So Im rebuilding a beams motor...., Who wants to touch me. :P Options

[roman]

Hi folks.

A few of you guys here seem pretty interested in the beams motor.

Well I am rebuilding one at the moment.

I know quite a lot about these engines, as I have been researching for the last year or so, trying to find out information here and there.

I have the motor in bits at the moment, my hands are tied until I get my bottom end bearings.

So if you have any questions, or would like to see any pics etc, let me know.

My motor has a port & polished head (Which was done by an unknown company in Japan) heat wrapped TOMs extractrors, Apexi intake, cusco paddle clutch, light weight cusco flywheel, balanced crank/rods/pistons/flywheel, and the cat has been replaced with a straight through pipe.

Hopefully it will make in the region of 210-220 flywheel hp, or about 180-185 hp at the wheels.

And BTW it will be going into a 1050kg MR2.

This post has been edited by roman: Dec 7, 2005 - 2:56 AM

[roman]

ok am gonna ask a "noob" question - are american cars underpowered ? over here a ss2 celica 3sge i think is supposed to be roughyl 178 bhp standard . And your doing all this work to get roughly the same , well ok a bit more power ? am i missing something ? or just being silly !!??

First of all, if you take a look over there <---------

You will notice that I'm not American.

New Zealand is the land of Japanese hand me downs, probably 90% of the cars on our roads are jap imports.
That we get really cheap, being so close to Japan.

The 178hp engine is the gen 3 3sge, and is the amount of power that the car makes at the FLYWHEEL.

approx. 15% of this power is lost through the transmission, as it takes power to turn the gears, run the pumps, alternator, etc.

So when I say that I hope for 180 wheel hp, this would be about 210hp at the flywheel.

Yes it is a lot of work for not a huge amount of power, but half of the point of this project is to increase my knowledge, and have a fun project to do.
As well as the fact that the redtop has a broader spread of power thanks to the VVTI, so even if it made only 178hp, it would still be notably faster than a gen 3 engine.

I wouldnt be surprised to see more than 180whp, but Im trying not to be too optimistic, as a lot of people tend to be, and end up very dissapointed when they get to the dyno.

This post has been edited by roman: Dec 21, 2005 - 9:51 PM