DDK - Die Deutschen Klassiker

Well if it’s one thing this whole lockdown thing allowed is plenty of time in the shed. This means 6 months of evening procrastination was converted to a full week of focus. The hydraulic clutch setup was finished, brakes bled and a list as long as your arm finished.

Still loads of odds and sods to do but she’s driving, we did a 30mile loop with a fish and chip stop by a local lake last night with no issues. I’m always tweaking the map so start ups are getting easier.




This is all very compressed, I’ll fill in the gaps soon...

A busy summer of work meant little time for garage shenanigans, but bits and bobs have been happening - firstly a set of filters to prevent any small animals being hoovered up



And after a run in period, a visit to a local Canems specialist to put a better tune on it. While she was there they flow tested the new injectors to make sure I hadn't bought Bosch knock offs (thankfully real and in spec) and did a whole host of balancing and faffing about. It came to light that I was only getting about 40% throttle from the pedal too, so a quick rejig of my pedal box linkage and we were sucking in that extra 60% of air in no time.

Here we are all trussed up on the hub dyno




Followed by some nice late autumn drives




Work is now in progress on an oil catch can setup, pictures of that to follow when I return at the weekend - but we're getting there, fine tuning bits as I go as I kinda just made it up as I went along. Recently I got fed up with the incredibly low bite point on my hydraulic clutch conversion - so swapped out the 0.750 master for a 0.810 and its like night and day - lovely bite point halfway up the pedal.

Been a very long time for this update, have you been slackin'?

Looks great, very unusual but soooo low!
Don't you find that hard going at times?
I think the To Do List never gets all ticked off from now on!

Calendar car for 2021.
Graham.

Did it make good power ?

Feckin love this car and build! Power figures pls?

Just found this thread - really enjoyable, thanks for sharing!!

Car looks great, bet it drives great too

Thanks Graham, I have been slacking a bit yeah haha.

Believe it or not apart from speed humps and some severe cambered areas it clears fine - and drives brilliantly because it’s lowered the right way.

It made 232 at the hubs which on a stock cam and the worst exhaust in history (next task) I didn’t think was too shabby. It is hilarious to drive anyway as it is - sharp as a tack and the brakes cause eyeball bulging forces. I’m happy.

Thanks for the kind words chaps.

3rd para is the best experience summary I've read for ages.
Drive the ti#ts off it with the family aboard!

That might be tricky I’ve only got one seat in it at the moment lol. Baby steps and all that.

Well I guess this is overdue an update.

All I’ve done really is drive it, and drive it some more going further afield each time - I now feel about as confident with her as I’m going to and she done a 200 mile round trip to Players Classic show at goodwood.

The horrifically agricultural exhaust has now gone in place of a Turbo Thomas full system, 42mm to RS style back box and it sounds mega.

I do need to sort the breather setup out properly - any tips on that front when running ITB’s would be appreciated. Currently looking at vacuum pump options to keep the crankcase pressures down but open to suggestions.

That steering wheel is ace must be upside down, but just right!
On my Lola/Porsche race car I simply vent the crank case to a small screen washer bottle with the pipe through the screw on top and a simple 10mm vent hole so there is not pressure build-up.
Works a treat, cheap and you could adapt any suitable container to suit the car, ie a litre plastic bottle of engine oil.

911hillclimber wrote:That steering wheel is ace must be upside down, but just right!

It's a Ferrero 2-spoke (flat) woodrim wheel - fitted the right way up ...

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911hillclimber wrote:That steering wheel is ace must be upside down, but just right!
On my Lola/Porsche race car I simply vent the crank case to a small screen washer bottle with the pipe through the screw on top and a simple 10mm vent hole so there is not pressure build-up.
Works a treat, cheap and you could adapt any suitable container to suit the car, ie a litre plastic bottle of engine oil.

Oh fair enough, I have a mate who works at Aston Martin and the vent vacuum pump on a vantage has exactly the same bore as the stock throttle body vent hose so was thinking about that but by sounds of it I’m over complicating the issue.

Lightweight_911 wrote:

911hillclimber wrote:That steering wheel is ace must be upside down, but just right!

It's a Ferrero 2-spoke (flat) woodrim wheel - fitted the right way up ...

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Phew