Mick's 70 Lowlight

So I managed to do jack shit on the bus today, well no physical work at any rate. I did do a fair bit of 'research' which loosely translated means that I spent half of the day googling shit on the internet. As a result of this I've come to the decision that I'm going to pull the engine down, put the cam in and do some work on the heads. I toyed with the idea of just buying some heads already done, after all those CB Panchito heads look pretty good, but I think that they may be a little too big for a 1600.

Buying heads and moving to a larger capacity is the easy option, the blower kits were always about making more power with the stock 1600, so I figure if I'm going to offer a custom cam I might as well see what I can do with stock valve sizes and stock ported heads. It fits in with the progression of mods that I've performed so far. I can always get another cam and build another motor.

Another part of the decision is that with everything else that I have going on (developing the EFI system and a new blower kit), building another motor would be at the very least a few months down the track and I am keen to get the new cam tested out. Plus even if I did manage to put the motor together relatively quickly, which is kind of unlikely. Having just installed a motor in the bus I doubt that I would be very keen to remove it and swap it out again.

So it looks like the bus will not be back together as quickly as I would like, as I'm adding in some extra time to pull the engine down. But it will allow me to spend the time to blueprint the engine and hopefully push the boundaries of what a 1600 can produce a little further. I might even employ a few tricks that I've put into the LSR engine to test them out.

Watch this space...