RE: [doc] Performance Engine & my new car

["Chris Parnham" <cp@xxxx>]

Not a lot, the pipes are a lot shorter and less complicated. The silencer
looks stock.
You can see it in the flesh, so to speak tomorrow.

CP


-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Gutkowski [mailto:webmaster@xxxx]
Sent: 27 September 2002 14:03
To: doc-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [doc] Performance Engine & my new car


Thanks Chris - I will pass this along

BTW does the new system look anything like Ed Uding's one?

http://www.dmc-service.nl/Main.htm

Martin

Chris Parnham wrote:

>Martin,
>My son-in-Law does gas flowing on Engines, he works from home and doubtless
>could do you a good deal. He works on racing motor bikes etc, got all the
>gear, Knows what he's doing.
>
>Chrispy.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Martin Gutkowski [mailto:webmaster@xxxx]
>Sent: 27 September 2002 13:50
>To: doc-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [doc] Performance Engine & my new car
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>Hello peeps
>
>As some are now aware - I've slapped a deposit down on that D in Germany
>that was posted on this list a week or two back. I go to collect it next
>weekend, and barring any really nasty surprises will be bringing it back
>here in order to fit a new engine, seats and whatever else it needs to
>restore it to MOTable condition.
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>Interestingly, because the engine is a write-off, and because the turbo
>system that wrote it off has been removed, I am starting with a blank
>sheet with regards the engine and exhaust.
>
>In working on #2727 (the twin-turbo belinging to Richard Johnstone), we
>found a guy in Manchester, very close to Dave actually, who knows the
>PRV very well. I asked him if he could help find me one and he asked for
>some photos of the DMC PRV so he could work out what version it was. I
>spoke to him earlier and this is what he said: The sandwich plate on
>which the block mounts is the same as the Renault 25, but the internals
>and the heads are all Volvo, but the pulleys are Renault. You can't take
>the sandwich plate off one engine and swap to another, so he'd have to
>build me an engine, taking a 2.7 block and replacing the pistons,
>liners, crankshaft and heads from a Volvo. Because all the components
>are readily available, the cost would not be too much (under a grand) -
>and I'd have basically a new engine.
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>I then asked him about building a bit more performance into it, and he
>started to get quite excited. With the K-Jet system off a volvo, new
>cams, gas flowed heads, lightened and balanced flywheel and a
>free-flowing exhaust (there's a nice coincidence!), we're looking at up
>to 230 hp. This is not just an estimate - he has done this before on a
>normall aspirated PRV for use in a kit car, and because we're starting
>with an engine that needs building in the first place, the cost "should
>not be a lot more than for building a stock engine". He's getting back
>to me next week with pricing, and that of course will affect my
>decision. I made it clear and he agreed that the engine should not look
>different from the stock one - the only noticable change would be the
>lack of Lambda system and therefore the frequency valve. I also stressed
>that as I'm planning on fixing this car up for sale, it would have to be
>reliable, and he basically said "it'd be like a new engine", and we all
>know these lumps are pretty solid!
>
>Just thought I'd see what you thought.
>
>Martin
>#1458 & #4426
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