Original Technical Drawings

[wiggybum]

I've done some searching on this forum and Google and now I'm stumped.

Does anyone know where I could acquire copies of the original Dolomite Sprint engine drawings? Are they locked away in a vault in Germany or Gaydon?

I can go down the reverse engineering route, but there's no substitute for seeing the original design intent. Many thanks for answers in advance.

Tom

[tony g]

Good luck with your search, I'd be interested in finding out why the block was cast with the oil pump / oil filter / transfer housing the way it was. Seems like a waste of casting effort unless it was for a remote filter or cooler, but ive never seen it on a factory car? Saab soon got rid of it

Tony

[oldred]

I remember a thread but I don't think it was on here and it was to do with the original crankshaft blueprints. My have been on pistonheads. Do I remember the original poster saying they had others?

[wiggybum]

Good luck with your search, I'd be interested in finding out why the block was cast with the oil pump / oil filter / transfer housing the way it was. Seems like a waste of casting effort unless it was for a remote filter or cooler, but ive never seen it on a factory car? Saab soon got rid of it

Tony

And yet they thought it was a great idea to save about 2p worth of cast iron by putting holes around the main bearing webs to make it weak. And....to put the waterpump up nice and high so it runs dry when the radiator level drops an inch or so.

[wiggybum]

I wonder what happened to these:

http://www.theminiforum.co.uk/forums/to ... originals/

[dursley92]

Those old drawings really take you back to engineering drawing lessons at school and how it was all done in the "old days". Hope someone saved them.

Saw a Concorde film recently and there was a huge drawing office with dozens of guys all doing that stuff by hand. Imagine that is not the case with Airbus!

[wiggybum]

Well, I received an email today from Retro-Engineering Ltd, saying they do have these very drawings and they are being used by a pattern maker at the moment.

I'll keep my fingers crossed I can photograph them when they are done as these will come in handy for my aluminium Sprint block project. Watch this space.