Yeah I hear you there NQ. I think its kinda as subjective as asking what colour car is best haha..... At any rate heres my expectations. Realistically I won't drive this car that much every year. Its a nice weather driver and I bet I will be lucky to put a few thousand a year. So realistically even if I got 20k (miles not KM) out of a engine that would probably take me years. So realistically I'm wanting power, and reliability however I'm willing to put some decent coin into it. I don't want a "Swept the garage floor" Engine. I want something well balanced that works.
I'm kinda stuck on the 2 liter craze. I nearly bought a 68 with a mild 2165 and it was best described as a monster. I'm power hungry needless to say and considering the car will be getting realitively little use I am willing to sacrifice longetivity for power as inane as it seems. Hope that kinda clarifies what I'm looking for. ITs not a money is no object thing I just realize that building something of quality will cost something... I don't expect it to be free. -Kirin On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 4:29 PM, No Quarter <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ vintagvw site list [email protected] http://lists.sjsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/vintagvw
