Winter rebuild
Discussion
Right folks, its time to break cover, I've alluded to it for a while, no, I'm not gay, well not very, I am however re-engining the Chimaera.
The RV8 has had a very distinguished career getting to the dizzy heights of F1, but these days its a bit long in the tooth, 300hp+ is expensive to achieve and even more expensive to achieve reliably. My solution to this is to drop in an Audi ABZ engine normally found in late 1990's vintage A8s.
The spec will be something roughly like
4172cc V8, power/torque target 325hp (flywheel) / 320lbft
Megasquirt ECU running launch control, flat shift and TC
Target cost £1000, budget £1200
So far I've spent £400 on the engine, £100 on the ECU and about £10 in fasteners and MDF to make the pattern for the bell housing adaptor, the other great expense will be custom exhaust manifolds. I've a thread covering the transplant running on another forum (sorry Haymarket) and as I'm inherently lazy I'm not going to duplicate things so the link is http://www.motorgeek.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=3...
Regards
Iain
The RV8 has had a very distinguished career getting to the dizzy heights of F1, but these days its a bit long in the tooth, 300hp+ is expensive to achieve and even more expensive to achieve reliably. My solution to this is to drop in an Audi ABZ engine normally found in late 1990's vintage A8s.
The spec will be something roughly like
4172cc V8, power/torque target 325hp (flywheel) / 320lbft
Megasquirt ECU running launch control, flat shift and TC
Target cost £1000, budget £1200
So far I've spent £400 on the engine, £100 on the ECU and about £10 in fasteners and MDF to make the pattern for the bell housing adaptor, the other great expense will be custom exhaust manifolds. I've a thread covering the transplant running on another forum (sorry Haymarket) and as I'm inherently lazy I'm not going to duplicate things so the link is http://www.motorgeek.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=3...
Regards
Iain
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