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Bolt spacing will be alright, just measure the internal diameter of your bodies to be sure.

Perfect.

What's the bore of them Neil, I have just had a cracking idea, hopefully it works. Will end up with 145m trumpet and the bodies themselves will be 65 mm further from the engine. Anyone think that's too big? Chip? Going too big kill the BHP?

I hope its a quick fix for you and you get it up and running with the same spec so we can all see what kind of results the PMS manifold is capable off.

Yeah I would guess that's one of the reasons, it wasn't mapped before, he did mention earlier that due to time constraints he would have to map it after the trackday, I think he knew there could be trouble as he adjusted some things by guessing how well it would perform before going.

Yup but the Honda engine was actually developed alongside Rovers engine branch hence it keeping that 'K' name as I'm sure you know. Shame it was frittered out to low level company's and allowed to have coolant system changes and poor ancillaries bolted to it as the core is 2nd to none.

Did you get my PM George?

Not good news but like Chip says it is probably a good thing in a way from a power potential side.

Disagree lol, the k-series is potentially the best and lightest 4 pot inline block/head of them all and the Honda is a heavy copy of but yeah standard the Honda has all sorts of exotic metals in it so good out the box up to a certain level.

Yeah I'll look into Mark, it won't be a few years until I go verniers (or I hope so) so I have a while, cam cover chopped into 3 bits is an idea though. Yeah what you had wasn't exactly a competition car Chip and I bet you went through a few engines too with that power, turning XE's...

Its all much of a muchness in price afaik, all expensive. I don't know much about XE's technically or JRE but they are not getting those stated figures from a 2000cc engine without charging. You were risking it for a biscuit then with no dry sump, one of the first things my mate had to do to...

Ah okay, I get what your saying. I thought you just had to remove the cam cover. Looks good, did you make your own cam caps for timing the camshafts to the engine?

What did you to the cam cover to fit the exhaust? Also was you changing the cam timing?

Re group N regs, does anyone have any Renaultsport literature for these cars, parts catalogue etc? I have a friend looking to build his cup to a group n spec and can't find anything.

^^^^ because 2nd hand parts are more readily available as there is a bigger market. Buy new or have someone do it and its much of a muchness. Most of the ford figures are inflated that you see all these tuning companies spouting, realistically a proper spec duratec is doing 270bhp and not the...

Slow stuff you will be lifting/unloading wheels around cones and tight bends on the power and the wheels will spin with a Quaife, gripper will always lock. Just copy what other competitors have done in their cars, I personally wouldn't fit anything other than a plated diff for competition.

And on the same token, revving an engine isn't everything.

Totally agree.... and like I keep saying, XE's, Zetec's, Duratecs etc are used on many different makes and models of cars and have had the time spent on them by many different tuners so as you say there are more options.

Thats for Chip-mk1 right?

Clio? Gladfully Sir!!!

Yeah but what would those mods give you? Less than an F4R cammed anyway. Same spend. Any good competition engine will have finger followers and solid lifters so that irrelevant. Same with piston speeds, crank and rods are changed to combat that. At certain levels other engines are cheaper to...

Neil are they a trumpet spacer or a body spacer? PM a pic if you have one, I might have them.

Cheap pounds per BHP, they don't handle like a Clio though. My pal just spent 3k for circa 180lbft and 230bhp from a completely standard car, that's with standalone too.

Anything with a H on the front?

Circa 300 is what the Proton Satrias (F4R) put out and that's still single throttle. Its always said on here that F4r's are hard to tune which they're not, I don't think F4R's are any different to a c20 or Zetec for tuning, it just hasn't been done in the mainstream yet. I.e a Millington...

Great pics James, the one at home in the garage is quality.

Bejesus that's different.

519 automotive is well placed to comment on what's best as he was part of testing at emerald, told me himself!!

Nice feature that, its Omex you run too right. Yeah there's a thicker core alloy version of the standard one but its too tall for ITB's and big trumpets.