[Staowners] ALPINE engine power

[Mal Clark]

Alf posted off those top mounts to you today let me know when you recieve 
them, you will find the engine mounts will be the 30mm and the top mounts 
will be 7/8" almost sure of that, we had a cancelation for Echuca Nationals 
so Bill Henderson is booked in so we should have 5 Talbot Alpines and about 
12 Talbot sedans, along with about 33 other types of Sunbeams good luck Mal 
Clark.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alf Scotting" <acs3 at bigpond.com>
To: "Mal Clark" <shadow74 at bigpond.com>
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 10:53 PM
Subject: Re: [Staowners] ALPINE engine power


Hay Mal,Isn't this website bloody fabulous - I got an email from Rod Allen 
advising me against packing up the engine mounts too high as the dissy will 
foul on the bonnet - true, it did at 5mm.- I put 3 mm. under the engine 
mounts and I got about 6mm. clearance above the dissy. which brings me to 
believe the correct mount thickness is probably 34 mm. I emailed Graham 
Brooks tonight to get the correct thickness of engine and stabiliser 
rubbers - will let you know. He says that removing the fan belt has always 
been a problem.
Regards,Alf
---- Mal Clark <shadow74 at bigpond.com> wrote:
> Hi Vic,thanks for email,can you clear up one thing,Dyno man said it 
> produced 50 Horse Power at the wheels is that the same as Brake Horse 
> Power,?? Mal Clark
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: Vic & Rosalie Hughes
>   To: Staowners at sunbeamtalbot.info
>   Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 10:09 PM
>   Subject: Re: [Staowners] ALPINE engine power
>
>
>   Hi Mal,
>
>   Can't claim to be an expert but I reckon that 50 bhp at the rear wheels 
> @ 3000 rpm is probably not too bad.  The 80 BHP claimed in the manual 
> would be at the flywheel, and @ 4200 rpm - more rpm (up to the peak) = 
> more power.  Power loss through the transmission (gearbox and diff) 
> accounts for some of the difference, lower than peak revs accounts for 
> some more.
>
>   My Series III Alpine is rated at 82.5 gross, 75 net @ 5000 rpm at the 
> flywheel. It dyno'd 58 bhp @ 4000 (it too was running in)
>
>   Cheers, Vic
>     ----- Original Message ----- 
>     From: Mal Clark
>     To: Staowners at sunbeamtalbot.info
>     Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 9:41 PM
>     Subject: [Staowners] ALPINE engine power
>
>
>     Hi everyone,I have been without my computer for a few weeks, now up 
> and running ok, my Alpine is just about finished and driving and running 
> beautiful, highly recommend Jim Wilkinson's Power steering kit,dont think 
> he as yet come up with a left hand drive kit, it makes the Alpine driving 
> a dream so so good,and with the Toyota Celica 5 speed gearbox as well it 
> is superb, Today I had my alpine on the Dyno,I felt is wasn't quite 
> right,being a new engine I didn't want to damage it, as it turned out it 
> was running very rich so different jets in the carb and resetting the 
> timing,etc produced an extra 7 kilowatts of power,the question I 
> have,someone out there must know more than me on these power outputs, the 
> first run up to only 3000rpm (NEW ENGINE REBUILD) on the Dyno it produced 
> 30 kilowatts of power after the rejetting etc it produced 36.7 kilowatts . 
> if you multiply the kilowatts by 1.34 it gives you the horse power,so it 
> is producing 50 HP at 3000rpm at the back wheels, can someone tell me if 
> that is good or average, as I have worked the motor, quite a bit,as I said 
> it drives great, Manual states 80 BRAKE horse power for the Alpine, 
> regards Mal Clark.
>
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