Horizontal fan on a 911? LOLA PORSCHE

[911hillclimber]

Thanks Jonathan, will try them again. (tried this morning.) I did a harder look at Elephant today and have found a Setrab cooler that can be had with the M30 wide bore fittings, even with a fan set too! Coolcava are on the case, and so are Pace. Failing everything I can get the lot from Elephant, but I want to support the Brits if I can (although the stuff comes from the USA and Sweden!) The rad is 50mm matrix x 405mm x 194 about the largest they do and will fit the side pod of the car perfectly. This is almost as hard as sorting the rear uprights!

 

[911hillclimber]

Solid day on the Lola, and i hope the engine is in for good (or at least till the end of 2009). Taken ages to get this far, and still miles to go, but I thought you would be interested to see things.

 

[911hillclimber]

And another:

 

[Gary71]

Almost there now! I guess you are at the stage now where you spend endless hours fitting small parts, doing wiring etc, and most frustratingly it looks exactly the same as when you started the day in the garage!

 

[911hillclimber]

There are 5 major things left to do before the small-fry is attacked: Oil lines from the USA (UK people not interested) Brake lines (flex hoses or copper?) Fuel lines (means doing the webers) Electrics Set up at Bob Watsons. I dread to think how those top-line topics will expand when I get to the detail. The silencer bracket off the gearbox took me 2.5 hours to do! I need to work harder. I think I have just 200 spare hours left to my deadline/first outing [&:]

 

[911hillclimber]

I've found out that these tyres are too NARROW for the 14'' wide rims! Each needs to be 1'' wider still. I think I will have to widen the rear body or buy narrower rims (about £800 for centre locks) I have a patent applied for on the silencer mounting 'infinitably adjustable' strap, so hands off. I have found out that my bargain Inlet manifolds are for a carb 911 engine and not an injected engine. PMO make 'a mechtronic' manifold that masks the injector port off with the right thermal spacers, so they will need TIG welding and some machining plus the right insulator kit ($50). Richard Parr at PMO was realy fast to help me, typical USA supplier. I have resigned myself to buy my parts from the USA as most of the UK suppliers I've used for special (motorsport) parts are 'dead'. No call-backs, no emails, no faxes returned even. [8|]

 

[madmoog]

Looks awesome Graham, going to be at Barbon this year??

 

[911hillclimber]

Yes, but not in the Lola unless I find a magic wand! Time is slipping by, and there is so much more to do. Hoping to get such a project done in 9 months was a bit ambitious! After a huge effort, the oil cooler came today...damaged...but saveable. Waiting for fans and some other parts. UK suppliers continue to fail me and today I was told as good as go to away and find your stuff somewhere else.And phone next time you want us...[8|] Feel a bit delated now, so I hope the weekend picks me up and i get the rest of the cooler parts and finish the cooler installation.

 

[911hillclimber]

Emptied the garage to sweep all the dross up, but took a few pics for the album:

 

[Gary71]

Damn that looks good. Are you sure you can get enough oil in that tank[]

 

[911hillclimber]

Oh yes! Tank is 10 litres and the rest of the dry sump a further 4. Mega money oil changes! I was staring at you old headers today!

 

[colin appleton]

Graham, That all looks very professional-what oil do you intend to use,with that volume in circulation,each cc will get little use?

 

[911hillclimber]

My theory is my 911/3.2 bitza hillclimb/road car uses 14 litres. It can get to 220deg F on repeated hard runs up a long hard hill @ 220 bhp.(stock 3.2) So, similar engine (230 bhp max) same oil reserve but with far less tubing. The Bitza has the serpent cooler incidentally. Being dry sump it will all pass round, but at least when I'm delayed waiting to run the hill it should have enough there to keep cool. The big cooler has a good fan on it just in case, but will prob be hard wired to the ignition system so runs when the engine runs. You can see the cooler to the right, currently with one large pipe (bigger than the stock 911 pipes) on it with fan. This is the 'hot' pipe from the pump to the cooler. The 'cool' pipe runs from the other end of the cooler to the top of the dry sump tank with the red cap on it. For oil it will run Shell Helix as my Bitza has for 21 years, so nothing too fancy.

 

[Gary71]

ORIGINAL: 911hillclimber I was staring at you old headers today!

Are they still on the car or did you just use them for patterns?

 

[911hillclimber]

Definitly on this car, but a bit cut-n-shut to get over the shallow Lola chassis. I welded like mad, then wrapped them with heat insulation to protect everything from radiant heat and to hide my MIG welding...... They certainly did me well Gary. ps: Matt (black 911 who you know well) came to see the racer other weekend. Those webers are his on load at the moment. I live about 1/4 mile from him. Sadly these would not fit, so gave them away to someone building a 914/6

 

[911hillclimber]

Here they are!

 

[911hillclimber]

A little bit of an update if you are still watching! (?) Spent ages on small details and the dry sump is all plumbed bar the feed pipe which will cost nearly £200, so that will be done 'just in time'. Been a nightmare getting the parts together, but it all came from elephant Racing in the end. Expensive, but one stop shopping. Seems only Porsche use metric fittings in the world I think... Oil cooler is in with a nice fan and all ducted to the body lower side pod and all rubber mounted. Next to that is the fuel system, all done now and just the webers to do. That in it's own right has been hassle as i wanted to use the 40 IDC's that came with the engine. When Terry had the motor it ran massive 46 IDA's, but the 40's should make good torque. After some hassle it is off to the USA again and PMO for chokes, insulators and fuel rails. PMO do a lot more for webers than you think. Parts here in 10 days I hope and then the rebuld can be done. I have found trumpets and rainshielded K&N filters so it all will look very '908' with that fan all sticking out of the top. Electrics will be next and the suspension set-up which will be DIY. I like suspensions, so it will be good with a couple of mates who know what they are doing. First time that has happened in my garage! The broad plan is engine to fire (splutter until Bob Watson has tuned them), suspension by end of April. Brakes and body by end of May with possibly a holiday to Provance and a hillclimb there included...and then a test day or 2 at Curborough in June. A race in July!

 

[Mark_Bennett]

Don't forget to tell us when and where ! []

 

[911hillclimber]

You'r kidding! Have you lot turn up? I'll be wetting myself enough at the time at it is.DDK lot are saying the same too....[&:] 12 months ago in late May it looked like this, just so simple. Maybe i should have fitted a Cosworth 4 pot and Hewland box after all. i would be racing this weekend!

 

[911hillclimber]

But i would not have had so much 'fun'