mitch82

11.5-1 comp, wade 800a cams, ported head, balanced rods and pistons, ecu = 103 rwkw @8800rpm.

I doubt you will get it to idle at all with the set up you are talking. 450" lift is stupid. Believe me, you are a kid with no experience, I have done what you are saying you will do 15 years ago when I was young and stupid. It wont work. Without DCOE Weber style carbs you are wasting your time, and it will also make your car go worse than the stock cam. If you are smart you will ring wade cams and get their advice and listen to what they have to say. They know their stuff. $160ish later you will have a cam that runs, has the lumpy idle you want and will make the car go. If you want a rotary, go get an rx7 and hang around with those idiots. Appreciate the corolla for what it is.

Wade 176

http://www.rollaclub.com/board/index.php?s...922#entry407682 I have this if you are interested in a swap for a corolla?

You say you don't know why people would spend this amount on a K series motor. What you don't realise is that there was not anything better around when these engines were developed as a race motor in their day. 4ages didn't exist, the only alternative was a Cosworth BDA but in clubman or formula 3 you couldn't use them. If you were lucky enough to race in a class that could use a Cosworth and you blew it up, you were better off walking in front of a truck. Most of the K series engines around now are used in historic racing and they have to use them!! Get the picture?

You can make this power out of a k motor but it will cost you a bit. I have built 3,4 and 5k's for racing clubmans. Alot of you young guys wouldn't know but these motors have been highly developed over a number of years for various racing classes in Australia. The clubman class has been around since the 70's in Australia. Yes they did use Datsun engines too but the Toyota ones were more reliable and more powerfull. Remember we are talking about a full race motor here. The last time we had a 3k on an engine dyno it put out 148hp at the flywheel. We have built many 4k's with around 75-80kw at the wheels. More than what a standard 4age has put out at the wheels. But there is a but to this story, you have to run 48mm webers, a 4 into 1 header with 1 and 5/8 diameter tube, a secret cam grind with over 300 degrees duration, stainless or titanium valves, forged rods, dry sump with an external oil pump, at least 12-1 compression with forged pistons, a custom crome moly flywheel with a borg an beck twin plate clutch...... and the list goes on. By the way they get revved to over 10000 rpm and would get rebuilt every 10 or so hours of racing. They got nicknamed the term hand grenades. So basically you could build one of these engines for about $10,000 from scratch. Luckily I have most of these parts lying around ready for my KE15 when I get it ready, but it will be a 4K, detuned with probarbly about 70kw at the wheels. Should be enough for some fun.

I have had a few of these apart over the years and I thought they were the same cranks in any block with 7 ribs. I also thought all the crank noses were the same too.