Hello gents
First let me start off by saying that i am not superstitious. Not me.
100% rational
So a few months ago i decided to try my own Feng Shui. There may have been psilocybin involved.
I thought, what if i laid a trail of coins from outside my front door, across my threshold. Might it cause money to flow into my household?
Well three months later i have my answer.
Due to a combination of potholes and a moody driveway resurface i suffered six punctures, two leaking shock absorders, two wheel bearings, a pair of balljoints a suspension arm and, from pulling two 4x4's out of a snowy ditch, a knackered clutch. Then my pride and joy Boulder power amp returned from the mender's only to wave the white flag within a week. Then i got the Evo back after fixing the oily bits, and within the same day to blow a piston
(it came back with no fuel, i rolled down to the local filling station and put in the minimum amount of regular unleaded to get me to the nearest source of 97 ron super unleaded, then filled up with proper juice, trickled off for about ten miles, then gradually built up speed, first proper WOT out of the bends and as boost built and i hit 4000rpm there was a massive shunt of a boost cut, what sounded like a backfire but from the engine not exhaust, immediately followed by the death rattle of a mortally wounded piston
This was how i came to be scrabbling around on all fours, in the dark and the rain, retrieving small coins from around my doorstep at 1 am
So, life hacking of the universe now abandoned, I'm applying myself to an engine build.
Which is a bit of a shame, as that aspect of my car was it's strongest card. I always knew I'd drop some H section forged rods in at some point, the known 'weakness' in the 4g63 engine, but was planning on getting around to that once I'd put some Irish tarmac rally-spec coilovers in
(the roads around here are heavenly, but take a fearful pounding over the winter what with a daily freeze - thaw - refreeze cycle plus added forestry logging lorries, giving a surface that varies from mildly ploughed to heavily mined)
However we are where we are. Which means an opportunity to build a proper engine
Obvious candidate is a 2.3 forged stroker kit. Even better would be a fully built, crated short engine. The standard gearbox is good for 600hp, so that would be the upper limit. Also previous experience with stroked big power engines has confirmed my tactic of building the biggest and strongest bottom end, combined with the smallest turbos you can get away with without strangling the top end, for ridiculous response. This is, after all, a road car, and on the road this combo makes for a weapon that pulls like a train from low down, giving maximum torque out of corners and from the opning up of sightlines.
So we will go 2.3 forged engine plus a Tial v-band GT30 turbo, most likely a 3037r, to make ~480 to 550hp
The stage we are at right now is deciding which short engine to go for.
Tomei of Japan and AMS from the US are the leading contenders. Magnus and Buschur also possibilities. I will place my order in the next fortnight, and if people are interested i will continue to update the thread as we progress ?
Previous projects:
R32 nisssn skyline gtr, bored and stroked from 2.6 to 3.0 with dry sumped OS Gikken short engine, triple plate clutch, OS88 sequential gearbox, active OS plated diffs front and rear, cf propshaft, 2860 'disco potato' turbos x 2, , full chro moly roll cage, stripped interior, grp doors lexan glass, 650hp 640 lb/ft torque, high 9's 1/4 mile but built for the b- roads, 1 bar of boost @3000rpm
Toyota mr-s, engine swap to lotus exige 190 spec 2zz, bored and stroked from 1.8 to 2.0, standalone ecu, lumpy cams, six spead box, lsd, 250 hp n/a
Are any other WBF members into tuning cars?
First let me start off by saying that i am not superstitious. Not me.
100% rational
So a few months ago i decided to try my own Feng Shui. There may have been psilocybin involved.
I thought, what if i laid a trail of coins from outside my front door, across my threshold. Might it cause money to flow into my household?
Well three months later i have my answer.
Due to a combination of potholes and a moody driveway resurface i suffered six punctures, two leaking shock absorders, two wheel bearings, a pair of balljoints a suspension arm and, from pulling two 4x4's out of a snowy ditch, a knackered clutch. Then my pride and joy Boulder power amp returned from the mender's only to wave the white flag within a week. Then i got the Evo back after fixing the oily bits, and within the same day to blow a piston
(it came back with no fuel, i rolled down to the local filling station and put in the minimum amount of regular unleaded to get me to the nearest source of 97 ron super unleaded, then filled up with proper juice, trickled off for about ten miles, then gradually built up speed, first proper WOT out of the bends and as boost built and i hit 4000rpm there was a massive shunt of a boost cut, what sounded like a backfire but from the engine not exhaust, immediately followed by the death rattle of a mortally wounded piston
This was how i came to be scrabbling around on all fours, in the dark and the rain, retrieving small coins from around my doorstep at 1 am
So, life hacking of the universe now abandoned, I'm applying myself to an engine build.
Which is a bit of a shame, as that aspect of my car was it's strongest card. I always knew I'd drop some H section forged rods in at some point, the known 'weakness' in the 4g63 engine, but was planning on getting around to that once I'd put some Irish tarmac rally-spec coilovers in
(the roads around here are heavenly, but take a fearful pounding over the winter what with a daily freeze - thaw - refreeze cycle plus added forestry logging lorries, giving a surface that varies from mildly ploughed to heavily mined)
However we are where we are. Which means an opportunity to build a proper engine
Obvious candidate is a 2.3 forged stroker kit. Even better would be a fully built, crated short engine. The standard gearbox is good for 600hp, so that would be the upper limit. Also previous experience with stroked big power engines has confirmed my tactic of building the biggest and strongest bottom end, combined with the smallest turbos you can get away with without strangling the top end, for ridiculous response. This is, after all, a road car, and on the road this combo makes for a weapon that pulls like a train from low down, giving maximum torque out of corners and from the opning up of sightlines.
So we will go 2.3 forged engine plus a Tial v-band GT30 turbo, most likely a 3037r, to make ~480 to 550hp
The stage we are at right now is deciding which short engine to go for.
Tomei of Japan and AMS from the US are the leading contenders. Magnus and Buschur also possibilities. I will place my order in the next fortnight, and if people are interested i will continue to update the thread as we progress ?
Previous projects:
R32 nisssn skyline gtr, bored and stroked from 2.6 to 3.0 with dry sumped OS Gikken short engine, triple plate clutch, OS88 sequential gearbox, active OS plated diffs front and rear, cf propshaft, 2860 'disco potato' turbos x 2, , full chro moly roll cage, stripped interior, grp doors lexan glass, 650hp 640 lb/ft torque, high 9's 1/4 mile but built for the b- roads, 1 bar of boost @3000rpm
Toyota mr-s, engine swap to lotus exige 190 spec 2zz, bored and stroked from 1.8 to 2.0, standalone ecu, lumpy cams, six spead box, lsd, 250 hp n/a
Are any other WBF members into tuning cars?