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Erik, make sure you were looking at frankenrover not frankenstein or frankentoy. The one I built was a Land rover and was maroon. I only say that because of the CTS comment. Not really sure I know that abbreviation. And Alan, auto trannies are pretty much a requirement for any serious rock buggy etc...

the 740 tranny is ideal for the pinz, but I cant do anything else untill I either get a pinz bell housing to borrow for a bit, or get time to take my tranny out of the pinz. If I have to wait to remove my tranny it wont happen untill we get warmer days here so I can drive my topless mog and my motor...

If the truck had sat for an extended period of time, your pick up tube might have rusted and developed a pin hole at roughly half a tank. This would mean that the truck sat with half a tank of fuel. This is a minorly common issue with Unimogs.

Jake Are your injectors set perpendicular to the plenum air flow or at a 45 degree. If perpendicular this might explain the drop off past peak torque. Not trying to force you into a theory, just curious. And I agree paper is paper, not an engine. But like you said its nice to find out why certain th...

Jake

Are your injectors located farther down the intake manifolds closer to the valve openings like typical Multi port. Do you have any theories regarding the "loss of steam". Does your managment system have the ability to compensate if programed.

My Math is right, I just looked back and found your only using 2.5 bar. I assumed you were using typical multiport pressures. You might try going up to 55-65PSI as is more common on a multiport style system like yours. A 14-15 lb injector would be ideal with the higher pressures. Lower pressures und...

Jim,

Why are you using 30lb injectors when the multiport system should only call for 13-18lb injectors. Your efficiency should go up if you came down to the proper size. 30lb would be more appropriate if you were only running one injector per manifiold.

Just curious

The flinstone mobile is based off a dual symetrical torque tube chassis. With options like 4 and as much as 8 foot drive. And it's inherent stability is due to the low cg created by bias cut 22" stone wheels. Truely a design far ahead of it's time.

No apology required, I just wanted to make sure we understood each other. The only thing I was hopeing to gather from this post was to rule out anything anyone has already done. I just didnt want to reinvent the wheel if something was sitting out there. Seeing as how it was a ZF transmission, and ty...

Sadly once again my words have been twisted. I did not say that you will find an air cooled pinz motor being used else where. I didn't say in anyway that you can find any part of a pinz on any other vehicle. I said with more clarification, all the components you find on a pinz are not unique in that...

Don't get me wrong, I don't intend on driving at 80mph. I simply stated the numbers could support 80. As aposed to 65ish. And even then I will need more output than a stock engine to do it. Rest assured I know the issues I am facing. Pinz aren't as unique as you guys like to think. All the component...

I will be using a lock up torque converter. Not sure what the lock up RPM will be yet. But a brake switch/interlock is not required. I agree about the torque loss, but It tends to not be an issue. In rock crawling, the auto torque converter makes for a more drivable vehicle even with smaller crawl r...

Thats a common misconception. Of course HP cannot live without Torque and torque cannot live without HP. But they do exist in ratios. driving down the highway you are using primarily HP with low Torque numbers. While offroad you are using Torque with low HP numbers. Saying a component cannot handle ...

The engineers didnt have any HP in mind when they built the drive train, they had torque in mind. Torque break stuff, HP just makes stuff go fast (Generalized statement). Assuming you can acheive 150HP, it would still be far less load on the drive train than EI's crawler setup. Regardless, the power...

The 6 speed might not work simply because the bell housing is fixed to the casing. You cannot clock or replace the bell with another bell. This might not be a huge deal since I might end up with a bell adapter. Honestly it should act fairly descent with stock power. However im going to shoot for abo...