my mom has a dodge caravan, mostly boring cars inn my family. but my aunt has an audi sq5 and my uncle has a 2014 viper
We have two Toyota Siennas, one from 2005, the other is a 2014, my stepdad has a 2015 BMW X5 MSport, and I have my '76 Duster. hoping to add an early 2000's harley to the list this year.
my mum has a 2007 honda jazz (fit in other countries) and my dad has a fair amount of cars, see new line 1991 Range Rover P38a, Jaguar XF (08 2.7 DV6, now sold), Jaguar XFS (2011 3.0 DV6), Fiat Coupe 16v turbo, Lancia Y 1.4, Corvette stingray (3rd gen) Lincoln Towncar (basically a ford crown vic with a lincoln badge), and a Lots Of Trouble Usually Serious that is in a lot of different pieces that has lost colour and oxidized, and another 2 cars that were a 2 door that were italian, cant remember the name but one is behind a shed and the other is in the garage, the 2nd one did work (after a jump start and literally 15 trys) and ran well, it ran out of petrol whilst we were driving so i nicknamed it the hybrid. we also had a jaguar x-type that was blue and before that a gold x-type (ford mondeo with a jaguar body), first car was a mini cooper (proper one not a silly BMW one) that he still has but it has no seatbelts and says that it isnt safe enough. My mum used to have both a renault espace 3.0 diesel v6 (magnificient engine btw, its an isuzu plant) and a saab 9-3 aero automatic 2.0T, the saab had abysmal fuel economy having around 25mpg and the renault faired better with 34mpg, her first car was a citroen saxo **EDIT** The 2 door car was a fiat X1/9, saw it on carthrottle
Go for more. I make 120 foot pounds of peak torque and just over 200hp. If you need a bigger turbo save for a few months I promise the horsepower will be worth it.
More power would be nice and all, but the tune I'm looking at is $550 and is just an ECU tune that's +30 HP and +70 ft-lbs. A larger turbo, while nice, is $1200 just in itself. By the time I add the necessary clutch upgrade, ECU tune, new turbo piping, and other parts (I've done some research) it would end up at about $3,000. And that's for +50 hp and +85 ft-lbs. To me, the extra $2,500 or so is not worth 20 HP and 15 ft-lbs. That's just how the VW diesels are IMO... There's more to be gained by making what you have better than to put all new parts on. Not to mention that VW's are notoriously a pain to work on
Well you've done your research and I agree given those facts. I'm in the same boat. I can get cams for 750, put some uprated valve train I have in another head in, 500 for the programable ecu, 400 to 500 for a dyno tune and I'll get maybe another 30 or 40 horsepower. Or I can spend another 2k and put down 500 at the wheels. Go with the tune haha EDIT: forgot the 4 to 1 race header and intake manifold for a combined 5 to 600
Yeah, 160 HP isn't a crazy amount, but the fact that I can put down almost 300 ft lbs from 2,000 to 3,000 rpm is just nuts. My redline is at 5,000. Shift point going all out is like 4,250 or so xD
My engine won't get out of bed until 6500rpm and flat out I usually shift it between 92 and 9500rpm. If I had the cams it would make power to 10.5k but I'd never do that to a car I daily and don't only track.
Dang. Talk about turbo lag... My buddy has a '13 Dodge dart with the 1.4 turbo, and that thing is sooo slow until about 4,500. You'd have to shift the dang thing so often because it's got no low end. That's why I love my car. I can cruise at 45 in 6th at 1,200 rpm no problem. 70 mph is 2,000 rpm. So much usable torque/hp
I would never feel safe running any car anywhere near how high yours is going. Forgive me if I'm being ignorant, but a Civic going near the 10000 RPM Mark doesn't even sound believable
Sorry, meant to say his engine not yours And I don't know a thing about V-TECS... When he said power at 6,500 my mind went to turbo lag
What 6677 said, and it has a very short stroke compared to yours so every rev the Pistons move much less than yours per rev than yours. Mine is also balanced very well and that helps a lot with surviving hi revs like that but no matter what it's hard on the engine. I will be thoroughly satisfied if the engine sees 100k miles the way I treat it, but it will be swapped into a gutted track only shell in less than 20k when I go turbo as I'd be insane to turbo an 11.4 cr engine without running 10 dollar a gallon race gas. When I can afford to I'll build a nice little low compression forged short block and go to town. So much money.
Makes sense I guess. Gotta remember too that my compression ratio (stock) is 16.5:1... Which is pretty normal for a diesel
If only I didn't have to mix the fuel and air before compression. Sorry for jacking this thread cary on with your thread.
VTEC is a system of having 2 entirely different cam profiles on one camshaft. One that is tuned basically for economy and one is a rather peaky aggressive one. Tend to find around 6.5k in his case, the car switches from one cam profile to the other which will have different timing, duration and lift. The VTEC engines in theory should be great, but hondas default off VTEC cam profile is really undertuned, hilariously so, you tend to find you have no torque at all off of VTEC (even in their somewhat sportier models) and then it all hits you like a truck once VTEC engages, somewhat like a laggy turbo. Most honda engines will also rev pretty unnaturally high. A stock S2000 will go over 8k going on 9....
again, what he said. he is right about the stock primary, and i am for sure undercammed at my compression especially in the low range. the set of cams i want not only bigger lobes and more durration on the vtec profile, it also has much larger primaries to fix the problem you brought up. as it sits if you disable my vtec and shift at 6500 it makes about 130 or 140 bhp.
I think there have been several threads much like this one already, but whatever, I'll bite. I own two Dodge Ram 50s, one is a 1989 2wd base model, and the other is a 1988 sport cab 4x4 custom model, (top of the line) that has since gotten a new drivetrain and dash. I technically own a 1990 Mitsubishi Montero as well, but it was merely a parts rig for the '88 ram and currently has no engine, dash, or wiring harness. It's going to the crusher as soon as I take the axles out from under it. Lets see.. My parents own a 2005 Chevy Suburban, a 1974 Jensen-Healey Mark II that I helped restore, and a 1975 Corvette, my sister has a 2002 Mitsubishi Lancer, my brother has a 1994 Mazda MX-5, and a 1993 Mazda MX-3, and my other brother has a 2005 John cooper Works Mini Cooper which I've never seen.
