that turbo is huge
It's pretty tight in the engine bay with everything in there!
that turbo is huge
Christ.
Before you modify yours, remember 200bhp is the limit for a fwd car
lol, have you looked into it? What sort of weight would that entail, if you know that is?
Awesome build!! Lhd car?
Awesome build.
Think i saw a mazda at trax today with cooksport on the side? Which sounded utterly mental. It could of said something else though lol.
Then why is the brake excellerator on the left? Is it linked trough?
Will be interesting to see how the block takes those sort of power levels, Ive had issues with the block cracking on other engines I have built at that sort of power level and the F4RT block doesnt seem especially generous with regards to the amount of metal between the bores etc.
Making the power is a piece of cake, its wether or not its reliable thats the issue.
Will be interesting to see how the block takes those sort of power levels, Ive had issues with the block cracking on other engines I have built at that sort of power level and the F4RT block doesnt seem especially generous with regards to the amount of metal between the bores etc.
Making the power is a piece of cake, its wether or not its reliable thats the issue.
Have you measured the wall thickness or are you just going in blind and hoping for the best?
If I am dealing with a new engine Im not familiar with and looking for big power, what I do is get a spare block and just keep boring it out bigger and bigger till I break through, so that I can see if there are any obvious weak points.
Like so:
As sometimes (a series mini for example) you can end up with a better wall thickness if you offset the bores very slightly as the standard bore location isnt always the optimum one with the casting.
This has been accounted for. Dont worry Chip, we know what we are doing.
So what have you done in terms of block strength then, cause its certainly not pinned or anything on those pics, looks to be totally standard in fact.
It is sound advise from chip! Anyway when did you learn to map?
We want to push the standard block to see what its capable of, as with the gearbox, crank etc.
So thats what we are doing.
Yawwwwwnnnnnn..
Here we go again
Sadly my experience of renault engine components is that there is a massive variation between them, so even if you find out all about your particular parts, if you try and then replace them with other standard ones, you'll get entirely different failure points the next time.
Fingers crossed the blocks are stronger than they look, I guess at least with being a race car it will be pretty limited in terms of the number of times it heat cylces etc, so not like trying to do the same on a road car in that respect, although conversely of course during use the loads are typically higher even if only for short durations.
This is our road car. Ultimately the engine will end up dead, its the whole point in pushing it to see what breaks first. My bet is the crank or block (probably block), but lets see if we can hit 700bhp before that happens
Good to see somebody pushing the engine to its limits, seeing what the breaking point of a standard block is. Certainly not something you see everyday!
Dunno about stagnant, definitely socially inactive lol. Still have a couple of chums with high powered R5's down this way. Don't see many high powered Meganes though, I only know of a few 300bhp ones.