Hi all,


Since the Escort engine has about 170.000miles on the clock it was almost time for a rebuild and after having problems with oil loss (all oil gone in 30miles) i was looking out for options...

First i've spoken to cossiedavid (David Pritchard), who gave me a very good feeling as Dave is a top man with a lot of knowledge

One of the other options that came to mind is Oppliger Motorsport in Italy.. Since i wanted more power, and i allready baught the Oppliger gearbox.. this was the better option as Oppliger could have the whole project for him (engine + gearbox)

After discussing what could be made of my rebuild engine, Romain Oppliger sent a trailer over to Belgium to pick my cossie up and bring it back to Oppliger HQ

Here it arrived in Italy





A few mods and specs:

Long studs
Bore block
Forged pistons
Ported head
Cams
Pulleys
Bigger inlet manifold
Twinscroll manifold & external wastegate
Custom uprated oil pump
Oil breather
ACL trimetallic bearings
Polish crack
850cc injectors
GTX3076
Mapped by Oppliger + ALS

They are also fitting the AP 6-paddle clutch and Oppliger gearkit in my gearbox wich should cope with all the power.

Romain said we should see about 480bhp in low boost and 520bhp in high boost with this setup. Even tough the GTX3076 can do more.. i guess with more boost there will be more surge
So let's see what this baby can push

I am really looking forward to the result as i have much faith in this big company in Europe.

Once i get some info or updates from Romain i will update here.

Cheers, Melvin

 

sounds like it will be a fantastic motor when you get it back

out of interest what was the spec/bhp on this before it had the work done?

 

A brief history..

I bought the car with an MSD stage 2 chip in it (260bhp)

A few years later i upgraded it to the MSD 380+ package wich containts the 55lb black siemens, uprated fuelpump, and new chip.
At 1.7 bar it made about 350-360bhp.

That's the setup it has now but switching into Oppliger's engine spec (+500bhp with the 850cc injectors & GTX3076)

 

that will be like night and day a complete different animal

bet you cant wait drive it for the first time

 

Will be a animal when its done.

 

I'm sure it will! Really looking forward to the result as it is very important for me to have a very fast road car..

I do a lot of dragraces here (mainly starting from 2nd gear), there is a big underground scene where i live and to be a part of it you have to have something quite fast

So i'll hope a cossie with +500bhp and eventually at 1200kg give me some nice races.

The gtx30 turbo is good for quick spool AND high end power so that's nice too.

 

Dont forget to add plenty of videos then! Your cossie is amazing, cool color.

 

Will do!

Here's one in my previous setup, against a highly tuned BMW M3E36 with about 350bhp:


I was boosting about 1.8bar there with the original T34

 

Cant beat Oppliger customer service wise choice

 

Brian

 

Will be nice to see it when done.

 

So, the only update so far is we are probably going for the EFR8374... and the supra diff is in the pocket

It's because next year i'm going for 600+ (more 650)...
And for now, i'm keeping the original ECU (P8), budgetwise, can't go for another management..

So i THINK the engine will run low boost 530-540 with the EFR8374.. But i'm worried about lag then..

Have to talk about this with Romain..
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Don't worry about lag. It is a much better turbo that a gtx.

Mark

 

That sounds good Mark.

It's just weird that a turbo that can push 700+ performance also very good at 500bhp...

 

Engine update pics:

 

Pictures link didn't work.. fixed

 

Ready to go in

 

WOW!!! love it lethal weapon

 

Thanx mate

 

Looking really well.

 

Any updates?

 

Car is "ready" but not good enough.

Oppliger made 520hp and 480lbft on the dyno but wants to change the backhouse of the turbo to 1.05 external gated.
Now it was 0.92 internal gated..

So we could make more power (ą550hp)

 

I know a good cameraman in Belgium!!!

 

Yess the best hahahahah

 

How have you found the EFR? Any dyno graphs?

 

573hp and about 500lbft

 

Nice mate how does it feel

 

Just watched the vid on romains fb sounds awesome mate what gear kit do you run oppligger big tooth?

 

Thanx!!

It's the oppliger semi-helicoil gearkit..

Don't really know if it's big tooth.. Just 15° helicoil tooth and standard ratio.


ITS A MENTAL car now, almost shit my pants the first time i floored in 2nd gear haha!

 

Seen a few vids of it on Facebook sounds a weapon

 

Thanx!! it is fast, but 500+ hp is really common this days haha

 

Lol at shit your pants its to slow if you dont my friend in belgium has seen your car i will come hunt you when i visit what is your engine spec pistons/rods ect sounds very responsive we need an action vid now

 

Who is your friend?

Yes please come by haha

Engine spec...

10 long studs
forged pistons
ported head
custom cams
Haert inlet manifold
EFR7670 twinscroll 1.05 external wg
custom uprated oil pump
acl trimetallic bearings
polished crack
870 injectors
arp bolts for rods and flywheel
double valve springs
mechanical followers
rebuild head
2 maps, 102ron and 98ron

 

My mates names thierry drives a black audi big tall guy with a bold head lol says hes seen the car around in geel? Im going for very similar spec to you should be good race for cash or log books? Lol

 

Log books is fine hahahah