at idle the IAT is around 105* but on a cool night
it will drop into the high 60* low 70* boost seems
to cause a slight rise, but only a few degrees

I don't remember the ambient and IAT temps
differential, but this big Volvo intercooler does
an absolutely outstanding job of cooling off the
turbo air, this thing is huge, big enough for an
engine 3 times the size of a 1.6, or even bigger

Wild

Hey Wild
    Doesn't the large intercooler and long flow path give you alot of lag?

Zag

I don't think it does, lag is not really a
problem with a well matched turbo

at idle the IAT is around 105* but on a cool night
it will drop into the high 60* low 70* boost seems
to cause a slight rise, but only a few degrees

I was thinking "Wow, thats a lot more than I expected" and then I realised you are talking Fahrenheit, lol

Soo,Wild...you can do advanced motor math, but don't know to put a wind breaker and ear muffs on the front of your radiator when the outside weather is COLD AS HELL ? Did you remember to wear YOUR coat   I heard the weather was nice and sunny Moab 2004. Moab 2005 was a mixture of all Mother Nature had offer.

Anyway, I'll bring all my hard brainy stuff to you and you come to me for the really basic stuff. Sounds like a good trade to me.    

All I had on the Kick was a Bikini Top
and the Duster Cover, I didn't expect
it to be so cold, 2005 I went with the
full top, and an electric heater    Thanks
Nate and Heather for letting me plug in

Wild

Boy you guys pikin on "Wild"
    Wild with your Turbo, what c/ratio are you running and you mentioned at one point a specail cam. Any specs? What internal prep did you do? This is starting to intrigue me.

Zag

I used all stock internals, the only
mod is Stainless Exhaust Valves, I
had the cam reground by Engle cams
in Santa Monica Ca.  I don't remember
the specs, and I have moved twice since
never found the tag, so I don't know.

I asked the shop for a VW GTI grind, since
I know how those run, and he shows me the
cam profile of mine, and says there is a hump
in the profile on the Suzuki cam, ramping off of
the closing side, and that a Pinto cam was like
that. So I asked for a little more performance
but I still wanted to pass smog, and that's what
he gave me. So it's a Pinto performance profile
and there are lots of Pinto 2.3L engine grinds,
from mild to wild (no pun intended)  

CR is 9.1:1  I thought stock was 8.9:1, the next
build will be 16V forged pistons and I'm going to
mill the tops off for lower CR, should run like a banshee

so 16v pistions will fit and give more compression in an 8v? what kind of compression are we talkin? under 11:1?

No, I think the 16V pistons are a little lower
on an 8V engine, I'm swapping to a 16V
head as well, and milling the pistons for
lower compression, I'm going to have the
squish ring around the outside of the piston
milled off, I might even take off a little more
to reduce compression further.

The other thing that could be done would
be to have a set of custom forged rods made
in 5mm shorter length, but then I might be
tempted to stroke the motor and be back at higher
compression, 5mm shorter rod would give you
up to 10 mm stroke increase, which would be
about 1770cc with a stock bore, go out 1mm
on the bore and get a 1790cc engine  



Make a 1.8 from a 1.6 1590cc is the actual
displacement of out 1.6L engines, so it could be
done, but the crank has to be re-ballanced to work
right, but very doable

Wild

I got this link off Izook
http://tighecams.com.au/cars.htm

Kent Cams have cams for the 1ltr and 1.3Ltr engines but don't list the 1.6. They do list an alloy pulley for the 1.6 engine but don't say if its adjustable (probably is)

http://www.kentcams.com/index.htm

Its possible that the 1.3 and 1.6 cams are interchangeable, I think I read that somewhere.

I got this link off Izook
http://tighecams.com.au/cars.htm

That would be from me   Hopefully today or tomorrow I'll drive it and see how my new grind feels on my 16v then it will be off to a dyno when I get a chance to see what differences I can acheive with altering the cam(adjustable cam gear) and ignition timings.

That would be from me   Hopefully today or tomorrow I'll drive it and see how my new grind feels on my 16v then it will be off to a dyno when I get a chance to see what differences I can acheive with altering the cam(adjustable cam gear) and ignition timings.

I thought I recognised the name  

Sorry for taking so long to response Rhinoman, I've been real busy at work.
    The fwd cams physically fit the cylinder head but have no provision for runnin the distributor. You have to convert to a distributroless system like I did. (not a bad thing). But you can get the same profile ground onto a 1.6 core camshaft.
    Taking what you guys have all said about needing mid to low range torque I'd be real careful how much duration was added though.

Zag