We have the motor from our recently retired race car. It is an F22A1 with about 230,000 miles on it. The last 4000 are race miles. The motor burned oil but pulled us around the tracks without fail for 8 LeMons races. Since the motor in our new accord seems tighter, we will use that one. Which gives us the opportunity to rebuild the mill from the Minnow.
My primary goals are reasonable cost and high reliability. It would be awesome to end up with some modest power gains over an A6.
We already have an A6 computer, and the A4 header. I expect to either pull a head from a junkyard A6 or maybe get a Delta or web cam. I also plan to get a windage tray from an A6. We'll either find an H23 intake manifold, or settle for an A6 manifold. Of course those are all bolt on things that aren't so much about the rebuild.
I know there are nice gains over what we had just from a motor with tight valves and rings. Of course I fantasize about building something powerful and high revving, but money won't allow it, and reliability is super important, this is endurance not sprint racing. Still if we could have 160 crank horsepower we could hang with 80-90% of the cars.
It seems to me that the smart money would be spent on just doing the basics right. Maybe pay for the valve seats to be machined, the valves lapped, and cleanup the intake a bit.
This is totally in the imagining phase, who knows if it will happen at all. Any thoughts or suggestions?
My primary goals are reasonable cost and high reliability. It would be awesome to end up with some modest power gains over an A6.
We already have an A6 computer, and the A4 header. I expect to either pull a head from a junkyard A6 or maybe get a Delta or web cam. I also plan to get a windage tray from an A6. We'll either find an H23 intake manifold, or settle for an A6 manifold. Of course those are all bolt on things that aren't so much about the rebuild.
I know there are nice gains over what we had just from a motor with tight valves and rings. Of course I fantasize about building something powerful and high revving, but money won't allow it, and reliability is super important, this is endurance not sprint racing. Still if we could have 160 crank horsepower we could hang with 80-90% of the cars.
It seems to me that the smart money would be spent on just doing the basics right. Maybe pay for the valve seats to be machined, the valves lapped, and cleanup the intake a bit.
This is totally in the imagining phase, who knows if it will happen at all. Any thoughts or suggestions?
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