M20 - dry-sumped, ITB's .... in a Commodore?!

[SkiFree]

Just saw this on SpeedHunters... thought it looked like an M20 and sure enough!

http://www.speedhunters.com/2012/08/race_bred_commodore/

[Farbin Kaiber]

Just read that and came to up it. I got beat. It's pretty insane, but they guys from that part of the world are known for being a bit nutty.

[Holland]

I'm curious about oiling with the engine at that angle.

[frankenbeemer]

You got me. I was expecting a Holden.

[slammin.e28]

All that work....all that work for an engine with a timing belt.....and there's obviously room for something better.

[MC Hammered]

Of course the builder is from Finland... where else do the craziest build come from?

[worangejuice]

so how do we makes with the dry-sump? I was always like all the VW guys converted to dry sumpp and even have modified oil pans. Why cant we?

[Mr_Tripp]

*Off topic question*

All that work....all that work for an engine with a timing belt.....and there's obviously room for something better.

With all the modding geniuses why hasn't someone converted the belt to a chain or something stronger than rubber cause that sounds cheaper than a full motor swap. Or am i speaking from la-la land and what im saying is way too difficult?

[nrubenstein]

With all the modding geniuses why hasn't someone converted the belt to a chain or something stronger than rubber cause that sounds cheaper than a full motor swap. Or am i speaking from la-la land and what im saying is way too difficult?

Well, belts are smoother than chains. If you expect to do lots of maintenance/other work, a belt is no deterrent.

[slammin.e28]

With all the modding geniuses why hasn't someone converted the belt to a chain or something stronger than rubber cause that sounds cheaper than a full motor swap. Or am i speaking from la-la land and what im saying is way too difficult?

That's called an M30.

[slammin.e28]

Well, belts are smoother than chains. If you expect to do lots of maintenance/other work, a belt is no deterrent.

I just hate that feeling in the back of my head that A) the belt breaking will grenade the engine, B) on my way to buy the belt it will grenade, C) I fuck something up dicking around changing the belt, D) I'm not going to find time to change the belt and it will grenade the engine.

[Mr_Tripp]

That's called an M30.

cause that sounds cheaper than a full motor swap.

[slammin.e28]

That Commode was swapped to an M20 anyways.

[Jon325i]

That dry sump set up looks sweet, bet it cost some bucks too. One can really drop a motor down to lower CG with that configuration.

Jon

[canakami]

Dem headers