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]

Higher compression ratio gives you better economy, and also more power!

However the downside is that the higher the compression ratio, the higher the octane of gas that you need to use.

The highest compression ratio that you would really want to run on high octane pump gas (98 octane) would be 11:1 or maybe 11.5:1, 12:1 if you are brave.

You would have to run a 13:1 compression ratio engine on race gas, or it would destroy itself very very quickly.