78 vs 82

[rick m]

Go with the 82 and run a Porsche length rod in it. I ran an 82 in my 2110 road trip motor and Porsche length rods.  It makes a snappy motor at the bottom and through the mid range. It  pulls the piston down faster creating more vacuum and yes....it does affect flow in the heads and the responsiveness of the motor.

Like a couple of posts have mentioned,  it is not the size of the motor that determines the dependability. It is the quality of the parts and the build. Don and I have some fun trips where our cars performed well and they were the larger motors on the cruises.  Looking forward to it again in my even larger 2275.

Rick M

[fredy66]

thanks Rick but i do have the 78.4 crank
and the 5.4 rods is here
and so is the forced fly wheal k-1 clutch the 94 pistons and there is a Mexico blox whetting for a trip to the  machine chop
missing heads and cam

any body have some heads for sale 

[fredy66]

i,m so excited my case is going to the Macing chop inn to Weeks
cant Wait to start hammering some engine parts to getter
have a 1.4 rockers coming and a sump
this game is expensive 
but i Hope it be wort it when the summer Com's

[bugnut68]

i,m so excited my case is going to the Macing chop inn to Weeks
cant Wait to start hammering some engine parts to getter
have a 1.4 rockers coming and a sump
this game is expensive 
but i Hope it be wort it when the summer Com's

I'm getting close... my engine is nearing completion.  Still need to dimple my head tin so I can get my intakes on, but the hardest work is pretty much done now.

[Ron Greiner]

I am not a rich man, I buy one part at a time and when I have all the parts for an assembly I will prepare all the parts to the best of my ability ,put them together and then wait till I can afford more parts. I like the I beam rods with arp bolts, but the ones I used on a friends engine required clearancing, the H beams went together with no problems. If I remember correctly with a 78 stroke and 5.4 rod I used A pistons with cylinder spacers , B pistons gave me too much deck .If you use a longer rod it would take care of the deck.

when i,m looking I-beam its my budget i,m thinking of .
a bit if clearing no problem.

5.5 rod ??

with the 78 mm stroke crank use the std length 5.394" rods with the stroker pistons, no barrel shims
with the A pistons you will need to use a barrel spacer about .193" thickness

[fredy66]

looking good bugnut
what Do you have  there

i have looked at cams
any body have any opinion
fk-8
ore one of the fk-40 seres cams

[bugnut68]

looking good bugnut
what Do you have  there

i have looked at cams
any body have any opinion
fk-8
ore one of the fk-40 seres cams

I basically copied the Hot VWs 1995 Cal-Look engine build, as well as Sarge's 2017 with minor changes...

I'm running a 78.4 DPR crank, stock reworked VW German rods, Engle 125 cam, 1.25 CB Performance rockers, Berg solid rocker shafts, 8.6:1 compression, Steve Tims Stage II heads (42x37.5mm valves), 1-5/8" exhaust with 2.5-inch Dynomax muffler, dual 45mm Dellorto carburetors, doghouse oil cooler, full flow oiling with filter, Scat 1.5 QT sump, 90.5 Mahle pistons/cylinders, 009 ignition (later want to try the new CB Performance Magnaspark unit!)

This is my first stroker build, and I gotta say, thanks to the machine work done by VW Paradise, it has gone together super smoothly... easier build than even my last 1776 or stock 1600 I built when in college.  Can't wait to fire it off and get 'er broken in!

[fredy66]

sounds fun man
keep us updated

[bugnut68]

sounds fun man
keep us updated

No problem there... I'm figuring I'll write a complete novel about my first impressions when I go for my first test drive.

[fredy66]

getting there

[bugnut68]

i,m so excited my case is going to the Macing chop inn to Weeks
cant Wait to start hammering some engine parts to getter
have a 1.4 rockers coming and a sump
this game is expensive 
but i Hope it be wort it when the summer Com's

I'm getting close... my engine is nearing completion.  Still need to dimple my head tin so I can get my intakes on, but the hardest work is pretty much done now.

I forgot all about thinking I was oh so close... now I'm facing  rebuilding with another case.  Oh, fortune, how you mock me, mm'kay? 

[fredy66]

I'm preying to the good of power that i want happen to me .

[bugnut68]

I'm preying to the good of power that i want happen to me .

If you didn't start with a 40 year old AE case that's been around the block a ton, odds are you're golden.   My issues have boiled down to simply aged equipment.  Oil pressure wasn't so much an issue after all but after stripping out oil pump studs and having the helicoils pull out, I figured out my case is pretty much just tired/wore out/done.

[fredy66]

yes i did killed a working dp 1300 to get the chase