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ali f27 - 21/12/10 at 01:01 PM

Here we go fancy taking road car hill climbing as well we keep breaking race car be nice to have back up thinking about 1.7 class so standerd pumu engine have throttle bodys 45 and after market management what sort of bhp do you think we might make will make good exhaust manifold for it cheers Ali

beaver34 - 21/12/10 at 01:09 PM

stock head will see 160 bhp with shawspeed ss4 cams have alook on there site, do anything from fast road to race engines 220+

ali f27 - 21/12/10 at 01:17 PM

Cheers for that beaver should be enough to beat Blackbird engine.

NS Dev - 21/12/10 at 01:20 PM

tricky descision between that and K-series..............

Not sure what I would do to be honest!

You've got lots of off the shelf bits with the k-series, from Caterham, but then there's a lot to like about the se too...........

a very good question is my best answer!!

In fact, come to all this, what about the vauxhall 1600XE..................they will go to 250+ on (albeit expensive) off the shelf steel bottom end parts..................its heavier though............but then its cheaper to build very strong! It also has an off the shelf type 9 bellhousing like the others (in fact cheaper as its been around for longer! )

beaver34 - 21/12/10 at 01:57 PM

quote:
Originally posted by NS Dev
tricky descision between that and K-series..............

Not sure what I would do to be honest!

You've got lots of off the shelf bits with the k-series, from Caterham, but then there's a lot to like about the se too...........

a very good question is my best answer!!

In fact, come to all this, what about the vauxhall 1600XE..................they will go to 250+ on (albeit expensive) off the shelf steel bottom end parts..................its heavier though............but then its cheaper to build very strong! It also has an off the shelf type 9 bellhousing like the others (in fact cheaper as its been around for longer! )


all parts are around the same, for the 3 engine i found when i looked, depends if you find a good supplier that will look after you!

i ran a 1600 sigma, on bike bodies, ss4 shawspeed cams shawspeed rod bolts shawspeed head with larger exhaust valves and made 175bhp at 8000rpm ran like that for 3 years in two cars

[Edited on 21/12/10 by beaver34]

NS Dev - 21/12/10 at 08:15 PM

yea its certainly different to the crossflow days!!

There are some impressive cars out there, 175hp not to be sniffed at (especially as it will have a LOT more torque spread than yer average bike engine )

There are a few 1700 cars out there with genuinly over 250hp.........................

beaver34 - 21/12/10 at 09:16 PM

quote:
Originally posted by NS Dev
yea its certainly different to the crossflow days!!

There are some impressive cars out there, 175hp not to be sniffed at (especially as it will have a LOT more torque spread than yer average bike engine )

There are a few 1700 cars out there with genuinly over 250hp.........................


and standard internals, apart from rod bolts