Is water-methanol injection worth it? This is the question I have asked myself a few times. In this post, I will tell you why I think it is worth fitting to your car. First, let me talk about where water injection started. Water injections were used in petrol military aircraft prior to World War 2. […]
Everything was coming together nicely. I was giving the mechanical side of things a bit of a rest while I take on the cosmetic side. I had everything laid out so it was like putting together a TECHNICS LEGO set. The first part to go in was the charger cooler radiator in the nose of […]
So the Porsche 917 has been finished for a while now but has not been to the track. My boss Mike has been having some health issues so we put the racing on ice until he was better. The car was in great condition. Mike entered for a race only to pull out the day […]
As we blew the radiators at the previous race it was obvious that the 2 radiators were too small for the 700 Hp beast. The problem we had is we could not get more air to go through the radiators. The only solution was to get some bigger radiators. I had to maintain the coolant […]
I just started back at the company after working at another company for 3 years. Mike was so glad to have me back and he was more into racing than ever. The Porsche 917 has been out for a few races after the upgrade to 700 Hp. The car was very problematic. It hasn’t finished […]
By now the Porsche 917 has done a few races. The main issue we have had was the supercharger belt that breaks from time to time. We just kept spares of the belt. If a belt brake at a race we can just swap it out. What I found was the toothed belt pulleys profiles […]
The Porsche 917 had been ready for a few days. I was happy that we could go do the shakedown test at the track. My boss called me in and said that he booked a slot for the next day. We got everything together and loaded so we could leave for the track early the […]
The next race arrived and we were getting everything together to go with. The car was in great condition and everything as working together as it should. The Friday we did a practice session and qualifying, the car was running really well. The next morning we were at the track very early. We went through […]
One thing with race cars is that you can never just get in the car and race it. It is almost like having an exotic pet. It needs constant care. With a race car, it is a similar situation. Before a race car goes to the track you need to go over every bolt and […]
The first test of the Porsche 917 went really well. We had some small issues that we needed to sort out. One of the issues was bump steering. On the track, we tested there was a slight bump in the road just before the end of the long back straight. When the Porsche 917 went […]