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Technical Board => Modification Help => Topic started by: Wogboy on November 21, 2006, 05:06:14 AM



Title: help
Post by: Wogboy on November 21, 2006, 05:06:14 AM
i need help pleas..
what can i do to a 186 red Engine. to give it more power.
ive put a 303 dif on it.
i dont know what to put the gearbox..
maybe a 4 or 5 speed...
i just need some ides to get the best out of this engine..
i dont care what it is your ideas will be used..
thanks


Title: Re: help
Post by: RET on November 21, 2006, 05:58:36 AM
There are so many possibilities to answer such a question, but if you want more power out of the engine, you won't find it in changing the diff or the gear-box.

Assuming the engine you've got is in good nick and properly tuned, you can't go past a set of extractors and a look at the carby (either something bigger or tuning/jetting the one you've got).  Improve the breathing of the thing.

Then there is cam grind, dizzy regraph (and/or electronic ignition), head-shaving to increase compression, blue 12-port head transplant, super-charging, you name it.  Spend as much as you want.

All the bits have got to work with each other though; there's no one miracle cure.

I reckon the best place for you to start is Street Machine's Grunt Hunt series ($2).

Hope that helps.
RET