I'll be documenting things fairly soon here, but after waiting 4 1/2 months, our new fully built motor showed up today. It's been a bit of a struggle getting it, as we were supposed to have it right around Christmas, and here it is now March 6th and it finally got to us.
In any case, it should be a very nice upgrade. We'll get it all installed, do some tuning and take it back to the dyno to confirm what kind of improvement we have ended up with.
We'll be deleting some of the emissions equipment with the install of this new engine, so watch for more information on that. Going bye bye are the PCV valve and system, as well as the EGR system. The engine builder is supplying block off plates/plugs for those systems along with a catch can system.
Also on the agenda is switching over to E85 (in a strict sense of the numbers, it would be 85% ethanol and 15% gas.) For the most part this should be pretty simple as the stock injectors theoretically have enough headroom to flow the higher amount of fuel needed when running E85. That just leaves getting the tuning done for the higher flow. Because E85 burns cooler than straight gas, timing can be run more aggressively without worrying about detonation. It effectively is as if it was a super high octane race gas, but the beauty is that E85 is significantly less expensive.
I'll try to get some good pictures this weekend to post.
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