Pictures of my engine !

[hydroli]

Here are pictures of my engine. Aluminum castings are sandblasted and clear painted.

Front view


With turbo


Flange I made installed


Turbo alone


Side view with small block dipstick


Overview


Side view Intake side


Weber 38/38 carb on intake


There are a few more, but these are the best. I won't start it before the end of may, I'll give news of it when I'll have tried it.

Thanks for passing by! Feel free to comment!

Olivier (HydrOli)

[rad15E]

nice looking engine,real sharp one thing i noticed tho,you have a 38-38 weber carb thats a 490 cfm and a really good peice-but it's on backwards

[hydroli]

Yes I know, you're right. The fact is that I can't place it the other way without modification to the valve cover, choke actuator is in the way. I'll have to change the throttle wire, but I dont think it will change something more than this.

Thanks for your comment!

[DOCTOR FIELDS]

Doug you oughta recognize that intake. That thing won 22 features... lol One that Robert milled out and reworked the thermostat housing, he opend it up and I ported and polished on that thing for week seemed like. Ahhhh... the good ole days.

I ran a Weber backwards a few times on the Z23 car. I had one on that night I was up at Clinton Co. finished right in front of Tony, and the transmission bearing went out. I remember on the starts the only way I could get it in gear was when Tony slammed into me! lol I was hating those yellow flags!!!

[rad15E]

i remember that intake,it beat my behind a few times in that stock motor you had

[DOCTOR FIELDS]

Yep, everything was stock off the shelves of Gilreath Racing... lol We had to hire security to keep Houston out of the "Stock Room"

[hydroli]

Wow, great stories. Happy to know it all. How many horses was it good for? I guess alot if it broke something lol!!

[zackbandyr12]

will that turbo fit,and everything else?? where did u get it?

[hydroli]

There is enough room for the turbo if it was your question. I found it on ebay, it's been raman.

[Whit10]

what size is that turbo?? what was it on before??

[hydroli]

It's a 14b. It was on a mitsubishi car.

[captian]

Holly Cow that is the most beautiful Chevette Heart i've ever seen! Please let me know how she runs. I have a Chevette that i just started to build, so any info will be very much appreciated, i will start tomorrow. What is a strongest rear end and the best? Thank You Captian Sam

[hydroli]

Thank you very much, I really appreciate your comment, it was hard labor. I didn't had the chance to install it so I don't know how it runs at the moment.

For the technical infos your asking, I suggest you to take a few hours and read what is said on the forum. I think that nearly all important facts have been said already.

From what I red, I can tell you that a chevette rear end will handle 200hp and lets say 200 pounds of torque max... by the way, gear ratio such as 4:11 tends to last longer since the pressure applied on gears is less important that it is with 3:36. Spider gears may be frail, but I can't tell for sure. From my experience, I ran a stock 3:36 rear end with a 305 V8 doing hard burnout, 5 times (one time 50 feet long from one wheel), I did drive/reverse pass with a stock automatic '86 chevette on hot asphalt at 35mph, lets say 20 times, and never had a problem. I don't suggest you to do the last trick, it hurts the car alot, not just the rear end. I was younger and unconscious.


I can take the occasion to tell you how I did my engine esthetic.

- All "grey" parts have been sandblasted and are natural aluminum finish with a high temp clear coat.
- Valve cover have been sandblasted as well... but, I had to dismantle and weld back in place the inner shields because they retained sand... so I suggest to find another trick for this part.
- Each bolts and nuts have been cleaned with a rotating metallic brush then clear coated before installation (and after...)
- Paints used are black and Chevrolet orange/red engine enemals which are from same brand as the clear paint. I specify because mixing brands can involve a compatibility issue.
- After every part went back in place, I applied two overall clear coats.

Recently, I installed an adjustable pulley custom made by a member which nick is "rpm". It really looks great by now. I wish I could post more pics of it but I don't have a numeric cam nor the time to go buy one... I'll show more of it in June.

Thanks again and stay tuned for updates.

It would be great that you start a thread showing evolution of your project.

Olivier

[hydroli]

A little correction. I just found that I was wrong with the turbo, it's a t25 instead of the 14b. A little smaller than I thought it was but still big enough for my setup. It's coming from a mitsubishi eclipse gsx.

[hydroli]

Hi everyone,

I thought that I could let you know what is goin on with my project.

I called a few parts from summitracing:
- MSD 48'000volts coil
- Racing plugs
- Flex-a-lite nylon fan

I will install these later this week, but for now. I'm like a kid on christmass day bacause I will test my engine tomorrow! I can't wait to see how it will do with all the mods I did. There will be no turbo, I don't have time to install it because of my job. I have to be ready 24/7 starting on 1 of june so I will make in sort that it works, nothing to break the engine. I could have installed it before the end of summer but not before mid-august.

I'll post an update soon. I may have E.T. results since I plan to go drag with the car tomorrow night... well today, it's midnight yet... I go to bed.