AshDVS
When you're ready, we can now provide a really good rear end solution for it too, which would get you down to the ride height you may want, provide a heap of adjustment and have a very good ride.
Not insanely expensive, but certainly more than the cost of a couple of discs for the angle grinder.
Drop me an email about it if you're genuinely interested.
Vee_Que
What about the cost of some good springs? Which is about $450.
AshDVS
Definitely doable too. What shocks are you using at the moment?
Vee_Que
Currently, shite, they have the car on the road and don't leak, I know the bilstiens are considered too hard for the rates, i do want to improve it, but its not horrific, and there are other priorities before making it handle better. the steering box is a bigger issue, they are all worn out at this point.
egads (she/her)
Electric box conversion?
Vee_Que
thats only assistance, still uses the stock box.
Vee_Que
Today at flemington, Volvo club annual car show.
Been fiddling with the webers, one damaged float has upset the whole lot, but I also blanked off the cold start jets now as I don't use them anyway.
deleted_user_160
There we go. A couple of quality shots.
AshDVS
The best pics I've seen of it.
Looks great!
Is that a paint chip on the RH edge of the bonnet (to the left of the V) or just some sort of random tree/plant pollen/leaf. Hopefully not a chip!
Whats left on the 'to do' list?
Vee_Que
Yep, it is a chip. Paint isn't exactly perfect.
To do is still a long list, but for me it's not important stuff. Currently concentrating on the tuning of the webers, been chasing everything inside it, blocking off cold start tubes, changed the auxiliary venturi, replacing a float that took on fuel this week etc.
AshDVS
Ah that sucks. Were you going to send it back to the painter for some touch ups anyway?
Vee_Que
When it gets another bonnet and gaurd, I will be fixing it as my Buddy has given up painting. You get that using school friends with a weekend job. I'm not stressed. The car drives and it will gain stonechips anyway.
Vee_Que
Did a dyno day, three runs, best was the first one. It didn't sound like it went full throttle, but it is running rich on the mains, needs to go down a size again, or I need to advance the timing. Will think about it next week.
Makes peak power at 5200rpm or so, which the button dyno confirms. Other na cars life Honda integra type r's made 85-95kws, an xr6t made 200kws, wouldn't hold a gear/lockup.
Needs a much bigger cam!
deleted_user_160
Significantly down on what we were guestimating.
Though some power could be hidden in the overfueling?
Vee_Que
It's happened before, if I got it to 13afrs it would probably gain 10hp. But still. Small cam. Remember a b20e with efi and the same cam, makes 130hp at the engine.
1971_144GL
Hi, I have not had the time to read your thread yet to see what you have built, but this image is what I got for a B20 by doing a careful rebuild and applying period rsport changes like drilled lifters. The engine has twin su carbs with standard needles and the mixture is wrong. Need dyno access. The other mistake I made was using a thick head gasket to avoid pre ignition, but compression is costing performance now. I am looking at building another engine soon, so I will be able to document details this time around. I think that I could get more out of the engine if I looked for it, as this build was about a very well put together reliable engine rather than outright performance. Pistons are +40 and the cam I had ground was for a broad low starting power band as I only use my car on the road. Hopefully this diagram helps your project. Cheers.
Rick122S
I would have thought about 20kw down at least on what it should be. A stock b20e would be making about 70rwkw?
Vee_Que
This has a careful rebuild, balanced crank and pistons and rods, also 40' over pistons, 8 bolt lightened flywheel, enlarged exhaust ports, enlarged combustion chambers with bigger exhaust valves, as well as double valve springs, to which I've machined the head down to bring the compression up to 10.4:1, with .38' of squish with a b20E head gasket, which are pictured in this thread, which i recommend you read.
I want more compression from it, but it means happening when I get a bigger camshaft with more then 7mm of lift in it.
Stock b20E would not be making 70rwkw from what I've seen, more like 50rwkws, a b23E in good condition with a manual makes around 65-70rwkws with a K cam.
It is running a D cam which is quite a small grind. It is running twin dcoes and the AFRS say that they are rich when driving, it has a scorcher electronic dizzy and I have to adjust the accelerator pump as it runs lean on initial throttle then goes rich, chased down all the other issues with the floats and jetting and I know what needs to be done, I just thought I'd run the car on the dyno and see what it did. It is a tad disappointing, but I do know what I'm doing for the most part, having done research all last year, before building the motor etc. But currently am time and fund limited.
Did also find today now I've gone to fix my exhaust leak at the head, the exhaust ports are larger than the gasket and the headers. This will be remedied.
Rick122S
Well I thought 100kw at the engine would be about 70kw at the wheels. I wouldn't expect a 50% drop in power through the driveline.
bigal
Temped to take my stock B20E to the dyno now.
