Performance Questions. 16v CHEAP!

[brianm@earendel.org (Brian McGarvey)]

Brian,
You got me seriously interested, cause we have to buy a headgasket 
anyways. Tell me more about using a Cu headgasket. who to buy from etc.
Brian

On Sat, 8 Feb 2003, BoxOParts wrote:

> Yo yo yo
> 
> What about simply using a very thin copper reusable headgasket?
> 
> If you went with a 1.5mm gasket you could pick up 1 compression point I
> think.
> 
> 
> B
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: scirocco-l-admin@scirocco.org
> [mailto:scirocco-l-admin@scirocco.org] On Behalf Of Brian McGarvey
> Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2003 3:02 PM
> To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> Subject: Performance Questions. 16v CHEAP!
> 
> Ok.
> the GRM car is reaching the end of the budget train.
> We want to increase the compression (looking for 11.5:1 or 12:1)
> Choices:
> Deck snot out of head
> Deck snot out of block
>   We cant afford to do both. We'd like to raise the compression using 
> stock internal parts. this is a 2.0L 16v head and block. alternatively
> we 
> could do a 1.8 16v head. This is our last choice as that splits the
> spare 
> engine. And parts are required fro re-assembly.
> 
> If the budget allows from the above regrind of stock cams to a 272/268 
> profile. With the above modification and STOCK valvesprings will this 
> work? 
> 
> Is there a better combination
> Plan:
> 2.0L 16v, 11.5:1, 100HP n20 port injected, extra fuel injected via 2nd 
> fuel rail and custom EFI controller, extra water/alcohol injection same 
> method, and custom variable n2o injection controled the same way.
> Ignition 
> will be retarded/remapped under nitrous and normal operation for max hp.
> 
> Thanks for the help.
> 
> 
> 
> 

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