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lancia S4... no kidding man
is he using the lancia volumex, or using one of your Swedish twin screw AUtorotors? :y

btw seems good pricing on those vems ecus with wb included. First time I hear of them, but then I'm from Italy.

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I'm from the UK mate. Which engine is it, a C20LET?

BTW sweet Merc ;D

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Nah.
Daniel´s going turbo all the way.
Last time i checked he was full ahead at installing a GT40.

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Sweet Merc, those 2.3's are slow as death stock, it needs boost. Nice to hear they are robust as all hell... how much in common do they have with the non-16 2.3's?

Engine was a poor design. Not knowing anything about the turbo units, just going off stock/autocross lore from a couple friends that own them, I'd guess it's another oil pan mis-design problem. The ones that experience hard cornering have oil flow away from the pickup tube, and the air goes straight to the #2 main tearing holy hell out of the bottom end. I'd guess this al so happens under hard acceleration. They are dildo rides, owned by dildoes, nothing an engine swap won't fix if you feel up to cutting the vehicle to fit a transmission tunnel.

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KJ.
Yeah.Exactly.Also used in the formula Opel/Lotus(vauxhall/lotus) et al.

JD.
A lot i´d say.
Block,crank asf are direct swap.
That merc on their behalf claims to have changed half the motor is another story.
The crank in my engine for instance is from a regular 8V 132hp.
Main diff is the slugs and..for the early engines,the rods.
Slugs in the 16Vs(2,3s that is-there is a 2.5 as well)are forged Mahles to start with.
The early rods are shared with the same vintage 8Vs tho.

The Porsches..
What we´ve found over here is actually block shift.Guess it comes with the territory and aluminium blocked engines coupled with wet liners when boost starts to go towards the 2 bar range(divide by 0,068 tog et psi)
What´s more..the old 8V turbo engines wont flow if their lives depended on it.
All in all the "TOP" motor was a load of crap really..weak combustion chambers asf.
The 16Vs is a different story tho-altho they wont go much past 500 REAL ponies with any kind of endurance tho..due to the block being all over the place as power go up.

That is VERY much true.. :6

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Sounds like the 8v engines are fed too much timing, and high freq detonation sets in and shifts bores a la D-series.

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JD.
Maybe so.
What we´ve gathered on some high boost engines is that as boost level and power goes up the liners will start to "tremble" as they reach a certain frequenzy.
This in turn will make the liners of an aluminium block engine shift-as the forces involved aint no kiddin matter.

This to a given limit holds true for the cast counterpart.

Couple a yrs back we had a rally cross Volvo engine in the dyno cell.
Just a tad over 7 grand the ehxaust values started moving around like there was no tomorrow.
It stoped dead in its track as we used block filler.
Conclusion here has to be harmonics.

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Porsche sounds exactly like what happens to the Honda D16. Free floating liners?

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Sort of.Porsche´s got sort of a regular deck,buut....none the less.

The Volvo engine is detroit wonder metal tho.

What´s more,guess you´ve at least heard about block filler(to be used with cast iron blocks) and i´ve run em on the street for yrs.No coolig issues if one thinks it through.

This winter we´re getting into another project.
My 69 camaro pro-streeter with a boosted 495cid BBC.
..and of course the block of that engine indeed is filled.

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god i hate to sound like the negative nancy but you claimed the car went low 11's at 120ish? that car looks nowhere near that fast.....once again not trying to be negative! ------- love it very original!!!