engine bay ...old style

peasant

Remember the days, when you lifted the bonnet ...and there it was, the engine?

No acres of plastic, no miles of cables, no computers, no covers. Everything just there to look at, explain itself and be serviced?


For those who don't ..here's a picture of a 1979 1200 cc Opel Kadett C engine.
Tiny, isn't it?

beatman91

wow thats a clean engine bay

kona

beatman91 wrote: »

wow thats a clean engine bay

not as clean as mine:p:D

i never understood why old cars have such big engine bays, my minis engine bay is minute, but still takes the engine, granted fixing the thing is painful, and you need double jointed-ness:D

astragte_mk2

tat looks like a clean kadett, u dont see many of them around now. Those pushrod engines were great little engines, very straightforward. puttin in a set of pints was as complicated as it wud get.

mike65

God be with the days you could see all the bits

Mike.

peasant

the rest of the car is just as clean ...just been restored


for sale in Germany

peasant

and now compare with a similar sized Corsa engine

beatman91

There was one of them kadets rotting away in Clontarf, I've seen it a year ago.

I know what your saying you open the bonnet and there is a sheet of plastic there covering everything.

carchaeologist

Shove one of these in its pipe and smoke it!!!Cant beat the old red top!!

Plug

Alot of buy racers leave the timing belt exposed and paint the pullys. They think it makes it go faster!

Run_to_da_hills

The 2cv didn't have much of an engine if you opened the bonnet, It also gave you the choice of using a starting handle and wheel chocks if the hand brake failed :eek:

Neilw

Plug wrote: »

Alot of buy racers leave the timing belt exposed and paint the pullys. They think it makes it go faster!

Not really, they are usually anodized alloy pulleys that can be adjusted to advance or retard timing. Handy when tuning a na engine.

JHMEG

Neilw wrote: »

Not really, they are usually anodized alloy pulleys that can be adjusted to advance or retard timing. Handy when tuning a na engine.

AEM adjustable cam gears as installed in a Focus:

carchaeologist

How about this a 27 litre meteor engine in a rover SD1!!imagine the torque!!!

Yakult

Plug wrote: »

Alot of buy racers leave the timing belt exposed and paint the pullys. They think it makes it go faster!

*faceplam*

:rolleyes:

carchaeologist

carchaeologist wrote: »

How about this a 27 litre meteor engine in a rover SD1!!imagine the torque!!!

Saw that on piston heads. Quite the job!

craichoe

New cars - Sky TV Porn
Old Cars - German/Dutch Porn i.e. fully spread, can see everything

Ferris

I think this looks really clean, zetec engine on a mk2:



From here:
http://cbradleymotorsport.co.uk/car%20build.htm

captainosull

craichoe wrote: »

New cars - Sky TV Porn
Old Cars - German/Dutch Porn i.e. fully spread, can see everything

Nice analogy Mr.Clarkson....oh sorry - Mr Craichoe

carchaeologist

Ferris wrote: »

I think this looks really clean, zetec engine on a mk2:



From here:
http://cbradleymotorsport.co.uk/car%20build.htm

I dont think thats a zetec,looks more like a opel 16v redtop on carbs to me...

bbam

astragte_mk2 wrote: »

tat looks like a clean kadett, u dont see many of them around now. Those pushrod engines were great little engines, very straightforward. puttin in a set of pints was as complicated as it wud get.

I had a 1979 c type, a friend fitted a 1.6 engine from an Ascona into it.... Real nice car to drive and it went like hell...

S.I.R

Plug wrote: »

Alot of buy racers leave the timing belt exposed and paint the pullys. They think it makes it go faster!

paint the exposed sections of the brakes, spray on a brembo or Baer brakes embleme and before you know it your car has 6 pot brakes with carbonite pads.... adds roughly 2000 to the valve and makes it stop from 100 in about 50 meters less....


* please note - only works on honda civics.... mainly ones with tyre R badges but are actually 120 hp 1.4 injections