Motor is out and @ Caraid being stripped down and inspected. Leaving stock crank in. Replacing pistons, rods, valves, valve springs. Some porting. Leaving stock cams.
They've built a few beams motors, and common weak point is the bores. They had a motor that lasted two seasons as an enduro racer before spitting a bore, this was at 450-500rwhp.
Have decided to build my motor, and setup turbo, fuel etc for 500rwhp, but run it around 400rwhp. THis will be shit loads in the 86, and that will give me a fairly bullet proof setup. Weak point in the whole car will really be the stock altezza box.
Went and talked to Phil @ NZ EFI about E30/pump. His advice was to get it on the dyno, and see how it reacts on 98. If it turns out that getting to 400rwhp requires the timing be pulled back, then he'll go E30. I didn't realise that pulling timing back creates a lot of heat.
Simon @ SURFAB is about to start on the cage. Was only going to have one door bar that went down under the door handle on an angle, in an attempt in saving the entire door card. But after seeing the damage a side on impact can cause, have decided to take this inner door handle off and have a wishbone type bar setup. Will still have the door card, but not the inner handle.
Heres a vid of me at Ruapuna, just before xmas.