Drilled Crank Thoughts...
I did a quick search, as I recalled there was a page on how Mark blew up several motors during development of his car, but thought he had the drilled crank before the drysump, if so, would not have ever likely run without a drilled crank after the drysump.
I dont have the dyno run on this computer, but I posted it on the stroker engine thread. Ill see if i can drum it up.
Thanks
mk
How about it, you post your engine mods and dyno curves here and I'll try to model them with EAP?
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Edit: With an undrilled crank.
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That was just two years ago.
In Porsche race engines Ti rods are replaced at 40 hours because of the stress of RACING. P O R S C H E beats up on its race engines.
I know you are racing, Mark, but the car and engine is capable of more and this is not conjecture but rather history. Don't blame me.
If you shifted at 7200rpm, I would be running all over you! You know why? HP curve shape and breadth. 4500rpm to 6500rpm gives me the highest ave HP possible.( HP-seconds maximized) Any higher or lower and you LOSE!!
But, if you just like to beat up your equipment like many of my competitors that do lose engines after a season or two ,or less, then knock yourself out. (I count on the misread of most of my competitors HP curves to win races with a lesser car!)
I have one comment. 1:37.5 at Laguna seca. 1:37.8 with a stock engine with a set of headers. Still think Im not driving the snot out of it?
Watch the last race video, then comment!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYbFeIai2Ng
mk
Last edited by Kevin Johnson; Jun 26, 2009 at 11:54 AM.
I was trying to push Ford to do just a bit more development on the Coyote 5.0 to kick Toyota's butt (UR BMEP is a tad higher). Coyote (NA) puts out ~400hp and ~400ftlb of torque.
I estimate they are still losing about 5% to windage/pumping because of the asymmetric head drain pattern and resulting pumping patterns. Toyota (brilliantly) truncated the pattern and used a block design closer to that of the GT dry sump. Little things can mean a lot.
First, whatever air there is in the oil should stay evenly distributed in the oil. Removing anything that causes separation of oil and air in the oil passages helps.
Second, whatever air there is in the oil should be somehow separated in the wet sump/pan. Any mechanism that separates air and oil before the oil pickup in the pan helps.
Third, anything that prevents air mixing in the oil in the first place helps.
Is this basically it? Or have I misunderstood something here?
In the philosophy of mathematics and logic there are prime concepts that are appealed to on an intuitive level, i.e. group assention. Negation subsumes itself but is a prime concept. Later we learn that to assume both the postive assertion and negation leads to anything whatsoever. Life is imperfect or at least human understanding of it is.
Now, concrete example for engines. Reducing a passage size will tend to bring dissolved gases out of solution because of the pressure drop. This reduction is often a requirement in an engine. I believe Porsche also uses this concept to help deaerate oil in its modern engines. I don't have time at the moment to track down the (presumed) patent. Ideally the oil would not have air in it in the first place. But it does. First and third precepts doing the Tango.
Multiple drillings create areas of turbulence in the galleys. This causes localized pressure drops where air can coalesce. One way to help reduce this is to create indexed plugs that will fill and close off blind channels and smooth passages. This would be very expensive because of the labor involved.
Ford sponsored windage research at MIT on the Porsche designed 2.5 V6 back in 2003-2004. At the same time, engineers at Ford were studying the transport of air in the oil (for the same engine, I believe). Both published papers for the same SAE conference. Interesting to read both and correlate.
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Edit: With an undrilled crank.
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That was just two years ago.
In Porsche race engines Ti rods are replaced at 40 hours because of the stress of RACING. P O R S C H E beats up on its race engines.
I know you are racing, Mark, but the car and engine is capable of more and this is not conjecture but rather history. Don't blame me.
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Right now, as someone that knows the performance of this chassis pretty well, a stock chassis is not well mated to much more hp and be safe. With some minor mods to suspension, it could be.
It is interesting that the extra displacement only gave a little over 50hp. just the displacement gain alone should have provided 80 more hp based on percentage increases.
5 liter making 420rwhp? what was done to it.
Dennis' motor made 375rwhp with the mods talked about here, but I guess with a custom intake, and other big changes anything is possible. thats big HP out of a 5 liter. And i totally agree, it would have to be shifted at some high rpms to make that kind of power with optimized flow.
Now, getting back to your original statement. this would not be a porsche designed engine either.
Those engine dont have oiling issues and are shifted up to 9000rpm without issues. (i.e. GT3cup)~~~~~~
Edit: With an undrilled crank.
~~~~~~
That was just two years ago.
In Porsche race engines Ti rods are replaced at 40 hours because of the stress of RACING. P O R S C H E beats up on its race engines.
I know you are racing, Mark, but the car and engine is capable of more and this is not conjecture but rather history. Don't blame me.
I did a quick search, as I recalled there was a page on how Mark blew up several motors during development of his car, but thought he had the drilled crank before the drysump, if so, would not have ever likely run without a drilled crank after the drysump.
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5 liter making 420rwhp? what was done to it.
Dennis' motor made 375rwhp with the mods talked about here, but I guess with a custom intake, and other big changes anything is possible. thats big HP out of a 5 liter. And i totally agree, it would have to be shifted at some high rpms to make that kind of power with optimized flow.
Now, getting back to your original statement. this would not be a porsche designed engine either.
Those engine dont have oiling issues and are shifted up to 9000rpm without issues. (i.e. GT3cup)I don't think this debate will ever end because people forget what disagrees with their premises.
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Rob said the engine could have been built for 500hp but it would not last. Rob is a pretty sharp guy.


