How (not) to make your Dauphine Handle

[Steve Swan]

Had a couple of hours spare today, so I've gone and done it now



No going back now

Let all the problems commence, Laminova is fitting in it's allotted place, if the mounting cradle fits around the Drysump pump I'll be halfway home . IF...

 

[Steve Swan]

Ah. Well. That's all gone wrong then. Engine back on the stand, will need the mounting cradle completely redesigned, touching everywhere, bugger it..

 

[Duncan Grier]

Imagine your real disappointment if it just fitted first time and worked Steve....have nothing to do but enjoy the car

.....have a brew or beer and get working your magic sir.

Look forward to watching the solution take shape

 

[Steve Swan]

Nah. I'm too old to be disappointed when things go wrong, but didn't need the hassle, going to be a shit job to sort out. Exhaust will need a redesign too. Serves me right for buying a French Manifold.

 

[Steve Swan]

What's this??



Assembled



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It's the build jig for the engine cradle, it mimics the Block and chassis mount points and I almost threw it away when clearing the workshop, dunno why I kept it, bloody glad I did now.



Now I can cut it in 2 and remake the centre section and re-weld it in the Jig. Sometimes I surprise myself, not often enough tho....

After I got fed up of lifting heavy stuff , I had a change of project . I have been waiting just about 2 years for a sound chip, due to Global supply chain issues or America being unhappy with the Chinese , I'll let you decide for yourselves, anyway it arrived and I started to dismantle the analog board, even with glasses I am starting to struggle with these items. Unfortunately I can't get a screw terminal adaptor board, so have ended up with a solder pad board . 20 wires on 20 pads 2mmx2mm and about 0.75mm between the pads. Happy Days.



I took these to refer to after I have disconnected everything and find myself looking at a pile of Coloured Spaghetti ........................

 

[Steve Swan]

When working with Box section metal and esp. thinwall, always close off the ends of the tubes, it makes each piece much more flex resistant. There will be a complex mathematical explanation for this, which escapes me at present, but trust me..



Next is a lot of cutting, swearing and faffing, not necessarily in that order.






Notching for the collector was a menace, but it will do for now. I have another idea on that anyway.



Pressure side of oil system complete



If you were thinking of Drysumping your C1J there has got to be a better way than this



Then Junior arrives on Thurs and says, Good news we got that other house can you sort a hire van for Sat and give me a hand with the Flitting. I write this on Sat Evening coz I am doing absolutely Feck all more today..
Happy Families, Happy Motoring...

GMP (Gie me peace)

 

[Steve Swan]

Progress Grinds on
Cradle is finished and painted



Just got to weld on 4 stainless nuts then split them to be the hooks for the springs that hold the exhaust onto the Manifold.





The silencer hangs on the bumper iron and is free turning on the manifold incase the motor moves on it's mounts, but it's located by 2 World cup Escort mounting bushes so it is securely held in all planes . I actually use it as the rear jacking point.
Hopefully off the stand , on with the clutch , hose out the water jacket and fit in the car , then see what goes wrong next..........

 

[DaveL485]

Very neat mate, nice work. The way your brain works is very satifying.

 

[Steve Swan]

I think it has actually stopped working.....
Anyway I'm a simple guy and I like simple things.




4 split nuts and 2 Sherpa shed springs. The design brief was to make the exhaust demount-able in 30 secs. The whole power unit can be removed without jacking up the car, or using any special tools , other than a trolley jack to roll the motor in on. These days I have reached the dizzy heights of an Engine Hoist which is what I use. I can do a clutch in about 2 hours, but I'm not as fast as I used to be ....

 

[Steve Swan]

Just to prove I'm not sat on my Arse in front of the Telly...



It's Still Fighting, but I've got it on the run .... Temporarily.

Lights on the first compression and sounds crisp. If the intake noise hurts your ears it'll be a good'un..

 

[Steve Swan]

Rather than clog @Adey s thread with rubbish, I'll put it on here. Many moons ago BMW developed the O2 motor for racing. It became either a 1600 ( to preserve block integrity as well as rules) turbo which developed 800 ish bhp in race trim and a mind-blowing 1500ish in short bursts in Formula 1. It was also produced as a 2 litre atmo with 330-350 at near 11000rpm
If you want to know how a happy engine sounds listen to this. It's mostly intake pulse.
Remember this is a production 1602/2002 block.

 

[Steve Swan]

Don't listen on the phone find something with good speakers

 

[andybond]

Engineer1 : What shall we limit the engine to RPM wise

Engineer2: Stratospheric

That sounds incredible

 

[DaveL485]

It just keeps revving!

 

[Steve Swan]

Got the oil system piped up and tested today all good no leaks. The Laminova is great, oil was up to 75 Deg in about 12 min @ 2000 rpm with the water sitting on 90 Deg ( fan switch temp) happy it's Mobile again. Just the breather to finish and the Steering damper to fit. The tank is where the laws of physics prefer and I've fitted a Drain plug to it. I've also found I can fill it through the breather, or I need to make an offset filler. I can use the endoscope to check the level on the weirplate with it hot and running. I may not cut a hole in the car for inspection after all





Access is fine with a ramp it all drops down and out no problem, just a pain with my lack of facilities



Took it along to the drive to do the tyre pressures and back out of the way for now...

 

[Steve Swan]

Back to that BMW Motor briefly.
I found a picture of it in F1 Guise, which I am sure was 1500cc turbocharged, this would be the same era as the Renault RE20B with the 1500cc v6
Probably the last time a Production block was used in F1, probably one had not been used for many years in F1



I'd still rather have that ATMO......

 

[DaveL485]

Got the oil system piped up and tested today all good no leaks. The Laminova is great, oil was up to 75 Deg in about 12 min @ 2000 rpm with the water sitting on 90 Deg ( fan switch temp) happy it's Mobile again. Just the breather to finish and the Steering damper to fit. The tank is where the laws of physics prefer and I've fitted a Drain plug to it. I've also found I can fill it through the breather, or I need to make an offset filler. I can use the endoscope to check the level on the weirplate with it hot and running. I may not cut a hole in the car for inspection after all

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Access is fine with a ramp it all drops down and out no problem, just a pain with my lack of facilities

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Took it along to the drive to do the tyre pressures and back out of the way for now...

Thats such a good looking car, lovely nice neat engine bay too.

 

[Steve Swan]

Bad weather stops play:
It's Fekkin Wild here on the edge of the Red Alert Zone....
Awful to see the damage to peoples Homes and possessions. Work used to find me involved in Floods of all kinds and it's the worst thing to deal with. If you've been flooded out you have my Sympathy.
Managed to find a cheap catch can in the World's Dustbin the other day, nice bit of kit for £25. Dunno who thought up the Fittings tho. It's tapped at M14x1.5 and the nice Ally pipe connectors are drilled at 5.5mm . Anyway they went in the bin and I found the rolled over edge on the can had just enough meat to let me tap it out to 3/8 BSPT. Then I made up the inlet and vent connectors in Ally Now Drilled at 14mm, so it can actually breathe.



Shiny> That'll be the last time it looks that clean.
I think I'll get away with a couple of P clips to attach it to the Re-enforcing frame one up one down to get it to sit level on the diagonal brace, with a bit of luck (remember that) I have only used one tank vent to the can and then atmosphere to keep it the right side of Competition regulations and so it can muster some vacuum in the motor itself, rather than connect the breather to the engine, which I think is self defeating on a triple pump system on a 4 cylinder. Only one way to find out........



Now I have the 8kw diesel heater for the machine shop, I ventured out and made the connecting fittings for the steering damper. Never done one of these before, so no idea how it will turn out or work, but you don't know what you don't know. The only way to learn is the hard way.






Just need to wait for it to stop raining it's been about 36 hrs now........

 

[Steve Swan]

Going off at a tangent can anyone on here tell me about performance measurement on your phone or similar.
I keep finding conflicting opinions on things and will freely confess to knowing nothing about it personally.
If there is a cheap and effective way to do this I'm all ears, but accept that you get what you pay for ..
Drawbacks for me are there is no Database in the world for my type vehicles. They do not plug into anything, anyhow.
From School : Force = Mass x Acceleration. meaning if you know the Total weight of the vehicle and have the ability to measure acceleration you can find out the power.
Knowing what power I had on the Dyno, it would be interesting to see What is measurable on the car, by way of checking for installation losses, which are inevitable, but can be minimised by some trial and error.
I await the Wisdom.......

 

[Duncan Grier]

I used to use a racelogic performance box (older one now) found that a really easy/quick way to test mods. No idea what they go for now mind