If I heard that sound, before I saw the car, and then saw the car I would be extremely confused. Im sure that's an added bonus of what you do. Keep on pluggin' away Jimbo!
The algorithm presented me with your channel a few months ago, and I can’t get enough of it. It’s scary to know how well the algorithm understands my interests.
I'm going to suggest it again cut the center out of the carburetor spacer and it will make the carburetor bigger I'll guarantee a horsepower increase and speed
@@frigglebiscuit7484 some of them can be really overbearing. Like I get why it's so common and folks wanna preach, but damn I wanna see something different occasionally. Hence my presence here 😂
An old hot rod trick for infinitely adjusting the same carburetor jet is by drilling out the hole to the desired size but if you go too big you can just solder it closed and redrill it as many times as you need. 👍
That's what I did tuning my bicycle. Kept drilling it out one size at a time then solder and drill the last size down when the spark plug appeared rich.
@@robotcantina8957can you register Side By Side UTVs? Some states will give you a plate for something like a Kei Truck, Golf cart, a Side by side, a Mahindra Roxor and they are just limited to roads that aren't highways and it seems like you mostly just drive little B roads near you in Kansas. That's how Tennessee does it, I have no idea about Kansas, I would think that with the prevalence of farms those types of vehicles could be used that way with limited road use.
I genuinely cannot wait until that "little" engine becomes a fire breathing high strung motor. Once it's going good, I propose a robot cantina road trip!
Ahh...that beginning french music. Takes me back to when I was in Paris. So different back then when I was in the circus. I could never get over that exhilarating rush when they shot me from the cannon. Ahhh...good times...
A cheap but very effective EMI attenuator for small engines is a common stainless steel braided plumbing hose like what is used under sinks. Just use a size that the stock spark plug wires will fit through and cut it to length and ground the braided SS jacket to the block. It won't take all of the noise out but it will knock it down considerably.
Sounds expensive. I was thinking kitchen foil on the plug wires. Also make sure there's a resistor in the ignition line, either resistive wire or a resistive spark plug.
That ReKnow is excellent! Just a little secret that we used back in the day of racing Sears riding lawn mowers. If you weld a 1.5 to 2.0 inch adapter to the exit of a straight pipe and then a short radius 90 deg elbow aimed directly toward the ground it will sound about twenty percent quieter to passersby with almost no back pressure. Some of the sound waves reflect off the heel of the elbow and cancels the emerging sound waves and the ground absorbs and deflects some of the rest. Still loud but very cheap and less offensive to none car-person's ears.
Number 30 viewer here. Boy that Renault brings back memories. When I was a kid we had one of these, alongside a 67 Cadillac Sedan DeVille, a 68 Javelin SST, and a $25 1965 Impala SS 327 that my dad bought for $25 from a neighbor. Remember this was 1975 in Fort Lauderdale. Anyway, my dad would leave for work in this car, even the same color, and as a two-year-old I would make Putt-Putt noises. Well the car ended up getting the nickname Putt-Putt. Just seeing this car in that color in that condition, brought me back the one of the best times in my life. Thank you😁💯
My son-in-law had a carb on a 670 get gummed up with old fuel. Rather than rebuild it, he jury-rigged an old carb set up from an old 900cc motorcycle. WOW, did it bring that engine to life !
To all the people who heard “I can drive a manual without a clutch” you can, he’s right. But it will absolutely wear out the synchronizer rings inside the transmission if you’re not great at timing out when the engine and trans will match speeds. Clutch changes aren’t easy, but they’re way easier than taking the trans apart to change the synchros.
On a YT short comment, I managed to find like 4 or 5 people who claim that they do this on their 5 speeds all the time, and insinuated that I'm a noob for saying it's difficult. Chances of that being 0% aside, you definitely should not do this unless you have a particularly good reason to. Not only will you obliterate your synchros, your grampa style driving of repeatedly dumping 1000rpms in the middle of the road isn't fun for people behind you.
The secret to changing manual gears is matching the rpms of the input shaft to the speed of the desired gear. When you have a functional clutch, this is achieved by allowing the shaft to idle and letting devices known by a variety of names, within the transmission, synchronise the speed before allowing the gears to connect. (Look up synchromesh, synchroniser ring, dog clutch, cone clutch for explanation of how this works). Without a working clutch, it’s pretty easy to learn the rpms for a given road speed and match them up manually, leading to smooth changes, even when pushing on. The difficulty here is, with the cvt in the picture, you can’t directly control the input shaft rpm by altering the engine rpm. The cvt keeps adjusting the gear ratio constantly, trying to maximise efficiency and, while in neutral, trying to change manual ratio, there’s no load on the cvt and it’s trying to create one. The only time the cvt expects to have no load is when idling with a stationary output. With a rev on, or with rolling output, or both, it tries to get the best efficiency by adjusting the gearing, so you end up bashing the manual gears in, hoping for the best. That’s why it’s so slow and crunchy, when he’s doing that.
If only I had the money to sponsor it, I'd like to see this guy's level of detail in everything done on a project with a salvaged sport-bike engine. (Since it's not about economy.)
Top spec 1300 Renault 10 european spec had 52hp and 17,9s (0-100kph). Renault did miracles with these 1289 engines... some say they had more real power than advertised... Would be really interesting to see this 1/2 size engine doing at least 0-60mph or 0-100kph in double of the time... good luck with your project!
Jimbo, your work on this project is an inspiration to long-term R10 and R8 owners and drivers. This is especially true for those wanting to keep their cars mobile during the sourcing of hard to find parts. GrantOakes mentions the proof below, that two dozen or so clones may be in the works. Just in case one of those conversions is permanent, and the old engines no longer desired, anyone having one to let go please consider sending me a pm. Oh, and for anyone still wondering about the use of the cvt along with the four-speed gearbox, these is no doubt that that combo is miles ahead of the original three-speed servo automatic ("mystery box") many R10's came with. Cheers!
Thanks for that rear view mirror tease, and as I've said before, you aren't a bad looking dude and your channel isn't controversial, so I think your channel would be better with you on screen more. Also, an underbody panel would be aero without messing up the appearance, that should be a win-win. Thank you for the excellent content, as usual.
I've seen some stuff about mufflers and for a performance muffler you want to expand the room for the exhaust to expand. So if you have a muffler that opens up to large chamber and ideally necks down to the size you need that's perfect for performance. Back pressure is just bad Information but a little isn't gonna be end of the world so if it's just a straight pipe exiting the muffler and it's not necked or flush with the body that's okay as long as there's room for the exhaust to expand and lose some pressure before it has to exit that's okay
I said it on the 212 and I'll say it here too, a low restriction way to muffle sound is to simply put a turn in the pipe. A U bend will scramble up some of the sound waves and quiet it a lot more than you'd think but even a simple turn down toward the road after the muffler will effectively muffle sounds by using the ground to absorb some frequencies. I have a high revving high output 1800CC 4 cylinder car that's notorious for being very loud with essentially a straight through exhaust and it's not loud at all because the muffler I chose is a glass pack with a big U bend inside of it. All the flow, very little of the noise. For you, I think a 90 to the driver side, some pipe, then a 90 out the back would do nicely and give you AMPLE room to mount all the muffler you need and then some along the pipe. Sometimes simply stepping the diameter up and down can kill sounds too.
Fun. 😁 Don’t worry about haters. I spend a lot of time arguing both sides of a conversation(and winning) just to show my friends that there is no right or wrong, just what fits you or the situation. Enjoying this series.
What a ridiculous and fun way to waste some time and have some fun doing it. I love this idea and your use of a cvt is smart easy and cheap. That's a win, win, win in my book.
I've been a "car guy" since the mid 19 and 60s, and I love seeing what other car guys are doing. The only thing better than car guys, are CRAZY car guys, and you fill the bill perfectly. This series is FREAKIN' AMAZIN', chock full of car insanity. I am currently planning the build of a Velorex 16-350 clone, using a Honda motorcycle for power. Due to the ridiculous complexity and cost of new cars, I am hoping/planning that the Velorex clone will be my daily driver and the last car I will ever own. You'll have to look up Velorex 16/350 ... they are wonderful little cars.
@@TheStuartstardust Somebody took down my post. It's just a tube steel frame. I'm putting in the entire front end from about a 1968 VW bug with disc brakes and the engine will be an old Honda 500 V twin.
JIM! Get one of those old electric Citicars in disrepair and put a two-stroke in it! They don't rust all that bad because of a plastic shell and aluminum frame, so you can usually find them in decent quality, if you find one at all.
Never fear the trolls you have some of the best content and among my personal favorite channels that exist on RU-vid. I think your content is very professional and great quality. Keep on keeping on 😎
Love the deep dive into the CVT and transmission numbers. This is why I love your channel: you take it step by step and change only 1 or 2 things at a time so we can follow along with the differences they make. Keep it up, Jim!
Thanks Jimbo for another cool video. I can appreciate the amount of time you put into these videos, I'm guesing about a 50:1 ratio? Perceived exhaust sound is (of course) very hard to quantify on a video but, that's the best that can be accomplished with a RU-vid video. In trying to quiet down an air cooled engine over the years, it's a difficult task to be sure. Without a water jacket, the engine block rings with every detonation, not to mention the sound of all the reciprocating parts thrashing around inside the engine. One of the best ways to quiet the engine is to limit engine speed to basically a fast idle but, of course, there goes your power. Good idea to state which mods you will do and not do at the outset, thereby (hopefully) reducing the flood of well meaning modification suggestions.
I found on my 2000 Kawasaki ZR-7 (air/oil cooled 750), that when I fitted a 'Fuel' brand end can (had a Dynojet stage one kit in carbs), then when I had baffles removed yeah, she howled, but, when I had the baffles in, she had a deeper note, BUT, also 'Felt' smoother, more torque low down and just a generally nice ride... Underrated bikes them ZR-7s! 🤔😏 😎🇬🇧
I really like your Renault, happy to see that you made it run again with a lawnmower engine since the original engine was beyond repair. Overhere were I live in the Netherlands these Renaults have become rare as well but the engines are not. You would wonder why? We have a car manufacturer called: Daf, they are known for their trucks and busses but in the old days they also made passenger cars and bought the engines from..... Renault. So they are still readily avileble because of collectors of old Daf's. That is no good to you I understand. Because we are on the other side of the world. I like the fact that all the alterations you have made to the car are reversible so there is an easy way back to the original for the new owner once you are done. As far as I understood you are not planning on keeping the car for ever. 😄 Thanks for the video, it was a pleasure to watch, can't wait for the next one!
Jimbo, it would be quite interesting to see what the acceleration numbers are for 100 and 200 meters. I don’t think Usain needs to worry about getting beaten by your little creation at 100 meters, but it still does surprisingly well for a lawn mower !! This Renault is a fascinating conversion …
I would have at least liked to hear the first muffler with the baffle in place. You're already adapting up just to fit the muffler, so I doubt the restriction is actually going to make much difference at all. And... it would be really simple to run 2 back-to-back tests to see whether it actually matters or not.
It’s turning out to be a fine lil build. 35+mpg in a cool oddball older lil car would be fun honestly. A/C would make it a perfect lil every day! It needs a TAC so you don’t over rev.
People keep complaining about the CVT? I don't get it. My 2019 Insight has a CVT, gets better gas mileage than a car I know about that has a lawnmower engine and is about half the weight. Has twice the top speed and quieter too, but nevermind; thanks for the amusing content every Sunday morning.
I would love to see another forced induction build with a small 4 stroke engine, or another small diesel, maybe a 2 cylinder. just ignore the people that complain and keep up the fun builds
Always great work and narration. Maybe in a future project you could take two v twins and make a v4. Several of those projects on you tube already, but would be neat to see the comparison between v2 and a v4 performance. Need to build a small pickup for a shop truck!!! Love the channel!!
No idea why people would be haters, either you watch and enjoy or you don’t, it’s that simple ! And if you feel you would do it so much better, then you should and it would mean you don’t really have the time to watch the competition anyway…
heh, something you said reminded me of a song, it goes 'let's follow the cops back home... and rob their houses'. a pictim from model-engine-ignition might be nice, help with the noise issue, i'm really only familiar with the regular tims, i was investigating for an ignition to put in a hitmiss motorbike, having a flight of fancy doesn't mean i'm dumb enough to actually do it.
❤The twin cylinder Predator powered 'Reh-Nawlt'.. I'd say just go for efficiency, that'll improve both MPG and performance. Like upping the compression ratio on the engine 😃 Maybe overhaul the transmission too, to fix that reverse and improve any losses there... TBH i just really want to see this classic car be ACTUALLY USABLE heh 😉
The staggered jetting maybe needed for the odd ball firing order on that V twin. The only reason they make any industrial engine a v twin is to make them more compact. The old opposed brigs was a much smoother more durable engine. But It was a flat head that ran dirty if they added overhead valves it would have become to wide to work for many industrial application's. So we have v twins. Some motorcycles still have them like Harleys but that's just for the image.
Carburator spacers and Carburator black magics would be dank. Thermal isolation and a longer runner seems like a good start on engine. I'm personally interested in kohler k series single cylenders and the tractor pullers that use them in cub cadets rly rly hot rod those engines. A different cam grind might help with playing when the power come in too. In the 60's king midget micro cars used 12 and 14hp k series the 350 small block of single cylenders
Renault when I was a kid my gramps was a motorhead and one day he came home with a 65 Renault. He painted it flat black and gave it to my aunt's new husband. He cut the roof off the back seat so he could haul washers and dryers home to work on . Now my other experience with Renault was in the 60s was my best friends parents had a ve bug but next door to their house was their grandparents and they had a white Renault about a 65 they trained it in for ford's new economy car a pinto .lol.
Could be fun to see you dig bit deeper into engine itself I'm sure you should be able to get your hands on some higher compression pistons that word fit it . Or port and polish the head with Dremel or something.
After your monologue at the end there about how much you like the CVT, I can't help but chime in on it lol. The car it's attached to already has an off the shelf clutch system you could use. A motorcycle chain to a countershaft with a flywheel on it that will accept an OEM clutch would get your shift speeds way down. Shifts take forever the way it is now, and as you said, the CVT robs power. I don't think it would be significantly more complex to build than what you have now, and it may even end up coming out cheaper if you can source the clutch parts. Just some thoughts, and as usual, love the videos. I'll keep enjoying either way.
Awesome video, I liked the sound and the Doppler effect as you did a drive by, sounded real cool. You got the little Renault to go pretty fast. Looking forward to seeing what you do next. Keep it up, love the content, I come here for your enjoyable insanity not to add my two cents worth. Those who can, do. Those who can't, criticise.
Dear Jimbo, I think I can speak for all of your friends and subscribers when I say we would love to see you build a real muffler for these little engines that both reduces noise and doesn't restrict flow. I'm sure you can just whip one up. Love, a fan.
Sounds great Jimbo! If the 670cc Predator has the same solid core plug wires as the rest of the Predators, you may be able to change to carbon core plug wires for less RF interference. (For use with the upcoming electronical stuff). I'm sure you've probably already thought of this but I thought I'd throw it out there as a just in case. Love the Renault!
