Which make of damper / shock absorber to upgrade to?
Discussion
Hi Craig,
Yes like your K20 mine is very very quick,the engine suits the seven perfectly and sounds amazing, I'm sorry to say but the sound is very important to me, may well be the bike bike engine sounds, it has similar out puts as yours but are you running a 3.19 diff though? hands up those that run out of revs on long straights?
I've built k24 320bhp hondas, they are way too tall for the seven even dry sumped another 19mm or so, k20a2 heads work great on 2.4 bottom ends but going over bore on k20a2 blocks? I don't know to be honest, 180 lb ft is about the max for a N/A honda without spending megga bucks, and I do all my own work. Supercharging?? I don't think anyone has put the latest TVS Eaton on a K20 yet here in the UK, they mostly use the old Jacksons or the Rotrex something that can give circa 350 but they have intercooling issues and lots of heat soak issues and suffer from holding the boost at high RPM. At the moment charger is on the engine, charge cooler fits under the nose cone charge cooler pipes all fit, belt run sorted, just plumbing an extra water radiator in and gearbox oilcooler.
The reason, I like a challenge and I had the supercharger, a very tall diff ratio which I don't want to change plus I've just about tamed 260/180 and want more, a lot more!!!
Yes like your K20 mine is very very quick,the engine suits the seven perfectly and sounds amazing, I'm sorry to say but the sound is very important to me, may well be the bike bike engine sounds, it has similar out puts as yours but are you running a 3.19 diff though? hands up those that run out of revs on long straights?
I've built k24 320bhp hondas, they are way too tall for the seven even dry sumped another 19mm or so, k20a2 heads work great on 2.4 bottom ends but going over bore on k20a2 blocks? I don't know to be honest, 180 lb ft is about the max for a N/A honda without spending megga bucks, and I do all my own work. Supercharging?? I don't think anyone has put the latest TVS Eaton on a K20 yet here in the UK, they mostly use the old Jacksons or the Rotrex something that can give circa 350 but they have intercooling issues and lots of heat soak issues and suffer from holding the boost at high RPM. At the moment charger is on the engine, charge cooler fits under the nose cone charge cooler pipes all fit, belt run sorted, just plumbing an extra water radiator in and gearbox oilcooler.
The reason, I like a challenge and I had the supercharger, a very tall diff ratio which I don't want to change plus I've just about tamed 260/180 and want more, a lot more!!!
nigelpugh7 said:
No probe for the Hijack!! 
Would love to see some pictures of your 7 with the Honda engine in too please?
Hi All, Have started a new link with sundance upgrades for this season titled Honda K20 Super Light R Build. We are currently just putting the finishing touches to the engine build but will update the thread as it comes along. Cheers, TerryWould love to see some pictures of your 7 with the Honda engine in too please?
In my race series, we are limited to OEM Bilstein. Myself and another racer were fortunate to have accumulated a fairly large selection of dampers which we sent to Simon who then dyno'd them. There was not a 'bad damper' in the batch, with all the plot traces looking similar shape, but there was a difference in the forces required. Simon matched the dampers to make their relative performance as close as possible. We have then fitted the best sets to the cars.
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