New engine

[Diseazd]

Thanks EuroDat .........I'll need help from Five and Dime with the video. BTW......Idaho Kid.....thanks so much for the early exhaust manifold.....very nice. Guy

[Jeff G 78]

Beautiful as always Guy! Are you going to get dyno numbers on it?

[Diseazd]

Thanks Jeff.....still waiting on my good friend Russ to get his dyno moved. Iimagine it should be close to the otherL28's I've built .....around 170 rear wheel h.p. , but I'd still like to know. They're just very fun exhillirating motors to drive .....nice street motors.

[madkaw]

Don't you wish they(engines) stayed that pretty forever. But I rather have a nasty looking runner;)

[Diseazd]

Just too bad we don't all live closer together......but then we'd all stay in trouble! :laugh:

[Jeff G 78]

If I lived close to you Guy, I'd break into your garage at night just to drool on your cars...

[Diseazd]

Put 50 miles on the new engine......runs great....I haven't pushed it yet, but will soon.

[Jeff G 78]

Did you dyno this one yet? What do you expect to get at the wheels? It seems like it should make about 185 or so.

[Diseazd]

Jeff....My friends dyno still isn't set up....my guess is 170 at the wheels. It runs best at 18 degrees advance at idle. I love the combo of short stroke and bigger CID. It's a really smooth engine. I'm running this combination in the orange and gold car while the white and green car are running the L28 crank and rods .....all 4 L28's are running shaved and shimmed P79 heads with stainless swirl valves and Isky Stage III cams. The silver 73 is running a .040 over L24 with an E31 head with L28 valves and an Isky Stage II cam.

[madkaw]

Guy,

always glad to see some engine building going on here at CZCC!

A couples notes of discussion-I am suprised you have made so many engines the same way,i.e., same cam ,etc... Your choice, but thought a little variance to spice things up or experiment maybe with a different cam.

Have you driven a triple carbed L engine yet? Your combo begs for a hard hitting induction system with accelerator pumps!!!!!!!

How does the destroker compare to the L24?

I like your engine build, but probably never go that route. I think I would rather make the full stroked L28 spin up faster with lightened flywheel/clutch and cam set-up.

I have a P-79 head for anyone interested. Came off a runner and I won't be using it. The chambers look great on the P-79, but I'm set up for square exhaust

[Diseazd]

Steve.....I'm not looking for obscene numbers, just something "fun to drive" and these engines are a ball. I really like the simplicity of the SU's.......don't really want to get into jets, bleed valves etc. etc. For what I'm looking for, street performance, these engines fill the bill. I would like to build a stroker motor someday, but right now I'm motored out. The mix/match L24/L28's are quite a bit different from the straight L24's......might have something to do with the bore to stroke ratio you get with the big bore L28 blocks.

[madkaw]

I'm with you as far as the 'fun factor'. It's the total package of sound , feel.

The triples are a unique fun for the inline motors. Not too many engines have this option. It's not about the numbers, or I would just say turbo charge it.

I will admit that frustration of tuning triples might diminish the fun. I have been lucky with my Mikunis, pretty much set them - forget them.

You never did say if you have driven a triple carb?

Wish we all lived closer to swap out keys!!!!!

Sounds like your L24 is built just like mine( except for the triples)