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Type 4 Store 2270, Type 4 Store 2270 |
lexatola |
Oct 18 2014, 12:08 AM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 10 Joined: 17-September 14 From: Woodinville, WA Member No.: 17,914 Region Association: Pacific Northwest |
I'm getting close to pulling the trigger on the 2270 engine kit from the Type 4 store. I'm curious if anyone knows what the difference between the kit and the Raby 2270 SR. I see they each have different HP specs. Do we think this is an actual difference or just a difference in written spec? Same cam? Same Heads? Curious if this kit can make better HP than 140? Headers? Other tested and ordained cam?
I'd appreciate any input based on experience, Best, Alex |
Dave_Darling |
Oct 21 2014, 09:46 AM
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914 Idiot Group: Members Posts: 14,990 Joined: 9-January 03 From: Silicon Valley / Kailua-Kona Member No.: 121 Region Association: Northern California |
Another factor is that the 911 and 356 performance builds are relatively common. The 911 because there have been a whole lot of them made over the years; the 356 because they've been around just about forever, and they have significant commonality with the Type I that was made by the millions. And quite a number of places have built each of those, making information easier to come by.
The real 914 performance builds are much less common, and have only been done by a handful of people. Some of them (read that: Jake) have put a lot of time, effort, and money into developing combinations that really work well together. They expect to be compensated for that, so they charge for the information. They have also had people read up on all the information they could find on those motors in public, and copy them. So they are doubly shy of publishing the "recipe" for their motors, because they know people will rip off their hard work. Yeah, I'd like it if I could just stop into the forum and find the "magic recipe" that would let me build a 180 HP 2.2 liter motor in my garage. But I'd be pretty unhappy if people like Jake stopped doing research into the Type IV because they couldn't make any money because nobody will buy their 200+ HP 2.3 liter Type IVs. --DD |
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