Mykk's BMW V8 T-bucket, version 1.5:

[Mykk]

That is a beautiful engine. I admire your skills. I can barley do anything to an vintage chevy engine way above my pay grade.

I'm thankful there is no demand for these engines and there are so many of them produced, I pick them up for a couple hundred bucks and you see I don't tear into the rotating assembly. All the shiny new bits are Ebay & Amazon.

 

[Spanky]

I think we are witnessing an epic build thread here, folks! For me this ranks right up there with Choppinczech's roadster body build. One for the archives.

Thread 'A bit more progress'

May 31, 2015

Been working on getting the rear end in. Everything is just tacked up at this point.








Also been working on some fiberglass seat shells. These pics are of fitting the plugs. There's some finagling to do on the passenger side around the e-brake.

I'll mold these plugs and lay up the final shells at about 7mm thick.

As usual, a ton of work.

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[Mykk]

That really is quit the compliment, truly thank you.

 

[WebMistress]

I agree with @Spanky - Love watching this build coming together.
Way above my knowledgebase to be able to do this!

 

[RodStRace]

Mykk, I notice that you have the spring clip over ball joint at the throttle bodies. The inner arm connections look different.
Can the inners snap off easily to pivot out of the way to service the injector rails? I guess the whole linkage pivot might not allow the rails to lift up and out.

 

[Mykk]

Mykk, I notice that you have the spring clip over ball joint at the throttle bodies. The inner arm connections look different.
Can the inners snap off easily to pivot out of the way to service the injector rails? I guess the whole linkage pivot might not allow the rails to lift up and out.

You are correct. I even made/modified new rods this morning using old boat turnbuckles.



If & when I need to access the fuel rails I suppose I could unclip the rods from the throttles and remove the bellcrank pivot bolt then remove the whole thing.

 

[Indycars]

Are the holes in the bell crank for adjusting the ratios or just cosmetics?

 

[Mykk]

Are the holes in the bell crank for adjusting the ratios or just cosmetics?

It's a universal throttle bellcrank to adapt to whatever you're building so I'm sure the holes are just to open up options. Changing holes would absolutely effect the throw ratio and make the throttle open faster or slower or harder vs softer. I just chose the holes that gave me a straight throw to the throttles.

 

[RodStRace]

I was thinking that the spring clips would be better on the linkage end. Pop them off and swing the arm up for servicing, since the throttle end pivots in a vertical plane. They probably aren't a tight enough tolerance for ITBs and computer control, though.

It's these little changes and refinements that take a ton of thought, time and sourcing but make for a much better final product that most people don't even notice.