Exciting Times

phil-hex;13395 wrote: well that sounds very interesting...........

Chris, you can have mine anytime as a test bed

Thanks for that Phil
Chris

Quicksilver;13346 wrote: I will in the next few weeks be fitting it to Silver Lady to see how it performs on the road, on an already heavily modified engine.

"Heavily modified engine" barley does the Silver Lady justice!... anyhow

just to chuck my 2 cents in

me and Quicksilver had a 40 odd minuet conversation yesterday and had a good old chin wag about this little project of his

As usual chris is far too modest for his own good... I don't want to mention to much about what we discussed as obviously this is his little baby but this head offers something very impressive for K-Series Tuners, it's not very often that a mod offers you big power gains AND improved performance so i can see this been a very popular mod if all goes well.

I would love to offer my car open as a test bed (i'd probably be ideal as my right foot rarely leaves the carpet and I'm not exactly gentle with Bucephalus!) however as most of you know i have forsaken the true path of K-Series Tuning! lol also mine is only a 1.6 lol



best of luck to Quicksilver and can't wait to get over to the workshop and see the head in all it's glory!

Latest news on the head is we have had it mounted with big valves and fitted it to a k series race engine with a hefty supercharger, good news is the head was still strutting its stuff at near 300 bhp without breathing restrictions. So as the saying goes jobs a good un. Three test heads have been cast and are being polished and built up while I write this so I think it likely that Silver Lady should be done in a couple of weeks. Will PM those who have offered to test probably by early August.
Chris

Quicksilver;14211 wrote: Latest news on the head is we have had it mounted with big valves and fitted it to a k series race engine with a hefty supercharger, good news is the head was still strutting its stuff at near 300 bhp without breathing restrictions. So as the saying goes jobs a good un. Three test heads have been cast and are being polished and built up while I write this so I think it likely that Silver Lady should be done in a couple of weeks. Will PM those who have offered to test probably by early August.
Chris

Sounds good, Chris. we missed you on the Bowland run!

David Aiketgate;14212 wrote: Sounds good, Chris. we missed you on the Bowland run!

Yes it was a shame,but sadly no way I was going to make it.
Chris

Well the first production head arrived last Thursday and it is planned that it will be fitted to Silver Lady next week. Adam came over to have a look and kept muttering stuff about wanting one as a piece of modern art. Iam fairly sure that he was wanting to have its children but thats Adam for you lol!
Anyway to be more serious for a moment, there will be a progress report and photos to follow soon
Chris

Quicksilver;14481 wrote: Well the first production head arrived last Thursday and it is planned that it will be fitted to Silver Lady next week. Adam came over to have a look and kept muttering stuff about wanting one as a piece of modern art. Iam fairly sure that he was wanting to have its children but thats Adam for you lol!
Anyway to be more serious for a moment, there will be a progress report and photos to follow soon
Chris

Pictures are good!

Quicksilver;14481 wrote: Adam came over to have a look and kept muttering stuff about wanting one as a piece of modern art. Iam fairly sure that he was wanting to have its children but thats Adam for you lol!

i shall mount it on a plinth or take it to bed! one or the other!

the head is quite clearly an exceptional pice of engineering, the valve clearances have clearly been engineered to the micron and the machine work is amazing

one thing is for sure, at this rate the silver lady wont need any oil in her.... my saliva will be lubrication enough!




hmm this thread is becoming dangerously pornographic!

Well the head is finally fitted and bedded in on the Silver Lady and the results are quite frankly awesome. Rolling road figures will follow soon, just cant stop driving for long enough to get round to it.
Chris

sounds good!!!!!
c'mon Chris lets have some figures........... then again maybe not as everyone will want one lol

Quicksilver;15487 wrote: Well the head is finally fitted and bedded in on the Silver Lady and the results are quite frankly awesome. Rolling road figures will follow soon, just cant stop driving for long enough to get round to it.
Chris

Sounds good Chris!
Looking forward to seeing the RR results.:yesnod:

ps You missed a good run out on Saturday.

phil-hex;15489 wrote: sounds good!!!!!
c'mon Chris lets have some figures........... then again maybe not as everyone will want one lol[/QUOTE
Can give you figures for a standard 1.8 mpi, with the new head a set of 135 cams, and 52mm throttle body, running standard mems -163bhp.
We will be taking orders soon
Chris