Hello guys,
I thought now i finished it why not post some pictures.
I did took a marbella engine, very low km's. stripped it down and did a full rebuild on it. New bearings, seals, cylinders honed and pistonrings. everything measured and made to specs. Dropped in the original 133 camshaft from an donor engine. standard lift and durations.
Fabricated a 4 finger exhaust from some kind of 850 unit and an imitation abarth damper. For more free flow and high rpm power. Put on a 30DIC with different jets to accomodate the cc increase.
I wanted to use the standard marbella cilinderhead since it had one done very little miles. Stripped the head and machined the hole in it to use an old style distributor like a standard 100 series engine has. Also had to drill an extra hole to mount my waterpump. i cant use an original pump because of the reversed engine rotation.
after all of this the swap was done in 1 day on a parkinglot, i could have used a lift on my job but someway this was just as practical and it makes hell of a good story hahaha
engine got oil pressure very quickly and it ran great, only missed a bit of power in the low range, tuned out the accelerator linkage was not adjusted.
Ran it on the dyno, i made +/- 30 hp on the crank. AFR values wayyyy to rich. leaned it out by changing jets. eventuele on the last pull i punched it again and made 42 hp on the crank. not that bad!
When the engine was fully ran in i took it to the autocross circuit to test the track capabilities, or to be exact. the lack of those!
Next thing i will do is do a full suspension rebuild. Set it up to be fast on the slalom course. Its a very fun car to drive out there, the rear engine rwd gives you great adventages on some sharp corners and tight hairpins. you can steer the rear of it in just right to line up with the gates.
got a bit to confident and forgot the big problem with swingarm suspension:
i will put some pics on here when i'm finished fabricating an independant front suspension!