The Smart Drive

Well the Golf is down at the VW shop and the engine is in the engine shop!

About a week ago the engine was pulled from the car and delivered to the shop to get the cylinders bored. If you remember in the first post about the SVO Golf, the previous owner said the scoring on the cylinder was due to a detached filter…well that isn’t really the case. When the engine shop disassembled the short block they found large carbon deposits on the pistons. A little research in my new favorite book SVO: Powering Your Vehicle With Straight Vegetable Oil by Forest Gregg, I found that carbon deposits are the result of oil that is too cold or hasn’t been filter adequately. My guess is that the oil used wasn’t warmed well enough. I made a few videos of the pistons with deposits for others out there. (Yes it says poorly filtered, but now I think was too cold)

Next is to get some 0.5mm oversized pistons!

While you are here, take a look at the SVO Car Project page and the Electric Car Project page!