[[WD]CaPo]

My spanking new race-spec engine is half built!
Bottom end has now been fully lightened and balanced including low compression forged steel pistons and conrods (had to wait for them to come from Germany).Molly coated piston liners,under piston oil spray* (*only 3 renault5gtturbo engines in the country with this mod including mine!)
knifedged and balanced+reground crankshaft.

Hopefully the rest should be finished within a week or 2 which will be..
"GT" spec camshaft,lightened and balanced flywheel,ported and polished head and matched to manifold,vernier camshaft pulley,high lift valve springs,valves recut,uprated valve stem seals,A.R,P bolts,refit of my Hybrid Garrett t25 turbo,knock sensor with lambda probe,10 row oil cooler.

Thats all for now......all been paid for,just waiting for the guys to finish it now like a kid waiting for christmas then i have to spend 1,500 very boring miles running the engine in while keeping it under 5000 rpm after that its playtime!!!

I know the resident scouser thinks im mad but put this into perspective.....a Porsche 911 turbo (£80,600 btw) has a bhp per litre figure of 113.6 bhp per litre...a Porsche 997 has 117 bhp per litre....a Lamborghini gallardo (£123,000!!) has a bhp per litre figure of 100.79 bhp per litre.....My "lil trashcan" 5 will be running in the region of 150 bhp per litre! (cant be 100% sure untill the engine has been run in and the boost has been correctly set up with the fueling on a rolling road) but that pisses all over far more expensive and exotic machinery!!!!! (Ok i wont have porsche top end speed but ill whip most of em to 60 or down a quarter mile drag track and for a fraction of the cost of one of those "supercars")
Before the new race spec engine build my car had 213bhp at the Flywheel-around 190bhp at the wheels.....new engine should be around 230-260bhp at the Flywheel!! depending on how much boost i run but 26psi should be enough (not bad for a 1.4 litre 1397cc 8 valve pushrod engine with carb and no fuel injection eh).
Good times ahead!
Can only guess at quarter mile times and 0-60 figures atm but ill be suprised if it dont do 60 in around 4 seconds and with my old engine i ran a best quarter mile of 13.8 secs......should be able to knock 2 secs off that time.
Ill post some pics when i get the car back with new engine in but atm theres no bling or shiney bits on the engine...all about go an not show this time.

[[WD]Gelosea]

not sure what mosta that means but it sounds impressive lol, put some pics up and il show my sisters bloke maybe he can explain it all to me lol.

I just spent 800 quid on a new guitar! Australian handmade, Solid Bunya top, Queensland maple back and sides, its gonna sounds sexy, comes on tuesday, i will be counting down the hours lol.

[smeD^]

sweet, i'm currently reshelling a mk1 uno turbo, gotta love the old hot hatches!

although i doubt you'll do 60 in 4 seconds and a quarter mile in 11.8 though, it'll go like shit of a shovel no doubt!

[FR4SER]

You didnt say how much thats skinning you.

I bought a guitar aswell recently. Was pretty cheap though, since im a newb and still learning my cords and some easy songs.

[Gabe]

Sounds nice...id like it but wouldnt go to all those lengths and get as excited but each to their own....n1 made up for ya! My present cars shite!
Ive got a Les Paul with mother of pearl trimmings but its been on the wall for the last few years never been touched...as has my acoustic too!

[[WD]Gelosea]

Paul you know that is a crime, esp with that sound card you have!

[[WD]Sniffy]

just buy a gallardo..... ;-)

Nice I think...
Next project will be a motor on water as the oil will be to expensive

[[WD]CaPo]

Originally Posted by smeD^

sweet, i'm currently reshelling a mk1 uno turbo, gotta love the old hot hatches!

although i doubt you'll do 60 in 4 seconds and a quarter mile in 11.8 though, it'll go like shit of a shovel no doubt!

As soon as its run in and ive finished stripping out the interior ill post the times.
The quarter mile record for a GTTurbo stands at 10.43. on slick drag tyres. (i did say i could only guess atm and "around 4 secs" :P)

[Gabe]

Originally Posted by [WD]Gelosea

Paul you know that is a crime, esp with that sound card you have!

Yeh m8....just not had the motivation really and into other things but can still get into a nice jam now and again. Its the time too cos atm I bin living with my bird and kids and my giutars are here along with my PCs,drugs and PC have ruined my life! Or nearly!

[[WD]CaPo]

Yeah but it was fun tho eh.........

Back on topic: I have a bird that has a go on my old pink oboe at weekends,very relaxing.