Smithy wrote:probably premature but wondering if theres any plans for the gearbox itself and the body of the car ie. light wieght doors, plastic-ish windows, etcetera?
...I must admit this is all very exciting to follow!
. . . so once its all finished and running, you'll be putting together a bolt on CityTurbo 200hp kit I trust ?
For the gearbox I am going to use a rebuilt T2 gearbox, this should hold the power fine, they are faily similar to other Honda gearboxe sin their construction. Some 8 second FWD drag cars in the states are running close to 1000hp through standard b18c gearboxes!!
For clutch I am going to run a lightened T2 flywheel (not too much turbo cars like a bit of weight to boost against), with a standard organic friction plate and an uprated pressure plate. Lots of people over here get away with this on B series engines, I went for a drive in a 500hp EG civic that was running a standard b18c5 friction plate just with a fairly heavy uprated spring int he pressure plate.
I won't be heading down the light weight route on this car, this is my daily driver so I want soud deadening and windows that don't rattle and a stereo. My car weighs about 800kg wet at the moment, will probably go up with the turbo manifold and stuff, but not too much. 800kg and 200hp should be plenty fast up to legal speeds. Im not a big fan of anything 120+ very often anyway, the street isn't the place for it. In saying that it will probably make it to a few club track days so I can see what it does with no limits except me and the car For a track day I would strip out all spare interior, saves about 40kg including tools and spare wheel etc, makes a very noticable difference.
Everything that I am doing will be relatively easy to copy, once I have tuned the car the file for that will be available, you can easily buy the same turbo I have, can easily get someone to make a manifold for it etc. Going to something like quad throttles won't be nesc., could get away with a modified factory manifold and TB.
turbocab wrote:hehe i have a devious plan afoot to build a copy of bigelboe's engine once he has ironed out all the bugs.
ide do it right now with him on my spare motor but funds dont currently allow it.
keep up the good work bigelboe.
matt
Hehe fair enough, I am kee to see how far these motors will go on factory internals. I already have plans for the motor I am going to put in my car after this one