A 'Dreadnought' road racer
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- Опубликовано: 9 июл 2024
- In this, episode 150 of PowerTec 10, DV describe how he and his crew, Colin and Hugh built a ground effect 'tunnel' sedan racer. This 'tunnel' concept was seen on this car, a Ford Anglia, six years before a 'tunnel' car was seen at Indianapolis. Its success was measured by the fact that on faster corners it could out corner even the best of regular type race sedans by as much as 100%. If the rules allow and you want that dreads none of it's competition here is how it was done.
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I cannot believe you are on RUclips the other day I just happen to type your name in and I was blown away to see you had videos. I have been reading your article since I was a kid just about every shoot out of every intake, camshaft piston, head different combinations your small block, Chevy book out a budget to Chad motors. You are one of my favorite people in the entire world. I’ve always talked about you and I never thought to look on RUclips. It is so awesome to see you are still at it you are a true legend to any engine builder, I will be watching every single one of your videos so great to see you
I had exactly the same shock when I looked a few years ago. Been reading Mr Vizard's articles as long as I can remember, since at least early 1970's
@@1crazypj i was born in 70. In 82 my 5year senior neighbor bought a clapped out 68 Camaro. He gave me all his mags when he was done with them probably still at my mom’s house. Great times. We built his first engine. Test drives on milk crates for seat 4spd rick crusher. Lol. Blew motor in 1 week. 😂😂😂
I was pleasantly surprised to find DV on RUclips also! Absolutely LOVE all of his engine and carb and intake books. 👌
What a great memory I remember doing exactly the same thing sitting on a milkbox and taking it for a spin@@DisgustedGenXr😊
@@kazmierzglinny6728 my nickname at the time was Felipé. Flipping the block over and back putting in pistons and rod boltz. 😂😂😂. Felipé…. Felipé. Of all the stuff I don’t remember that stuff fells like yesterday. I haven’t built anything in a few years. He is still messin with something as much as he can. I live in Ft Myers, FL. He is in Jupiter, FL. I went over a couple years ago. Some guy wanted a bunch of upgrades and he called me to go wrench.
I get there…. Cherry 69’ Camaro 🤗. Guy wanted G machine. Big brakes, rear end, suspension etc. what a blast from the past. Some things never change. Wrenching with a bud is definitely one of them. A mental time machine. Shaved 40 years iff our lives for that weekend. Puffin and goofing. Car came out amazing. Didn’t want to give it back.
He got a great deal on a 69 Chevelle He has been poking around.
He captains a boat for a mega buck dude ( always been a badass fusherman, we all are). He can catch an 800 lb Blue Marlin in a mud-puddle. Lol. Very talented. Guy will call “ have the boat in Cozumel, MX in 2 weeks. Ill be bringing clients every weekend for a month…. South America, Bahamas…….
We will get some days lined up soon though. Cannot wait.
Glad you have been on a crate. A true trooper. Still remember laughing our asses iff doing donuts holding on to….🤔. Well nothing😂😂😂😂
Good series thankyou Dave. I spent many happy years watching the George Polley (306) vs Barry Lee (351) hot rod battles at Aldershot and Wimbledon stadia. They were often both well-ahead of the field, swapping lead every half lap, pushing each other to their absolute limits. It was thrilling racing, with no time to take a sip of tea, or roll a cigarette; just pure adrenaline inches from disaster on the posts and wires. With Tongham and Wimbledon gone, I don't think I'll ever see the like again.
I also knew Barry Lee. He sure was a live wire and a great driver. Raced against him on several occasions.
I built my first car in 1979 after buying David's '' How to modify your mini '' book .
Let me throw something else in here. I was seven(7) seconds faster than the guy that held the 1300 cc record!
David.
Keep it up. I've followed your theories and accomplishments for decades. I have a number of your books & have applied what learned in the nineties.
You teach a master class & graduate studies in power & speed...hats off!
I've begun to notice that I really enjoy this format of you sitting in front of a darkened background. It's as if you are sitting across a table from me in a private lesson or bench racing session. I catch myself leaning foreward in my chair and listening intently. Great stuff as always. Many thanks.
More stories like this please
My friend and myself built our 2 cars in South Africa....mine was a 125 twin cam Fiat and his was the Anglia. The Fiat was far easier to make it run fast, a 1" front and 2 1/2" rear lowering, some decent shocks and sintered brakes sorted the suspension, while a stage 3 Scorpion conversion with a home built water injection system took care of the power.
The Anglia....we threw rods on 2 motors. Then got a 1600 cross flow and a meisener ohc conversion with 2 side draughts. A Cortina 2L gearbox was fitted with diff and suspension and we got it basically sorted. Untill about 100mph and the car got unstable. So we taped plastic 1" ribbons every 4" square on the car and took pics on the road. The tape was red or yellow every 2 rows so we could see whats up. Drove next to the Anglia at 50, 80 and 90 mph taking pics from front, sides and rear of the tape. We found out the rear was walking because of the uplift at the "Z" window.
Only solution, was to cut a 2ft wide scoop in the floor pan and duct the underbody air to the back window, as you did with your tunnel effect. We were young engineers in our first and second years with a love for cars and going fast. Crude and rudimentary but we figured how to make our own "wind tunnel" on the road.
Later on (South Africa did not have easy access to overseas engineering via magazines etc) we did find your escapades and lapped it up. CCC were available in book stores intermittently but we would check every day on our way back from class if the stores had them. Maybe only got 3-4 a year so series were nigh impossible to follow.
Glad to see the old names pop up in memory, me being almost 70 now
Thanks for the great info and stories, its much appreciated.
And, David, that yellow Anglia was an icon.....even so far away.....
Great video I always wanted to see more suspension videos. Thank you David!
I love DV amount of information
One thing that I first noticed on my road rally Imp after I had to repair and strengthen it as a result of a very rough 'white' road was that stiffening the monocoque shell really made the car handle. On the first event after I had to run a cooking 875cc sport engine against a host of rally Escorts, 1293cc Minis and 3 998cc Imps, starting at 29 out of 43 starters. From the start of the event we had a cracked exhaust manifold that was reducing power so that it wouldn't pull top gear and we left it in 3rd and redlined the standard motor at 8,000rpm (or until the points bounced!) Our result was in top 10 o/a, whilst the list of 998 Imps were all in the 20's. The only problem I had was that the front was sticking so well that it showed up the deficiencies of the rear suspension.
I have always since then developed my cars with the first focus on having a truly stiff platform for the suspension to work from, then developing the suspension and brakes and lastly the engine and gearbox. My current aircooled Beetle has developed chassis, suspension and brakes with a standard S engine to such a point that I can drive it almost everywhere with a brick on the throttle, next will be a 2175cc engine. As an aside, developing a car this way also means that you start cheap and eventually get to the expensive engine bit rather than the other way around, where you soon run out of money after building a balls out engine so that its power can't be used effectively because there is no money for the important bits left.
I was reading Davids' book on the Ford 2 liter, in the 1980s. Good motor, that one. Like the way you can break a timing belt, and just get a new one.
He looks pretty good, considering he's older than me.
Showing my age now, I remember the build up articles for this Anglia back in the day in Cars and Car Conversions. Nice one David
I remember an article on building the Ford Anglia from I think the English "Hot Car" magazine in the late 1960s.I remember the fabricated flares from flat sheets of steel and the air outlet behind the rear window. It seemed quite radical at the time.
Play wealth of information knowledge and the personalization of your stories, simply fantastic thank you for sharing!
Clever wording and knowledge of history. Implying the competition are all "per-Dreadnought"! Luckily not left hand drive.
CCC days!
I had a 1961 Anglia I sold and the car got a 13B rotary engine and was a street racer.
It's easier to ride a slow bike fast than a fast bike slow.
Too much power is often a liability on tight twisty or wet tracks.
In my experience, learning to ride a lower power (50~90bhp) motorcycle 'fast' makes a much better, smoother, faster car driver
Slow is smooth. Smooth is fast.
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I remember that mini, as CCC cover ❤
I'm 6:30 in and I remember an anglia being moded again Triple C 😂😂😂😂 with a tube to duct to fill the area behind the rear window, 🤔 wonder if it's this one kinda think it is ❤
Thank you Sir. Thank you
Hi David, I build the engine for the Tiger Sports 2000 you pictured. Belongs to Chris Snowdon.
I sure would like to build a Can Am replica with a Cadillac Northstar Fwd trans in the rear someday. A lot of learning but hopefully using Performance Trends will help me. I just need to where to start.
Learn how to weld and cut metal, if you can do that you can put a motor in anything, just have the confidence in yourself. Don't think I've never done this I can't do it, think I got a welder, torch and grinder I'll make the sob fit
Excellent video D.V.! It would be very intresting if you would like to make a video, to hear your thoughts of tires. Tire pressure theorys, temperatures, sidewall movement and thread movement. For road circuit racing.
Thanks!
Im not sure the words.
'good chassis' and 'Ford Anglia' have ever been uttered in the same sentence previously...
Anglias against the world, yea. I race a pretty potent Cortina MK1 and was put in my place quite convincingly by a well prepaired Anglia at the Zolder racetrack last year. 🥺
DV - your spectacular run up the hill?
Supermarine Spitfires and Mosquitoes
You would have been a supreme Royal Aviator:)
So will you be building a suspension for the Mustang from scratch to get full advantage or just tweak the stock stuff as best as possible? 3g is outstanding. Most stockish stuff looses it at 1.5g.
Not just power to weight ratio but better traction and barriers 😅
Can do it all with QA1 suspensions now.
Never quit criticizing ,ones own critical thinking!! Where new Ideas come from...
when are you going to do reviews and videos on aftermarket efi... there expensive,, there out there and most are junk, what can i use.
I'd love to hear David's take on it. You might check out a good comparison video done by Nick's Garage. It's the ONLY real apples to apples, truely objective comparison I've ever seen. I'd recommend this video to David himself
nice
Can I pick your brains! I've got this R170 2.3L supercharged I bought, very twitchy and slightly over steering for my liking! especially on the Breaking the back end wants to overtake the front, I thought about putting some wheel spaces on the front and probably on the back but thinner I can get them in 6, 8, and 10 mm thickness, I was thinking 10mm on the front and 6mm on the back. What's your feeling on spaces? Can I achieve more understeer by this method? also I think the anti-roll bar front needs to be stiffer I don't think I can get stiffer bushings for it? In the UK. so I was thinking maybe welding a thin piece of 20 thou gauge pipe where the bushing's are! and making it tighter.and maybe adding bit of piping up to the connection to the wishbone, to stop that dive I'm getting in hard cornering, probably leave the back. I don't want to have it stiff Springs it's quite stiff as it is I like a comfortable ride just better cornering! maybe changing the shocks not sure what to go with gas shocks or would it make any difference to the standards? Thanks enjoying your little clips you do very educational
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Please, please, more stories.👍👍
Hi Mr Vizard, can you tell me what book I can purchase that explains your 128 cam formula would love to pick the right cam the first time thanks in advance. Steve
Great and usefull story Mr. Vizard. Thank you for that. I have to ask, was this Colin Cambell you mentioned in the video or someone another person?
No - Incredible crew chief Colin Ashdown-Pogmore.
Mr Virard what is line honing a motor in block prepping in block decking. I need help trying to understand that I am having my motor blueprinted
Line honing is making all the crankshaft main journals that hold the crank in the block perfectly straight and concentric.
Decking is machining the block's head surface perfectly flat and square in all 3 planes with the crankshaft.
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Thank you 👍
Its quite common for FWD cars in the WET to get FTD at Hillclimbs in UK....atleast 20 years ago this was the case.
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Let me throw something else in here. I was seven(7) seconds faster than the guy that held the 1300 cc record!
@@DavidVizard the problem with going fast in a hillclimb and setting a new class record makes it harder to score maximum points at that Venue next time.
David cosworth were building anglia engines weren't they how did you get on with yhem on track and off