9a how much power???

Took my raddo in today as my 9a is ready to be slotted in, what power should i expect with following mods? Bottom end fully rebuilt, crank ground and polished, lightened fly wheel, sachs sporting clutch fitted and whole lot balanced, bores honed and new rings fitted. head fully ported and polished, new bronze valve guides, cams reprofiled to as near as poss to schrick 276s spec, flowed throttle bodie and manifolds matched to head, new tapets. new bk ur7dt plugs. Engine has been done by ex vw motorsport mech and he seams to know it inside out, as for fueling he will modify my metering fuel dist and do a wur mod. phew! any ideas please???!!!
Edited by: sambo

 

If you're reprofiling the standard cams then you can't get the same lift as the real Schrick ones. With true Schricks you're looking at 200BHP.

So I'd say about 190BHP.

Joe

 

mind if I ask how much you paid for the cams and who reground them?

 

Lads at workshop sent them away to be done, not sure but will ask em and i'l pm you on monday. They'r based in preston, lancs but u could always mail them

 

That sounds like a top spec engine, I'm not too far from Preston and would like a 9a for my Mk2 Golf. Did you supply the engine yourself and they fixed it up or what?

Roughly what would it cost to get a 9a to that spec at this workshop (if you don't mind me asking!)? I would fit it myself

 

I'd agree with Joe, about 190bhp

If Newman do the cams, they can get 10.2mm lift out of a KR cam (stock lift is 9.6mm) Pukka Schricks are 11.2mm
Edited by: G_V_K

 

Got the engine my self from scrapy, didn know the history so got the whole lot done properly. Thats with new big ends , new shells and so on. So far i'v paid him bout 13 hundred quid but thats for everything: all parts like clutch, balancing all other new parts and course fitting em, flowed head and all bits needed like valve guides and course cams reprofiled. Honestly the lads are tops and charges go by pounds, not hundreds! If someone can trust them with 120 k of rally audi quatro, the genuin all carbon and kevlar racer so can i with my rado! fully recomended.

 

How much is a cam re-grind? Autosprint in birmingham (used to advertise in C&CC) will do top spec for like 150 squid.

Wouldn't mind some for when I re-build my engine to 2 litre 16v

Jai

 

regrind cost me 200, will find out who done it and post it here

 

Sounds like they were done by Newman cams, they charge 175+ vat for a pair

http://www.newman-cams.com/
Edited by: G_V_K

 

Any advice for runing the engine in? some say no more than 4k revs some say floor it from day 1! who s rite?

 

I always say, "who's got to pay for it, if you rag it from day one then it last 5 minutes?"

I'd say take it easy* for 1000 miles, get the oil changed then a session on the rollers to optimise fuelling and ignition

*Don't labour the engine but also don't rag it, avoid letting it idle too long also.
Edited by: G_V_K

 

G.V.K........ u r a good man! thats exactly what i thought.

 

Don't forget to break the cam in first, before you go running the engine in...... 20 mins at 2-3k in the driveway.

 

Now that i didnt know but im sure lads in workshop will do that. cheers anyway! does any1 know how much of a crazy idea is to fit bike throttle bodies on it?!

 

Not that crazy..... a few on the VWvortex have done it.

 

there is a full set of bodies ,injectors and all wiring going for sale on e-bay for resonable dough, just curious if good idea buying it? maybe pug gti loom and manifold would have them runing?!

 

That engine would be great on t/b's but you'd need management for the best result. I agree with the 190BHP estimate too...

 

16V rolling road day results

 

Maybe i'l be joining you lot next time!