{"id":450,"date":"2016-02-15T10:12:54","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T18:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.msportvintage.com\/?p=450"},"modified":"2017-02-07T14:44:57","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T22:44:57","slug":"luigi-gets-a-new-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.msportvintage.com\/?p=450","title":{"rendered":"Luigi Gets a New Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may remember that last year at the Rolex Pre-reunion races the #1 main bearing in Luigi let go with catastrophic results. The failure was due to oil starvation, which was caused by the inability of the old Alpina dry-sump pump to keep up with the demands of the engine.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_451\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-451\" style=\"width: 474px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msportvintage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_3473.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-451\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-451\" src=\"http:\/\/www.msportvintage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_3473-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Oil starvation caused the #1 main bearing to let go.\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.msportvintage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_3473-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.msportvintage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_3473-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.msportvintage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_3473-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-451\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oil starvation caused the #1 main bearing to let go.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After some careful consultation with Terry Tinney we decided to build an engine based on the European M90 block and a modern oil pump.<\/p>\n<p>The new engine went on the dyno last week, and the results are impressive.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.msportvintage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/LuigiOnDyno.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-452\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-452\" src=\"http:\/\/www.msportvintage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/LuigiOnDyno-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Luigi On The Dyno\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.msportvintage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/LuigiOnDyno-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.msportvintage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/LuigiOnDyno-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.msportvintage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/LuigiOnDyno-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.msportvintage.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/LuigiOnDyno.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The new engine displaces 3.5 liters and is putting out 360 HP, with between 260 and 290 pound feet of torque between 4,000 and 7,000 RPM.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a link to Tinney&#8217;s Facebook page with a short video of it running:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Terry&#8230;483343?fref=ts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may remember that last year at the Rolex Pre-reunion races the #1 main bearing in Luigi let go with catastrophic results. The failure was due to oil starvation, which was caused by the inability of the old Alpina dry-sump pump to keep up with the demands of the engine. &nbsp; After some careful consultation &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msportvintage.com\/?p=450\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Luigi Gets a New Heart<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.msportvintage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.msportvintage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.msportvintage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.msportvintage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.msportvintage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=450"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.msportvintage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":496,"href":"http:\/\/www.msportvintage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450\/revisions\/496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.msportvintage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.msportvintage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.msportvintage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}