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Old 8th June 2010, 03:44 PM
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Default My engine Plans.

As some of you know I am putting aboat ancor of a 2.9 12V V6 in my lightweight car

These produce about 150BHP in good stock spec. Which aint bad for a roadster...

But I am a greedy little hector..

So over the last couple of weekls and a bit of ebay tasticness. and soem other purchasees..

I will have another 2.9.

It will have a piper 285 cam
It will have a superchip
It will have K'n'N's
And a less restrictive exhaust than mr ford blessed it with..

Hopefully this will produce somwhere around the 185 mark.

IF everything added up it would be more like 199, but I don't work in a perfect world liek some.

But it should be plenty

I am collecting 3 spare engines this weekend, which will give me a total of 5 to play with between the roadster and the TurboTechnics XR4x4...

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Old 8th June 2010, 04:33 PM
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Sounds the business TT.

I've just ordered some Piper 285 cams for mine and while i'm in the fitting process am going to polish the ports on the head while i'm at it.

So with 2.0l zetec + bike carbs + cams + polished ports + megajolt + high flow exhaust i'm going for 200hp......... maybe a bit optimistic but shouldn't be far off. July 9th trackday here we come...

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Old 8th June 2010, 05:58 PM
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I recon you will be close on the 200.


I am hoping that one side effect for me will be that the power/torque band will move up the rev range a bit, hopefully make it a bit easier to get rolling cleanly

I may try some head work, I will have enough spare

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200bhp is the stuff of dreams for me lol, whats a standard 1.8cvh chuck out?
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200bhp is the stuff of dreams for me lol, whats a standard 1.8cvh chuck out?
Mark has got 105hp, roaded, with his cvh on bike carbs megajolt - tis a well torquey low down engine to. More than enough to get started with before an easy zetec upgrade.

'tis a good engine the cvh......AndyH
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[threadjack] Yeah, I intend to go monster zetec once bored of cvh, and once the wife is bored of driving it lol [/threadjack]
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think the 1.8 cvh is 86 stock. from memory.

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Spud, I'll be very interested to hear how you get on with your Zetec. I too am running a 2.0L Zetec and i'm power hungry At this stage I plan to run it on bike throttle bodies (honda blackbird) and megasquirt - aiming for the 150-160 hp mark.

Will be good to have someone to pester who's already done it!!

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You are alittle more restricted with a V6 and may find that a 285 is a lot of cam, usualy the big V's take 1 cam lower compaired with a straight 4.
With the Pinto in a 7 a 285 is very streetable but will rev to 7000.
Any cam with more duration works better with more compression so some thinner gaskets will help but check valve to piston gap.
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