Kirin - when it comes to engine design, you get about as much help as if you asked what oil is the best? There are a million different ways you can go.
My expertise lays in building engines for busses. I learned stock valves on larger displacement engines make wonderful low end torque. If you're building for RPM and racing, then you going down a whole different path. Having a forged counter-weighted crank will be a must. Lightened flywheel gets a snappier response to the wheels with less interia being stored. I really don't think you can build an engine that is reliable in the long term and still be able to get away with a lot of clutch dropping and hot-rodding. If you just wanted driveability and didn't care about showing off, I'd still say build the engine for torque. You get nice get up and go, keeps up with traffic, keeps the temps down, lasts a long time. Once you want the engine to turn RPMs to make power, you drastically increase the wear cycles on the engine and reliability goes down. I think the old recipe is: FAST RELIABLE CHEAP...now pick any two and there ya go. You can't have all three. Let us know what you decide to do! NQ _______________________________________________ vintagvw site list [email protected] http://lists.sjsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/vintagvw
