Low compression engine?

[hallsie]

I picked up some bits and pieces from a fella in a car park like you do (Hayley ribs me about it all the time, but strangely dosent complain, pehaps I should worry)
Anyway, back to the topic, I picked up some V8 inlet manifolds with trumpets and injectors, and 2 ECUs and plenum tops and got talking.

The guy has put a 5.0 V8 serp engine into an old shape Nissan Navara body, and by Fuc6 does it rumble!!

He is also after a 3.5 / 3.9 Low compression engine to rebuild and stick a turbo onto!

Anyone got one knocking about in their garage (Adam Quantrill..)

Hes also got a lovely Eldebrock 500 on the top of the V8, and a spare 500 eldebrock too, but I cant buy that ..... can I?

Stu

P.S, If anyone needs to borrow the bits above for fault finding, give me a shout.
Ill be sending one of the inlets and plenums to Blingziga for when he is bored!!

[mrzigazaga]

hallsie said:

Ill be sending one of the inlets and plenums to Blingziga for when he is bored!!

You could bring them along to a sausage meet, Weathers nice for saturday at Danson park....

[hallsie]

Ill be dressed as a US Warrant officer from WW2 at GOODWOOD REVIVAL this weekend mate, and next weekend Ill be mostly drinking to forget that I am 40!!

Ill catch up soon though!

Stu

[mrzigazaga]

Ok..Cool..Have a good one mate..Plenty of pics....Ziga

[barrington]

I said you like dressing up :-)

[Dogmanandy]

Hallsie - I'd be interested in the 500 if you still have the guys contact details - i'm converting to carb
Andy

[adam quantrill]

I have an SDi 3.5l engine in the barn gathering dust.

As I have recently extracted another spare, the SDi engine is for sale. It was running when extracted and sounded fine.

It's carburetted so is less suitable for Wedges anyways.

[hallsie]

I dont suppose you know what the compression ratio on it is?

Stu

[adam quantrill]

Standard for the SDi is 9.75:1 as I recall. Suitable for mild boost up to 5 psi, or you can add thicker head gaskets for higher boost.

[Brap_Brap]

I would think that with a massive intercooler 12 to 15psi can be done without predetination. I know someone with a 10.5:1 rx-8 and he's running 15psi. And he hasn't blown his apex seals out his tailpipe... yet.

[adam quantrill]

Yes OK if you have a modern ECU and ignition with a knock sensor then it will retard/advance as necessary, and you can get away with more boost, I was assuming Lucas the Prince of Darkness and his Distributor of Death ;^)

[Oz2]

adam quantrill said:

Yes OK if you have a modern ECU and ignition with a knock sensor then it will retard/advance as necessary, and you can get away with more boost, I was assuming Lucas the Prince of Darkness and his Distributor of Death ;^)

So you could up the boost by upgrading the ecu and leaving the engine as is?

[Brap_Brap]

You could replace LUCASfer altogether. Haltech's come with their own sensors and all the other things you need... ie: loom, software, laptop port etc. http://www.haltech.com/