Well, having had my engine swapped a few months back I'm now wanting to tinker with it. I've decided to shelf the re-spray till winter time and I won't be driving the car anyway and look at some mild mods to the BEAMS.
I'm currently running the stock engine and air box with HKS panel filter, de-cat and stainless exhaust.
I'm overdue delivery now of an imported SARD induction kit through Sumopower, and have spoken to Dastek recently about fitting a chip and putting it on the rolling road to set-up the lot properly. Hopefully the chip will take care of air/fuel issues and the CAMCON VVT-i controller won't be required but that remains to be seen. Apparently there are issues with VVT-i induction kits due to the location oif the air flow sensor so having spoken to a few folk, the SARD one seemed the safest bet.
Dastek reckon something between +5-10% is realistic with more pull mid-range (which is really what I'm after rather than anything top end). That would possibly see up to 10-20Bhp. But we'll wait and see about that. I changed my mind about going down the Link ECU route as the cost doesn't justify it for these mods.
...that puts it a bit closer to rev 1 turbo power and it has the same gearbox ratio's I believe from another posting regarding maximum speed in each gear.
Hopefully soon I'll have some dyno results to post. I appear to be a bit of a guinea pig with this engine (just going to have to try it) so I'll make sure I post on any positive results.
Richard
[Mk2] [NA] Next mods....
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Re: [Mk2] [NA] Next mods....
oooh nice, im surprised this hasnt got more comments, your car looks great
i was just wondering though... are you going for the magical 200bhp N/A?
i was just wondering though.
.. are you going for the magical 200bhp N/A?Re: [Mk2] [NA] Next mods....
Yes.
I've not dyno'd so not going to quote hard and fast figures but Toyota tuned the BEAMS (stock) to 197/198Bhp so with a de-cat and stainless, maybe it's there according to the paperwork). Engine's from a '97 though so it'll be lower than that I expect as it's got 65,000 miles on it.
If I can get 210-220Bhp from it I'll be very very happy indeed as there's a few other things that can be done without doing internals. Otherwise I'll settle for 200Bhp unless a dyno run comes up well short, then I'll be happy enough with a "before" and "after" driving feel.
Anything more than that and it's Turbo time but I'm trying to stay away from that as far as I can. Rogue are working on something along the turbo route at the moment.
Richard
I've not dyno'd so not going to quote hard and fast figures but Toyota tuned the BEAMS (stock) to 197/198Bhp so with a de-cat and stainless, maybe it's there according to the paperwork). Engine's from a '97 though so it'll be lower than that I expect as it's got 65,000 miles on it.
If I can get 210-220Bhp from it I'll be very very happy indeed as there's a few other things that can be done without doing internals. Otherwise I'll settle for 200Bhp unless a dyno run comes up well short, then I'll be happy enough with a "before" and "after" driving feel.
Anything more than that and it's Turbo time but I'm trying to stay away from that as far as I can. Rogue are working on something along the turbo route at the moment.
Richard