Darwantae951

It's a 16v engine with no expense spared, and has been in the works for a while.

Duke

They also have twice the amounts of cylinders and displacement so I guess they weren't doing so good after all

TX951

Talking NA - GM does with the LS series engines what Mercedes Benz does with AMG, but with half the valves, pushrods, and all for 25% of the cost.

Back to the topic - Beautiful engine Chris. Nice work. Did you make the headers yourself?

Chris White

The Chevy guys don't have a choice, we do!

Chris White

SFR stage 2 headers.

Duke

What on earth does GM engines have to do with this thread. Why even compare a V8 engine with more than twice the displacement with our 4 cyl engines..


Chris we want to see a chart, start plotting!

Voith

It is on account of stone age technology.


Nice engine Chris

Chris White

There is always bigger / better things to be built.....

86 951 Driver

No offense was supposed to be taken from my post. I see it was taken the wrong way. I was just stating that I am surprised that after such a long time not people are looking at the 16v head for our cars to make some badass builds.

I wasn't comparing the V8 to our 4cylinder turbo. Not my idea. I was just saying that it seems that some people can do fine with just 2v heads and still get good numbers from it. I just guess our community has reached the limits of the 8v head? I still want to know why porsche never used the 16v head with a turbo?

I like to see builds like this. I will never be able to afford much comprehend what has taken place but it is cool to look at.

Chris White

The 8v vs 16v discussion has been around for a while!
In reality the 8v head makes great midrange torque and with some quality porting it is a great performer. I usually recommend the 8v head for 99% of street and track projects.
The 16v head flows a lot better and has some serious potential for max power – but at the expense of low end performance. The 16v engines are an exercise in engineering and the never ending quest to make something cool! The RPM potential is way out there, 8k is quite possible and if you select a turbo to work at that range it would be a serious HP engine (800hp is quite doable). If you design it to make quality HP at 8k RPM it won’t make decent power until 5k rpm…not a good street solution and you would have to custom gear it to work on the track.

And, if nothing else, the 16v engines sound a lot better (to me anyway!) than the 8v engines.

Keithr726

Wow, nice work! I look forward to seeing more

mikey_audiogeek

Yep mondo coolosity factor!

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333pg333

Any reason for the secrecy of the owner?

David Floyd

It's mine














I wish

Chris White

No secrecy….its mine dammit. I have been building engines for all those pesky customers and not able to finish up my track engine for quite a while.

This one is mine…all mine…(I can hear the seagulls from ‘Finding Nemo’ echoing through my skull!!)