hacker-pschorr

Hmm, might be easier to remove that way?

SharkSkin

Damn Carl, that's some nice work!

Ian928

Although CIS is rare on US 928s, a LOT of european sharks use this. I believe Carl could sell quite a few more kits if he sold them through a trusted vendor in Europe.

And regarding driveability, I thought throttle response on the CIS cars vere better than the later cars?

Also, with CIS you "always get home". My brother has been stuck a few times the last two years in his Range Rover because of a faulty Hall-sensor, but my shark just keeps going. They may run rough, but they run...

Carl Fausett

So far... so good. I have 3.5 hours and 200 miles on the new motor.
Took it in a nice big ircle on Saturday.... Fond du Lac to Madison to Milwaukee to Fond du Lac. All good.

Many variables on this motor that we are all watching... it has steel sleeves, forged pistons, Ishara-Johnson crank scraper AND the full windage tray system, modified WUR, modified fuel distributor, ARP head studs and fasteners, aluminum flywheel, 750 pound custom twin-disk clutch, all those new braided fuel lines, NO auxillary air valve, NO cold start injector, NO low-speed vacuum aux valve (I removed them all)... and a host of other mods I know I am forgetting. Oh yes, I'm running 10 pounds of boost at 6000 rpm at the present time.

Anyway - I know several of you want to hear about the crank scraper/windage tray success or failure... I'll keep you informed. When I got to Madison, I stopped to check all fluids and such, and I checked my oil catch-tank. It was bone dry... not a lick of oil in it. Is this a success for the crank scraper windage system? Maybe. Probably too early to say that.

I have not been racing yet so the windage tray system has not seen high lateral G's yet... and my piston-to-cylinder wall clearance is 1/2 of OEM spec because I used low-expansion forged pistons and we fitted them up tight to reduce blow-by on the supercharged engine. These are additional reasons I may have had a dry catch tank (I hope so - that was the plan).

We are planning to take The Great White Shark to Road America on May 8th... (just got the rocker panels into paint this afternoon). If the catch tank stays dry there... then I think we may be on to something.

Thaddeus

Awesome ride.

Nasty 928

That is like the Barry Bonds of Shark engines.

drnick

i like the supercharger brackets

MarkRobinson

Carl: any secrets to reveal about how you got the alum. parts so clean? Or was a lot of elbow(****)-grease used? Looks great!

Mark

MarkRobinson

(Ok, the above didn't come out right, but I guess it's close enough).

1981 Shark

That's an awesome looking piece of machinery! It looks like no detail was spared!

One difference - Carl will admit to his shark being "hopped up"...

Carl Fausett

Mark Robinson - which of the aluminum parts are you speaking of? I may be able to tell you...

Gretch

Very nice Carl.......

Is the new nipple epoxied on to the old one?

Carl Fausett

I wondered when somebody was going to catch that. The old nipple for the hose to the reservoir was so corroded that, by the time I got the corrosion off of it, it was so pock-marked I doubted the hose would seal at all. I found that a 1" threaded sleeve threaded onto that corroded nipple nicely, and a new 3/4" nipple into it. I used 420 degree JB-Weld epoxy to seal the threads, put it on the threads before I screwed and pushed it onto the 928 nipple. It was also nice dropping the size of that hose down to 3/4" - there is not reason for it to be as large as it was.

milwaukeeshark

Carl,

Are those later cam towers, or have you just deleted the locking plates?

whitefox

Why is the car masked off like that?