Recipe # 47
Harrison's Wild 1776
| 1. | Owner | Harrison Miller |
| 2. | Email Address | [email protected] |
| 3. | Vehicle Type | 1966 Type1 Street Car/ 1974 Type1 Bracket Racer |
| 4. | Displacement | 1776cc |
| 5. | Crankcase | Old 1974 AS41 that was perfect, but Align Bored .010 over just to be safe, Full Flowed, Cut for 90.5/ 92mm Cylinders |
| 6. | Crankshaft | Rimco Counterweighted 69mm (Balanced, 8 Dowelled, .010 under on rods) |
| 7. | Connecting Rods | Rimco Stock Rods, (rebuilt, HD Bolts, and Balanced) |
| 8. | Pistons&Cylinders | 90.5 Mahle, Forged, Graphite Coated, Balanced |
| 9. | Piston Rings | Cima |
| 10 | Camshaft | Web 109, Lift:.465, Duration @ .050: 260, Duration:287, Lift @ Valve:.514, 108* Lobe Centers |
| 11 | Cam gears | CB Helical Cut Aluminium Bolt on Gear |
| 12 | Cam followers | Old Web Cam Lifters (Repackaged Johnsons, (NLA)) |
| 13 | Pushrods | Berg 180,000 PSI Tensile Strength, Chromoly, soon to be replaced w/ Manton Dual Tapered Pushrods |
| 14 | Cylinder Heads | EMPI, (Early 044 style, Unwelded) Ported and Polished By Fred Simpson's Performance Technology to V-5 Specs, Custom 40x35.5 Manley Valves, 8mm stems, Custom P/T High Install Height Retainers (Chromoly) Custom 10* Single Groove keepers, Custom P/T Dual Springs (wound to Vintage Performance specs) Good to 8800 RPM, 48.5cc Chambers (polished) .015 spring shims, One Pair of 7 Known Pairs, Built by Fred Simpson, and a joint effort by Kurt and Ann Mezger of Vintage Performance |
| 15 | Rockers | VW 1.1 |
| 16 | Spark Plugs | NGK B8ES |
| 17 | Exhaust | Homebuilt 2 Inch mandrel bent SS tubing and raptor muffler, (dual carbon fiber Ducati mufflers coming soon!) Berg 1 1/2 inch Merged Header, and Stinger for the track, both stinger and muffler have ports for the NTK 5 Wire Oxygen Sensor |
| 18 | Compression Ratio | 8.7 CR 110 octane so far... but should run OK on 92 octane, MPG unknown with the new heads, old setup got a best of 32 MPG |
| 19 | Fuel System | Weber 44 IDF, Web Link, and other mods performed by Art at Air Cooled Engineering. |
| 20 | Fuel Pump | Facet 3.5 PSI |
| 21 | Oil Pump | Shadeck 30mm Plugged for Full flow by Rimco |
| 22 | Oil Sump | Berg: GB210A 3.5 qt and GB 212 Sump Magnet |
| 23 | Oil Cooler | 1974 Doghouse Oil Cooler, 100% OEM cooling tin, not one piece missing and a working thermostat |
| 24 | Ignition | Blue coil, MSD 6AL CDI, 2 Step revlimiter, step 1: 8000 RPM step 2: 3500 RPM for launch |
| 25 | Distributor | Bosch 009 or 031 (Porsche 912 distributor, fairly rare??) w/ good ol' Pertronix... :) |
| 26 | Flywheel | Rimco/VW Forged, 12.5 lbs, Balanced and 8 doweled |
| 27 | Pulley | Berg Equalizer, 6 1/4 lbs, Berg HD bolt and washers, (Balanced) |
| 28 | Clutch | Air Cooled Engineering: Copperhead disc, IT RULES! TRY ONE! |
| 29 | Pressure Plate | KEP/Berg: Stage 1 (1700 lbs) Balanced |
| 30 | Transmission | VW Type 1 1972 dual side cover case, Built by Rancho Performance Transaxles, (Super Street build), R&P 4.125, Stock Ratios, Super Diff, 10 tooth spider gears, welded 3rd and 4th, Steel Forks, HD Aluminium Sidecover, HD Throwout Shaft, ERCO Axles (Polished), Berg Intermediate Mount, and HD Bus Bellhousing mounts. |
| 31 | Wheels | Stock Steel VW |
| 32 | Tires | Front 145 15's, Rear 205 65 15's |
| 33 | Max. Horsepower | Unknown |
| 34 | Max. Torque | Unknown |
| 35 | 0-60mph Time | Unknown |
| 36 | 1/4 mile Time | 15.00 @ 88/89 mph in the 74 bracket racer, that weighs 1915 lbs and has stock gear ratios and 4.37 R&P w/ 26 inch tires (radials) |
| 37 | Engine Mileage | 20,000 miles or more? |
| 38 | Cost To Build | I quit counting a long time ago, but I would estimate that you would have to spend around 8 or 9k to duplicate this engine with all new parts. |
| 39 | Purpose | freeway cruiser, hot street, and weekend racer all in one so far. :) |
| 40 | Comments | I love this engine! it exceeded my wildest expectations! The 1/4 mile times I posted were made on the 3rd pass the engine has ever made. I haven't been able to get it back to the track to better that time, but I am confident it will do it. and that was in my racer that was heavier than my street car! It will run in the low 14's easy... It was a pretty mild engine until I put the awesome heads on it, and raised the CR, it is incredibly fast for a 1776 IMO... I know there are faster ones out there, but I am completely happy w/ this one... this was the first Hi-Po VW engine I ever built, it still runs! I had a lot of help from my good friend Art Thraen in the construction of this engine, and I think it even impressed him. Copy this combo! you wont regret it! it kicks ass! HM |
