Eddpilkington Posted April 22, 2017 Share Posted April 22, 2017 Hi guys. New to forum. Interested in people's opinion / set up. Looking at doing an engine build for the classic. What are your views on open, semi closed, closed block and recommendations for brands for crank, rods and crowns. Ta Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidgy Posted April 22, 2017 Share Posted April 22, 2017 Very depends in aims and budget. Is it for road, track, race, drag use? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddpilkington Posted April 22, 2017 Author Share Posted April 22, 2017 Road and occasional track use. Would want to be in the 3-400bhp area. Engineer by trade so be self build other than owing few beers for the machining Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidgy Posted April 22, 2017 Share Posted April 22, 2017 Track use is a very different animal to road use, but if only occasional track then I'd go 2.5 myself. Standard block is find up to about 450and with the right supporting mods will be fine for odd tracks days. R3ason for the2.5 is it makes a great road engine, loads of low down grunt. I have acl race bearings, make piston, Manley rods. Superteck valve kit in version 5 heads and a gt2871r billet turbo. Plus whole heap supporting mods like front mount and 6 speed box. Currently run ing 398bhp and 465ftlb bit eventual target is 500bhp + Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddpilkington Posted April 22, 2017 Author Share Posted April 22, 2017 Nice. Cheers for the advice. It would mainly be road use with rare track day. What management you running with that set up? This is now the 9th scoob and the wife has told me not to get rid of it 😂 So planning out routes to take with regards engine. As the last one was running 390bhp and owner before had spent a lot on it. That was in the 2.0 block. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidgy Posted April 22, 2017 Share Posted April 22, 2017 Syvecs ecu, not the cheapest but by far the best. Haha I tried getting rid and got an m3 instead. Nice car seriously dull by comparison Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddpilkington Posted April 22, 2017 Author Share Posted April 22, 2017 Haha I went the same route, definitely not even close. The wife got me this one. Woke me up early on Sunday and said we are off to look at a scoob.... haven't got out of bed that fast for a long time 😂 The syvecs does look good on the specs and reviews. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay762 Posted April 23, 2017 Share Posted April 23, 2017 12 hours ago, Eddpilkington said: Haha I went the same route, definitely not even close. The wife got me this one. Woke me up early on Sunday and said we are off to look at a scoob.... haven't got out of bed that fast for a long time 😂 The syvecs does look good on the specs and reviews. Sounds like a keeper Agree with the 2.5 approach having low down grunt and as you are an engineer pinning the standard block to stop any potential sleeve movement would be a straight forward improvement Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
savage bulldogs Posted April 23, 2017 Share Posted April 23, 2017 Budget and driving style will have a part to play . The 2.5 has more torque and low down grunt but isn't as "revvy " as a 2ltr . I forged my 2ltr v1 sti cdb myself for under £1.8 k including beer tokens for a machine shop 😉 Rough guide to what I did on a low budget ..... Machine shop work ...Skim all surfaces, 0.5mm over bore, valves re cut ,crank ultrasoniclly cleaned, and all components chucked through his "hot wash" Standard ported v1 sti heads with new oe stem seals and relapped valves . Mahle pistons, Brian crower sport compact rods ,rcm uprated oil pump , cossie h.g's , arp headstuds and big end bolts , acl bearings , kevlar timing with full belt kit , full oe /group n gasket kit and new block bolts . I bought a second hand aps sr40 (u.s stock location gt28) for £200 and had most of the supporting mods already (fmic ,550'cc nismo injectors ect ) Once run in it made enough power to turn my 5 speed into a 4 speed (on a tdo5 16g) . Now runs the sr40 @ 359.9 hp coupled to a 6 speed conversion. I run apexi fc ecu and avcr (sub £500) second hand which is no where near syvec's capability but at a 1/4 of the cost it works well enough for me 😉 Sent from my SM-G900F using Tapatalk 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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