KB Dyno VT Heads/Comp cams

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Umm. Not to discourage you, but 14# 1.7 liter KB can get 500 rwhp on stock heads and cams. Its been done before. The reason your only seeing 10-11pounds of boost is because your heads are ported. I believe Michael Kidd had the same problem with his. His heads were to ported and matching it with the kb 1.7 liter it was only seeing 9#. So he added nitrous. He also had cams.

I'm willing to bet if you put stock heads on that car and keep the same pulley a good dyno guy and your car would see the same numbers.

Josh
 
MustangLife said:
Umm. Not to discourage you, but 14# 1.7 liter KB can get 500 rwhp on stock heads and cams. Its been done before. The reason your only seeing 10-11pounds of boost is because your heads are ported. I believe Michael Kidd had the same problem with his. His heads were to ported and matching it with the kb 1.7 liter it was only seeing 9#. So he added nitrous. He also had cams.

I'm willing to bet if you put stock heads on that car and keep the same pulley a good dyno guy and your car would see the same numbers.

Josh
im sure you are discouraging him with your vast knowledge:nonono:, and for some reason I think he has a good tuner and doesnt need your advice


yellow jacket, nice numbers. do you have any more pics of your roll bar? where did you have it done and how much?
 
MustangLife said:
Umm. Not to discourage you, but 14# 1.7 liter KB can get 500 rwhp on stock heads and cams. Its been done before. The reason your only seeing 10-11pounds of boost is because your heads are ported. I believe Michael Kidd had the same problem with his. His heads were to ported and matching it with the kb 1.7 liter it was only seeing 9#. So he added nitrous. He also had cams.

I'm willing to bet if you put stock heads on that car and keep the same pulley a good dyno guy and your car would see the same numbers.

Josh

The benefit of ported heads and cams is making the same horsepower at lower boost. He would reap the real benefits of the heads and cams by changing the pulley to get back to 14#'s of boost and would be 550+ in the HP area.

IMO, running less boost and more cam and flow is easier on the engine.
 
MustangLife said:
Umm. Not to discourage you, but 14# 1.7 liter KB can get 500 rwhp on stock heads and cams. Its been done before. The reason your only seeing 10-11pounds of boost is because your heads are ported. I believe Michael Kidd had the same problem with his. His heads were to ported and matching it with the kb 1.7 liter it was only seeing 9#. So he added nitrous. He also had cams.

I'm willing to bet if you put stock heads on that car and keep the same pulley a good dyno guy and your car would see the same numbers.

Josh

Pump gas .. I would like to here of someone with their daily driver get 500 using the KB 1.7 with stock stuff. Some have tried and lost...

Yes but 500rwh on stock stuff was done with 100 octane race fuel plus a whole bunch of timing. (22 degrees all the way through) Not sure how long this would run. Would like to see someone take this configuration to the track and run it a few times. This is on the edge..

We got 500 with pump gas 93 octane... Conservative timing 14 degrees down low graduating to 22 up top. The cams flattened the hp line up top. Significant drop with stock cams..

Issue with KB is heat generated. Dyno looks great and AIT looks fine with a single 4th gear run.. Try it through all 4 gears...
 
Jackie Chan said:
im sure you are discouraging him with your vast knowledge:nonono:, and for some reason I think he has a good tuner and doesnt need your advice


yellow jacket, nice numbers. do you have any more pics of your roll bar? where did you have it done and how much?

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