ari666
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Yeah look, all I am saying is work your way up. Right now you probably have all these kw, hp, nm and ftlb figures swimming round I your head but JUST STOP.
There is tonnes Of literature on building engines. The best money you will ever spend is 50 bucks on the Holden v8 bible. Then there are around 5 or six other books i can recommend. Reading and learning takes a long time, and true some times you need to make all the wrong decisions first before you learn, but forums like this are here to hopefully helP you avoid that $20k sting that you will regret later.
So, and this will hopefully be my last lecture: what do you want? Why do you want it?
We users here on jc can build you a race motor that delivers 600hp, but stalls at every set of traffic lights, we can give you a 400hp engine that will have enough low torque to split your block, ooooor, we can give you a 250hp engine that gets Peak torque@1600 rpm and smokes most cars from one set of lights to the next.
You need to decide ongears, you need to decide on fuel consumption, you need to decide on cost, you need to decide on use, etc etc etcetcetcetcetc.
Get yourself a really basic book called 4 stroke performance tuning by a. Graham bell. It'll be about 30 bucks anday take a week to read, but if you are gonna drop 20k then a weeks worth of research is good value
There is tonnes Of literature on building engines. The best money you will ever spend is 50 bucks on the Holden v8 bible. Then there are around 5 or six other books i can recommend. Reading and learning takes a long time, and true some times you need to make all the wrong decisions first before you learn, but forums like this are here to hopefully helP you avoid that $20k sting that you will regret later.
So, and this will hopefully be my last lecture: what do you want? Why do you want it?
We users here on jc can build you a race motor that delivers 600hp, but stalls at every set of traffic lights, we can give you a 400hp engine that will have enough low torque to split your block, ooooor, we can give you a 250hp engine that gets Peak torque@1600 rpm and smokes most cars from one set of lights to the next.
You need to decide ongears, you need to decide on fuel consumption, you need to decide on cost, you need to decide on use, etc etc etcetcetcetcetc.
Get yourself a really basic book called 4 stroke performance tuning by a. Graham bell. It'll be about 30 bucks anday take a week to read, but if you are gonna drop 20k then a weeks worth of research is good value
