Originally Posted by Rush
Dawie has been experimenting for years with different conrods. First he used the BMW M3 conrods and now Pauter. As far as i know, he has built 3 full race engines......one for the USA, UK and our one. He's never had any failure with one of them. If Pauter conrods are good enough to handle the power from turbo cars, then it's more than adequate for NA cars
Its what i heard, thats all, i wasn't desputing anything else! Apparently theres more than just 3 of his engines in the world 3.7 or 3.8... (talk to other Alfa specialists in U.k, its them who told me what iam telling you here about reliability issues)
Its compression and stretching the rods have to cope with, not as the ricer age tuners call "power"
(ie this fuel pump is adequate for 500bhp? what kind of descriptive statement do you call that tosh
so what happens if the engine is 16ltr making 500bhp?)
Remember, iam not desputing the car here, it IS awsome, but the engine bay is a mess and 440 bhp is NOT alot bearing in mind the engine is nearly a 4 LITRE therefore it doesn't really impress
Rant over
