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until last week I had a 155 000km LCR with a BAM motor, stock K04 and pushed it fairly hard up some mountains. Then BIG white smoke cloud in the mirror then after a couple second the rods broke and pushed a hole in the block on the side and bottom. Oil all over turbo and heat insulation, caught fire. Flames up between engine and firewall... Luckily I managed to pull some house-vans over and nicked their fire extinguishers. Needed to empty two large ones to stop the fire... What caused the initial failure (smoke cloud) remain an unanswered Q.
Now to the fun part. I wanna build a stronger engine. Have found some clean low mile AGU motors (top and block, with and without ancillaries) and I want to use my BAM ECU and loom on this block. I know the AGU is a 9.5:1 CR, no VVT Still I hope to get some opinions here to make sure this will work...
I plan to forge the AGU motor with a rod/piston kit and either go for 9:1 or 8.5:1 CR. Opinions?
Get list for the AGU motor:
1-GT3071R .64ar or GT3076R .64ar on a T3 manifold external 38mm wastegate
2-Rods and piston kit. 9:1 or 8.5:1? on a stock 81mm bore
3-SEM intake manifold with a R32 throttlebody
4-DP and TIP piping I have no idea where to get... help?
5-keep the BAM MAF for now, its brand new.
6-can I reuse my BAM coils, alternator, AC compressor?
7-630cc injectors
8-All controlled by my BAM ECU on a BT Unitronic 630cc file. Ill keep the N75 in the loop.
- would I need a performance valvetrain? Plan to run +/- 400bhp on this engine.
Other parts I believe I need:
-Spec stage 3 clutch 550NM
-Stiffer engine mounts
-Wavetrac LSD
Obviously I don't know too much about this setup as I've never done this before. My biggest worrie is the mix of my BAM ECU/loom on a AGU engine...
I greatly appreciate comments from those of you who have gone down this road before.
until last week I had a 155 000km LCR with a BAM motor, stock K04 and pushed it fairly hard up some mountains. Then BIG white smoke cloud in the mirror then after a couple second the rods broke and pushed a hole in the block on the side and bottom. Oil all over turbo and heat insulation, caught fire. Flames up between engine and firewall... Luckily I managed to pull some house-vans over and nicked their fire extinguishers. Needed to empty two large ones to stop the fire... What caused the initial failure (smoke cloud) remain an unanswered Q.
Now to the fun part. I wanna build a stronger engine. Have found some clean low mile AGU motors (top and block, with and without ancillaries) and I want to use my BAM ECU and loom on this block. I know the AGU is a 9.5:1 CR, no VVT Still I hope to get some opinions here to make sure this will work...
I plan to forge the AGU motor with a rod/piston kit and either go for 9:1 or 8.5:1 CR. Opinions?
Get list for the AGU motor:
1-GT3071R .64ar or GT3076R .64ar on a T3 manifold external 38mm wastegate
2-Rods and piston kit. 9:1 or 8.5:1? on a stock 81mm bore
3-SEM intake manifold with a R32 throttlebody
4-DP and TIP piping I have no idea where to get... help?
5-keep the BAM MAF for now, its brand new.
6-can I reuse my BAM coils, alternator, AC compressor?
7-630cc injectors
8-All controlled by my BAM ECU on a BT Unitronic 630cc file. Ill keep the N75 in the loop.
- would I need a performance valvetrain? Plan to run +/- 400bhp on this engine.
Other parts I believe I need:
-Spec stage 3 clutch 550NM
-Stiffer engine mounts
-Wavetrac LSD
Obviously I don't know too much about this setup as I've never done this before. My biggest worrie is the mix of my BAM ECU/loom on a AGU engine...
I greatly appreciate comments from those of you who have gone down this road before.
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