So Im rebuilding a beams motor...., Who wants to touch me. :P Options

[roman]

Hi folks.

A few of you guys here seem pretty interested in the beams motor.

Well I am rebuilding one at the moment.

I know quite a lot about these engines, as I have been researching for the last year or so, trying to find out information here and there.

I have the motor in bits at the moment, my hands are tied until I get my bottom end bearings.

So if you have any questions, or would like to see any pics etc, let me know.

My motor has a port & polished head (Which was done by an unknown company in Japan) heat wrapped TOMs extractrors, Apexi intake, cusco paddle clutch, light weight cusco flywheel, balanced crank/rods/pistons/flywheel, and the cat has been replaced with a straight through pipe.

Hopefully it will make in the region of 210-220 flywheel hp, or about 180-185 hp at the wheels.

And BTW it will be going into a 1050kg MR2.

This post has been edited by roman: Dec 7, 2005 - 2:56 AM

[roman]

heres a pic looking inside the plenum.
note the factory velocity stacks.






A pic of the block. Look where the block bulges on the side closest to the camera, inbetween the 1st and second bores from the left... This is the oil gallery used to feed the VVTI mechanism


Crank caps

crank

crank2

picture of the head (Notice the cam angle sensor, down the left hand end of the intake cam (closest to the camera)

head pic 2
Note the solenoid or what ever on top of the head, near the RHS of the closest (intake) camshaft.

New piston


Here is a picture of the porting that has been done.
picutre of the porting


rods

valves


Here are some pics showing the VVTI mechanism.
Notice the oil feed holes on both the end of the camshaft, and inside the cam pulley. It uses oil pressure to rotate the camshaft relative to the pulley.

VVTI mechanism
Note the hole coming out the side of the cam shaft... There is one on the other side too.

VVTI mechanism
Note the corresponding oil gallery, on the inside of the cam pulley.

VVTI mechanism

And here's the car that it will be going into. (eventually!)



Its a 1990 JDM SW20, with the hard top, 5 speed, and gen 2 3sge powered.
It goes pretty well at the moment, as it is rather light. Its the bare basics model, pretty much.
So it should go pretty well with a fresh beams motor pushing it along.


Anyway, if there is anything that anyone would like to know, just let me know.

This post has been edited by roman: Dec 7, 2005 - 2:55 AM