crazy ideas.
i was adding a coment to a post pelow and it reminded me of some of the other crazy ideas that have occupied my thoughts over the years.
as mentioned below one was for variable valve timing and OHC desmo acuated valves with different alignment on the valves etc.
another was for cross drilled vented wide 5 front disks with alloy hubs and ring type bolt on disks. think sort of like motorbike front disks on an alloy hub. i do think that this would be achievable and useful.
oil spray bars in the heads to cool and lube the rocker tips and valve springs.
oil lines into the rocker shafts to pressure lube the rockers etc.
dry sumping the gearbox and fitting oil sprays onto the gears to reduce hp loss through churning the oil in the sump.
tapered ribbed alloy pushrods to add stregnth but keep the valve train weight down. i still think that this one is worth chasing
a whole heap of different dual wishbone suspension set ups for both the front and rear of the car.
various hydrolic clutch set ups.
in car adjustable brake bias set ups.
piggybacked fuel injection/timing maps so you could switch between them while driving to suit your mood/what you needed
quick release front calliper set ups for "racing" pad changes.
quick release hubs for "racing" wheel changes.
variable length headers where the collector slid, set up so the tuned legnth of the exhaust changed to the optimum for the motors rpm
fitting type 3 wide 5 drums onto a type 1 beam. i think that this is doable, i just need to beat a couple more stuck bolts to get the bits loose to check this out better.
an electricly operated stand off kit. this idea was from back when i first got into vw's.
two different types of 2 peice push rod/lifter set ups to suit 36hp's.
rear 1/4 windows that could wind up/down.
various ways of reducing un sprung weight. mainly front but back as well.
in car adjustable center beam adjusters with various methids of movinf the steering box (or in some cases rack) to keep the wheel alignment in spec.
a clutched fan pulley so you could "slip the fanbelt" when ever you needed just a little more go for a few seconds. i belive that this has now been done with auto airconditioning pulleys.
modifying stock 36hp heads to DP's.
i'm sure that there are heaps more that have crossed my mind but as i'm almost falling asleep typing it's time to go..
Comments 1
Some of these are already a reality.
"piggybacked fuel injection/timing maps so you could switch between them while driving to suit your mood/what you needed"
- There's already a few EFI's / chip upgrades on the market that provide a 'girly button' to allow extreme boost etc to be switched out of the map when the missus uses the car for the shopping trip
"variable length headers where the collector slid, set up so the tuned legnth of the exhaust changed to the optimum for the motors rpm"
- Honda NSX has these and I think the Mitsubishi GT3000 as well.
"an electricly operated stand off kit. this idea was from back when i first got into vw's."
- There's a guy in the UK with a custom orange Ghia who's done something similar - i think he's removed the cooling vents and has a cooling flap open when the car is moving temp gets too high - bit like a Porsche rear spoiler.
"a clutched fan pulley so you could "slip the fanbelt" when ever you needed just a little more go for a few seconds. i belive that this has now been done with auto airconditioning pulleys."
- I could never understand why no-one had used a viscous coupling to achieve the same - this is common for crank mounted fans - the fan spins on a high friction coupling - this allows slip during acceleration but at steady engine speeds the friction in the coupling causes the fan to spin at crank speed.
"piggybacked fuel injection/timing maps so you could switch between them while driving to suit your mood/what you needed"
- There's already a few EFI's / chip upgrades on the market that provide a 'girly button' to allow extreme boost etc to be switched out of the map when the missus uses the car for the shopping trip
"variable length headers where the collector slid, set up so the tuned legnth of the exhaust changed to the optimum for the motors rpm"
- Honda NSX has these and I think the Mitsubishi GT3000 as well.
"an electricly operated stand off kit. this idea was from back when i first got into vw's."
- There's a guy in the UK with a custom orange Ghia who's done something similar - i think he's removed the cooling vents and has a cooling flap open when the car is moving temp gets too high - bit like a Porsche rear spoiler.
"a clutched fan pulley so you could "slip the fanbelt" when ever you needed just a little more go for a few seconds. i belive that this has now been done with auto airconditioning pulleys."
- I could never understand why no-one had used a viscous coupling to achieve the same - this is common for crank mounted fans - the fan spins on a high friction coupling - this allows slip during acceleration but at steady engine speeds the friction in the coupling causes the fan to spin at crank speed.