Smart Way To Make 225kw?

[zebra]

what older generation LS engines...they came out in the mid 90's

[scathing]

They fail especially the older generation LS engines, they are about as technological as a dinosaur. Let's get excited over making big power from a 1,000,000 litre v8!

Its about as "exciting" as cramming more air into the intake with a hairdryer.

Lets get excited over shoving 2-3 atmospheres worth of air because we can't make power efficiently from just 1.

[R33_Dude]

Power is power. None of this "only milk comes in five litres" crap.

Fact is that greater cubic capacity = more power potential.

Building a 500 HP N/A V8 is a piece of piss.

Why do mercedes/bmw/audi/nissan/lamborghini/ferrari/alfa and any other car manufacturer you care to name increase the size of their engines when looking for power? Because size DOES matter. There are ways of engineering yourself out of the capacity problem but the same methods are just as easily applied to larger capacity engines.

[N-DAWG]

Power is power. None of this "only milk comes in five litres" crap.

Fact is that greater cubic capacity = more power potential.

Building a 500 HP N/A V8 is a piece of piss.

Why do mercedes/bmw/audi/nissan/lamborghini/ferrari/alfa and any other car manufacturer you care to name increase the size of their engines when looking for power? Because size DOES matter. There are ways of engineering yourself out of the capacity problem but the same methods are just as easily applied to larger capacity engines.

Milk comes in five litres? where are you buying your milk from?? loll sorry couldn't help it

[aphid]

rb25/30

14:1 comp ratio (I'm sure you can find an RB piston that would give you close to that:)

Methanol

New bearings, some sexy ARP rod bolts

Ross balancer

9000rpm

pl+11ty of ignition

it would probably last for a while if you didn't thrash the guts out of it.. it would be different and make for some very good times

[mick2nv]

Im also on my P's with an NA r33 GTS and the only thing im going to spend my money on is a good catback exhaust system, pod and small interior mods, then comes the r33 GTR (r34 GTR if im lucky).

[R33_Dude]

Milk comes in five litres? where are you buying your milk from?? loll sorry couldn't help it

Bah! You know exactly what I mean I don't pay attention to that crap haha

Edited June 23, 2009 by R33_Dude

[Birds]

225kw @ the fly is not an unachievable figure for the RB25DE. Even the C20XE from my Calibra has potential to reach 210kw...with alot of money. As has been said, even if you do get to that figure the car will not be suitable for daily driving, at all, for your power band will be between 4500rpm and 8000rpm. But you've learnt that from this thread anyway.

N-DAWG, if you are still on your P plates, why have you turbocharged your N/A and put yourself over the old power to weight restrictions? I'm pretty sure they still apply?

These engine arguments are always so stupid. Firstly, overhead cam technology is older than pushrod overhead valve, so the label "dinosaur" is stupid and somewhat ill-informed. V8 pushrods do their job efficiently because high RPM power output is not their job. Linear torque curve and reliability is. It's like saying an RB25 is not efficient because it can't make 400nm of torque at 1500rpm. They are different engines with different purposes. To refer to one as lesser, without specifying an application to use them in is ridiculous.