Originally Posted by
BIL N KEL
Hi one of my mates has just bought a mercury grey escort rst. It's been along time since I had an rst and was struggling to remember what's needed for 200bhp as this is his target power. The car apparently has a cam and was rr'd at 161bhp.
If the car was standard except for a stainless exhaust and K+N filter what else would be needed to achieve 200bhp.
On a funnier note, he was told by a young lad in town "i can fit you a front mount intercooler and turn the fuel pressure up it will be good for nearly 400bhp!" I was thinking of taking the cossie to him, surely if a 1.6cvh will make 400 bhp what would a 2.0yb make with his engine tuning skills
Any more than 160 will eventually start pulling the front end of they are not designed to take that sort of power. A friend of mine was running 260 after about 12 months the front chassis legs where both stress cracked were they meet the bulk head. If you want that sort of power just buy an Evo they are built to take it.