[Dimman]

Originally Posted by serialk11r

That's good to know, I guess a smaller engine should be quite easy? I hate CAD though, and screw FEA/CFD, I don't want to even bother learning those. Seems like a massive PITA.

The enticing thing about the 1NZ is the 90 pound (or something like that) weight reduction, for only 20hp less, but the stupid gearbox is only 5 speed. Even with the crappy 5 speed the fuel economy should be like 15% better, but 5 speeds suck.

Then I got this other idea, the 1NR comes with 6 speed standard, they'll eventually be bringing the 1NR over to the US (could be a long time considering they're still producing damn 1ZZs here to squeeze every last penny out of their tooling), hopefully with the 6 speed still there, and really hopefully with stop start still there. It's only 1.33L, but it's got a nice shortish stroke (hehe), 11.5 compression stock, and perhaps it can be bored 3mm to 1.44L. Shave the head so it becomes 13:1 compression, rev it out to 10k, maybe like 190hp? I'm dreaming.

I don't think I'd go for a Locost ever, the way I imagine this would go is I'd keep the car stock until something important blows, before that only easily reversible mods.

When I say Locost, I don't exactly mean the Lotus 7 clones. Built your own kit car for whatever crazy powertrain and aero you want.