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The engine of my daily 1300 did die. The axial bearings were lying in the sump and the cilinderblock and cranckshaft are damaged. Why buying another 1300 engine to rebuild when there's enough 1850/sprint engines in the shed. The main disadvantage of the 1300 was the engine. Using a bigger engine i could tow my caravan also with this car.
As it was running on LPG the new engine has to be also. The desired compression ratio will be 1:13 for maximum efficiency.
The plan is to rebore my old 300.000km 1850 lpg injected engine to 2 litre and use and 1850 head. The 1850 head has a smaller combustion chamber as the tr7 variant and this way there's no need to extreme skimming of the head. I used to skim 1850 heads under an angle to have the maximum effect but the max is 1:9 -1:10. Otherwise the valveseats are skimmed out of the head. The engineblock i did modify already many years ago so it saves time not to blueprint as it is already done. All rotating parts were also lightened and balanced already.
I'm going to use a tr7 single carburetor manifold. Long tubes for better lpg mixing and low rev torque. I'm not sure yet what carb to use, one hs6 or one hs8. This way it is easier maintainance and adjusting. Dual su's and lpg are very sensitive for out of balance.
The gearbox will be a single rail 1850/OD.
To be continued..
Jeroen
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