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    Low Oil Pressure fix

    I only use 1725 motor oil pumps and I have made my own mesh screen (considerably coarser mesh than the factory ones). I have been running twin 42 Weber DOCEs... but in the search for more HP I am currently building up a supercharged engine.
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    Low Oil Pressure fix

    Been a while since I was on this forum last..but for a number of years I was dogged by running bearings in my Alpine powered 1960 Buckler race car. I have run both 1725 and 1600 cc Alpine engines consistently running Big End bearings in them. To fix the problem I have used an Accusump, new oil...
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    Supercharging

    Thanks for your help guys. Michael, I am in in Sydney in a few weeks for a couple of days .. so any information you have on the guy who runs the NSW based iron head Alpine, running in Historics .. I would be very grateful for. At this stage I am looking at running an SC12 (Toyota MR2) or the...
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    Supercharging

    Anyone supercharged an Alpine motor.. I race a 1600cc Alpine motor in a Buckler sports car (pre 1960).. On tight tracks the car is a podium finisher most times.. but on tracks with longer straights I miss out to larger capacity cars.. My winter project is to build up a supercharged (Rootes type...
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    Crankshaft drilling

    A fix for big end failure I race a very successful ( front runner) Alpine motored race car in NZ. I had on going bearing failure problems on both 1725 and 1600cc engines.... Inhad tried the normal fixes...drilled the centre main gallery, upped the oil pump output and relief valve pressure...
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    Rods for the 1592cc motor

    I had a thought regarding my question on what was the likely cause for the failure of BEs 2 and 3 in my 1592cc motor with Chevy I6 rods..given that the centre main bearing/journal (which feeds them) looks fine + the motor had good systemic oil pressure at the time of failure. Could it be that...
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    Rods for the 1592cc motor

    No it's fabricated out of sheet alloy
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    Rods for the 1592cc motor

    Thanks for your comments so far ..I have attached a couple of photos, (as requested by Steve). Regards Peter W
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    Rods for the 1592cc motor

    1592 motor with I6 rods Very interested in this thread. I run a 1959 Buckler Mk17 with 1592cc Sunbeam Alpine running gear, out hear in New Zealand.. I just converted the motor to Chev I6 rods and bored it out for Holden 161 ci (Australian in line 6) pistons or 85.7mm.. May have been a bit...
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