perksy Posted March 8, 2009 Posted March 8, 2009 He did the head design for the Ilmor Mercedes Indy car engine, then the Sauber Mercedes then the Maclaren Mercedes. He left Ilmor when FIA started restricting power/max revs of F1 cars. Fair Play Sounds like He knows abit about Cylinder heads then Quote
PeP Posted March 8, 2009 Posted March 8, 2009 He did the head design for the Ilmor Mercedes Indy car engine, then the Sauber Mercedes then the Maclaren Mercedes. He left Ilmor when FIA started restricting power/max revs of F1 cars. Try googling Ulimate Performance, uk websites, and look for cad/cam porting. Serious heritage, for my engine top-end at least! Sounds very expensive. Have you won the lottery Quote
stephenh Posted March 8, 2009 Posted March 8, 2009 He did the head design for the Ilmor Mercedes Indy car engine, then the Sauber Mercedes then the Maclaren Mercedes. He left Ilmor when FIA started restricting power/max revs of F1 cars. Try googling Ulimate Performance, uk websites, and look for cad/cam porting. Serious heritage, for my engine top-end at least! Sounds very expensive. Have you won the lottery The prices are not excessive, comparable to other premium items, so his cams are comparable in price to Kent cams, and his head work is done on your own head, turned round quite quickly, and at very reasonable prices. eg £995 for the duratec 2 litre engine. He is just north of Northampton, so very convenient to Troy Robinson. Troy recommends him, and is happy to rebuild the engine using Simon's head cams and valve springs. Quote
stu999 Posted March 8, 2009 Posted March 8, 2009 Or fit a heavy breathing 150k Redtop and break the 200bhp barrier (@ Northampton Motorsport) Surely not using standard head, cams, pistons and rods, Stu? The point about the duratec is that we're talking about engines which are standard, apart from throttle bodies ecu and lightweight flywheel. Get the head gasflowed, and some decent camshafts, and larger bore freeflowing exhaust and then see what a duratec will achieve and still be perfectly drivable on the road. You can come for a ride in mine when its finished Stu! Yup, as others have said Stephen, it was totally standard. Something which I couldn't actually confirm 'hand-on-heart', because, other than the ARP bolts, it went straight from the donor car and into the current home. Until last weekend that is, when I took the engine out, and stripped it into it's component pieces. A sad day TBH In theory the replacement should be better still (a mere 32,000 miles), but in reality it probably won't be a patch on the 'old' motor. But hopefully the engine swap will save me a fortune on oil Quote
stephenh Posted March 9, 2009 Posted March 9, 2009 Sorry Cleggy, we've rather gone off your orig topic. I dont think Westfield make ant specific claim as to the power output of the 2.0 ltr. engine in their "standard" spec do they, or maybe I'm forgetting something? Quote
Neil_M Posted June 16, 2009 Posted June 16, 2009 If its of help with anyone I run a Fiesta ST, as you know it has the duratec. While its not completely relevant for power figures, as there are some big restrictions in the airbox and exhaust system. The removal of these / replacement with better designed bits of kit, an ecu tweak see's around 170-175 brake. A few more with a full exhaust system and cams. This follows in line with the Mountune 185 kit available for the Fiesta from Ford. There is also the option of using the 2.3 bottom end from the Ranger. Quote
Cleggy the Spyder Man Posted June 16, 2009 Author Posted June 16, 2009 blimey thought this post was dead and buried Quote
Bean Posted June 16, 2009 Posted June 16, 2009 So, a standard Duratec produces no more power than a standard XE Interesting Quote
RobC Posted June 16, 2009 Posted June 16, 2009 Not duratec related however: Simon gets my vote too... Achieved 205hp out of my Zetec with head work and pocketed pistons done by Simon... with 285 cams and subs re-build by Troy Quote
JeffC Posted June 16, 2009 Posted June 16, 2009 So, a standard Duratec produces no more power than a standard XE Interesting and most modern diesel cars have power than both of them on my Duratec Caterham I saw a difference of 45bhp between 2 rolling roads Quote
Cleggy the Spyder Man Posted June 16, 2009 Author Posted June 16, 2009 So, a standard Duratec produces no more power than a standard XE Interesting hehe ... but a duratec does not weight as much as a baby elephant Quote
Bean Posted June 16, 2009 Posted June 16, 2009 So, a standard Duratec produces no more power than a standard XE Interesting hehe ... but a duratec does not weight as much as a baby elephant True, but the weight of babies can vary considerably. Just put my elephant on the scale and he weighs 75KG, he's only 20" tall mind. Quote
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