Thought I might as well throw a few pics your way gents. The engine is pretty much ready to go into the car now. At the last minute, as in last week, we have decided to go for a full LINK G3+ standalone system so now have to wait on some components to arrive and will install them before the engine goes in, just for better access. The work is a collaboration of Dave McGrath's who has appeared on hear briefly as Evil 944t and Neil Harvey of Performance Developments, a Kiwi who is residing in California now, ex of the UK when he worked with some unknown bloke called Gordon Murray during the all conquering Brabham BMW turbo days of the 80's. As you can see the workmanship of the deckplate is top notch.
Short story is that our last engine failed in October about a week after seeing some of you guys last year. We decided that the MID's had got the better of us and my mechanic went back to stock 2.5L from his 2.7L and I vascillated between doing that or using all the components that I had to try one last time at a 3.0L. This time it was going to be built shortblock with Dry not wet Darton sleeves with the deckplate, line bored, girdle pinned, be-squirted, larger 9/16ths headstuds, Cometic h/g all to go with the existing 3.0L knife crank, Vitesse stage 5 turbo, CEP racehead and big cam, modded and extruded inlet, larger throttle body, 2.75" i/c pipes and large front mount i/c. To go with that will be the LINK ems, a full custom SFR exhaust system with removeable Hi-Flow CAT that will be 3.5"-4"-5" out, plus new custom exhaust headers for RHD car and a GT35r turbo. We think this should be good for 500hp pretty comfortably but I'll believe it when I see it.
It should be into the dyno for the tuning the week after next. I shall report back the progress. To say that I'm looking forward to having a motor that lasts me more than 3.5 weeks out of 14 months is somewhat of an understatement!
Short story is that our last engine failed in October about a week after seeing some of you guys last year. We decided that the MID's had got the better of us and my mechanic went back to stock 2.5L from his 2.7L and I vascillated between doing that or using all the components that I had to try one last time at a 3.0L. This time it was going to be built shortblock with Dry not wet Darton sleeves with the deckplate, line bored, girdle pinned, be-squirted, larger 9/16ths headstuds, Cometic h/g all to go with the existing 3.0L knife crank, Vitesse stage 5 turbo, CEP racehead and big cam, modded and extruded inlet, larger throttle body, 2.75" i/c pipes and large front mount i/c. To go with that will be the LINK ems, a full custom SFR exhaust system with removeable Hi-Flow CAT that will be 3.5"-4"-5" out, plus new custom exhaust headers for RHD car and a GT35r turbo. We think this should be good for 500hp pretty comfortably but I'll believe it when I see it.
It should be into the dyno for the tuning the week after next. I shall report back the progress. To say that I'm looking forward to having a motor that lasts me more than 3.5 weeks out of 14 months is somewhat of an understatement!
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