My 1274cc turbo v8 flatplane
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Re: My 1274cc turbo v8 flatplane
At ca 450 hp per liter that's quite respectable, you should write the specifics, and also the tech year and cost because obsiously power increases with time and cost.
Froma price / performance point of view, my tip is that in this performance range it might as well be V6 turbo. Like you I started out by building V8s because of the much sturdier bore strike ratio, but for such small displacements as yours there isn't really an advantage. The extra cost for 8 cylinders outweighs the extra quality a V6 needs on the engine block. For a V6 I need +5. sometimes up to +10, provided I want to push out every last hp possible from the engine. Whereas a V8 aways costs a lot more than a V6, a few quality points are not a problem. You should just avoid getting over +10 for the engine block because those last points are extremely expensive.
Froma price / performance point of view, my tip is that in this performance range it might as well be V6 turbo. Like you I started out by building V8s because of the much sturdier bore strike ratio, but for such small displacements as yours there isn't really an advantage. The extra cost for 8 cylinders outweighs the extra quality a V6 needs on the engine block. For a V6 I need +5. sometimes up to +10, provided I want to push out every last hp possible from the engine. Whereas a V8 aways costs a lot more than a V6, a few quality points are not a problem. You should just avoid getting over +10 for the engine block because those last points are extremely expensive.
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Re: My 1274cc turbo v8 flatplane
BurningBridges wrote:At ca 450 hp per liter that's quite respectable, you should write the specifics, and also the tech year and cost because obsiously power increases with time and cost.
Froma price / performance point of view, my tip is that in this performance range it might as well be V6 turbo. Like you I started out by building V8s because of the much sturdier bore strike ratio, but for such small displacements as yours there isn't really an advantage. The extra cost for 8 cylinders outweighs the extra quality a V6 needs on the engine block. For a V6 I need +5. sometimes up to +10, provided I want to push out every last hp possible from the engine. Whereas a V8 aways costs a lot more than a V6, a few quality points are not a problem. You should just avoid getting over +10 for the engine block because those last points are extremely expensive.
Is there a cost limit for random engines now?
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Re: My 1274cc turbo v8 flatplane
What I mean is you can always get more power by making it more expensive.
So what I try is to make it cheap first and then get more power.
This is also important for the competitions which limit costs.
So what I try is to make it cheap first and then get more power.
This is also important for the competitions which limit costs.
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Re: My 1274cc turbo v8 flatplane
BurningBridges wrote:What I mean is you can always get more power by making it more expensive.
So what I try is to make it cheap first and then get more power.
This is also important for the competitions which limit costs.
Is this a Competition?
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Re: My 1274cc turbo v8 flatplane
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Re: My 1274cc turbo v8 flatplane
Ne nur das örtliche.
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Re: My 1274cc turbo v8 flatplane
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