Kevin said:

     >Max undertook a complete rebuild of the engine, using a bottom end
     >fully balanced by MacDonald Race Engineering and incorporating a
     >heavy duty Melling oil pump. The cylinder heads were ported and
     >polished by Max, fitted with big valves (40 mm inlet and 35.5 mm
     >exhaust) and match-ported to the inlet manifolds. To pep up the
     >performance still further an Eagle 120 cam was dropped into the case
     >and this operates the valvegear via Type 4 solid tappets (in place of
     >the standard hydraulic tappets), chrome moly pushrods and bolt-up
     >rocker shafts. The engine is topped off with a pair of Dellorto 45
     >DRLA twin-choke carbs, a Bosch 009 centrifugal advance distributor
     >and a Bosch blue coil.

     Thanks, Kevin, this is very timely and sounds great. It is classic
     Hoover free HP technique, plus a little hot rodding. You can get a
     decent HP boost, without increasing displacement with new pistons,
     cylinders and a crank. On the other hand, if you do this stuff,
     AND increase displacement....

     Ahnendorp, incidently, said that his exhaust would not work on a
     syncro which makes me feel (a) sad, and (b) glad that he knows
     syncros.

     125 HP! that little Karmen Ghia must not know what hit it!

     Tom F.
     90 Syncro Westie
     87 Syncro GL
     90 Audi 200 TQW IA Stage I