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[Ted95]

hey guys, i was jw is there a difference between red top and black top beams? are they all the same engine with the same specs? is there a certain gen beams thats better then another or is there even different gen beams? lol and would it bult up on a 5s 5speed tranny? im guessing yes

[Edophus]

The blacktop beams is the best version of the beams, it has slightly more compression, larger valves and a higher volume oil pump and has a slightly higher redline as stock. But its configured for rwd so the water outlets different as is the headgasket and oilpickup/sump so these would need to be swapped, as would the intake and exhaust manifolds, all for redtop parts. The first problem you'd face putting it in a 6th gen is that the exhaust vvti controller wont clear the engine mount. Its so much extra work to swap in than just a redtop that you'd have to be mad to try it, like me i'm putting one into a 5th gen, but we dont have the problem of the engine mount clashing and i got my engine really cheap so its not any different to me having bought a redtop by the time i've swapped all the parts over.

This post has been edited by Edophus: Feb 9, 2010 - 11:59 AM