You've got a few facts mixed up Walt Walter Coe wrote: >If all goes well, you will see my "lovely new hand-built engine" from Darren >Bowker & Martin. We aren't even sure what it is going to be yet. We are >talking about starting with a block from an Alpine A610 which is a turbo PRV >starting at 250BHP. By doing standard souped-up stuff, etc. it will be >around 350BHP when done. > The 3 litre A610 engine can be tuned to well over 400-450hp RELIABLY. In an A610. > >First he has to find the A610 block which they say is as rare as rocking >horse shit. > In England, but they still race them in France. >Both engines would have distributorless ignition, electronic >fuel injection, Emerald engine management that can interface with a Windoze >laptop. Just how much fun can this be? > An A610 engine will use a race-mappable ECU which are available in France. The Emerald ECU would be for the 24v normally aspirated lump. > But with this much >horsepower I'll be finding a different transmission anyway. Do y'all think >it would be worth having turbos with 350 BHP when I could still get 250 BHP >from a normally aspirated engine? > The 3l 24 valve engine is tunable to over 300hp. 350 is possible. Personally, I'd go with the normally aspirated engine because 1) You know it'd be okay with a stock 3 speed auto tranny (it's the torque of the american lumps that kills them, not the smooth hp power bands of one of these) 2) The exhaust will use the same configuration 3) The pipework on a turbo engine may well turn into a nightmare as we try to plumb in an intercooler. You'll incurr a lot of costs of us getting the exhaust made to fit. 4) There may be heat issues in the engine bay with the turbo where it is on that engine 5) IMHO the 3 litre 24 valve engine will be nicer to look at :-) 6) The money you save can go on a custom 5-speed gearbox with shorter low-end gears, higher final drive and a LSD. Donuts anyone? Martin Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ADVERTISEMENT <http://rd.yahoo.com/M=244522.3512152.4794593.1261774/D=egroupweb/S=170512 6215:HM/A=1595055/R=0/SIG=1247d4o3g/*http://ashnin.com/clk/muryutaitakenat togyo?YH=3512152&yhad=1595055> Click Here! <http://us.adserver.yahoo.com/l?M=244522.3512152.4794593.1261774/D=egroupm ail/S=:HM/A=1595055/rand=810966577> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: DMCForum-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service <http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/> .
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