Found this an interesting read, was suprised by the Power/weight figures, always fancied the celica engine, didn't realise it would be so heavy.

which interesting read is that then?

Ahh, that would be this one

http://www.sandsmuseum.com/cars/elise/thecar/engine/kingk.html


Originally posted by smart51
which interesting read is that then?

This has promoted a lot of very heated debate on a number of forums.

To sumaries,

people claim some of his statements about other engines are incorrect - this has led to people questioning his statements about the K.

Some of the statements about the K might be subject to 'marketing'. For example the crank supplied by company X was very unbalanced. People questioned if company X supplied a bare crank or a balanced crank.

Some of the statements really upset people who have got vested interests which disagreed with what he's written.

There is a lot of positive written about 1 balancing company which caused a few people to wonder if there was a link.

The conculsion seemed to be that everything he's written makes good sense in the context its written. Everything he's said should be checked when building a K in a road car.

Is he right or wrong, no idea, just giving a summary of 10 pages of discussion on an elise list.

(but for caterham installation the wisdom is the thermostat is in the right place as the cooling system is modified)

sure that this article appeared in Race Car Engineering a few months ago and suspect that it has been a copy/paste effort. same author?

will try and find the article later.

as for the through bolts, the boys at QED who tune these things use the original spec through bolts up to quite a high level of tuning!

That is the article to which you refer.

In the Elise and indeed Libra and MGF when the stat starts to open it gets a rush of cold water that then closes it. Then it opens again, then it closes etc.

I think stat on the top hose is best.....