RE: [doc] Performance Engine & my new car

["Chris Parnham" <cp@xxxx>]

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


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.

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.

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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