Post #14
pete_rallye wrote:Looks really nice but i think 241bhp is hugely optimistic. I had almost exactly the same set up a while back except with lumpier cams (piper 285h's), ported head, jenvey 45's and the 285's and it just scraped 200bhp. Admittedly it was a 'hi'flowheads engine but still. My touring car ran 240bhp with extensive head porting, cams, full steel bottom end etc etc
I have no reason to doubt the rollers it was mapped on were that much out, recenlty we had a rolling road day with the psooc at the same place where a standard 205 mi16 had 160 bhp, a 205 mi16 with a catcams had 167 bhp, another 205 2.0 8v turbo running 0.5 bar of boost had about 150 bhp (i cannot remember exact) all these power figures seem perfectly reasonable.
I have drove many 205's with all kinds of engine configurations and i can definately say this one is by far the most powerful yet!
it wasnt just a case of us slapping some jenveys and an ecu on, the engine was completely rebuilt, lightened/balanced, the head heavily skimmed, even the inlet manifold was smoothed out after it came from jenvey. All the best possible parts our budget would strech to were used.
The whole build so far has cost around