

Any images of the final product?

[Groesbeck Hurricane]

Phe,

Tres bien!!!!!

[phe]

Track season is back so after a long winter, I am back.

I wanted to thank you all again. The engine is great.

There are some pictures from "LE MANS" track last week-end.




As you can see the driver is happy !!



Big babies on track (I am the second on the right)



Still have huge bearbox problem (from now 3 rebuild under waranty) The change for a 7/31 and limited split diff on my 915 cause some problems, but every thing else is great

(close to 40.000km with the new engine, I do not want to drive another car)

phe

[Doug Steinel]

Phe, is that secret black goo that you sealed the case with leaking? Any other oil leaks?

[ischmitz]

Just how much money did you spend on that rebuild? It's got to be at least five figures in Euro when I look at all the parts......

Ingo

[phe]

no oil leaks, since now I didn't had to had any oil between services (8500km)

As the mechanic says, "it goes surprisingly good." (...)

The total cost for engine, gearbox, seats was about 22.000€
killing parts in order:
gearbox (7/31 and diff spli) 7/31 new OUUUCH
pistons/cylindres
Carbs

suspension, brakes exhausts where already there.

phe

Wow, That is awsome phe, thanks for posting all the pictures as they were extremely helpful. So let me ask this question:

What are you going to do next?

[phe]

Drive, drive, drive.

In fact the balance power/handling/braking of the car is good for a regular driver like I am.

So next step will be as much kilometer on track as possible. A small part of the kilometers with instructor. For that I will probably have to divorce and sell some of my children, I will see, but there will be some negociations

phe

[thor]

phe is a crazy belgian !!!