Originally Posted by
155lee
For 250bhp all you need is a turbo and a chip.not a chance.
My s2 had a bayjoo chip,mongoose exhaust,pro alloy front mount,uprated actuator,modified metering unit,Kent cam,low miles solid good running engine with correct compression,bleed valve instead of the Amal valve and that made 194 bhp atw on Ava's dyno back in 2005.
I asked why other rs turbos with an exhaust and chip were claiming to be well over 200 bhp and was told simply "they are lying" and my engine was putting out really good power for essentially a standard engine and if I wanted more it would be a zvh or something apart from a 1.6 cvh with standard internals.
If anybody's 1.6 cvh with a turbo and chip are making dyno figures of over 200 bhp then the dyno needs calibrated.
That's not what I said....
His target BHP is 200-250, a .36/50 will do 230bhp at a push so bang in the middle of what he wants, a stock cam will happily do that as will stock ports, pistons, rods, etc, he already has an intercooler and I assumed an exhaust as that goes without saying along with an air filter.
He asked what he
needed for his new engine build... that is all he
needs.
An old engine with literally just a chip and bigger turbo will be lucky to make 160bhp as the intercooler will hold it back
