block

daewoomofo · Post by **daewoomofo** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 9:30 pm

the daewoo engine blocks arent aluminum, are they?

Audacity Racing · Post by **Audacity Racing** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 9:31 pm

cast iron

ubuyau · Post by **ubuyau** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 9:33 pm

Audacityracing wrote:cast iron

Yeah the head is what's aluminium.

--Tim

daewoomofo · Post by **daewoomofo** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 9:41 pm

good so it can take lots of power

thanks for the help

sk1nner

tango · Post by **tango** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 1:28 am

daewoomofo wrote:good so it can take lots of power

thanks for the help

sk1nner

No sir. The laws of Physics are NEVER that simple. Some of the most powerful engines known to man have aluminium blocks. What kind of power do you want to extract?

daewoomofo · Post by **daewoomofo** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 1:48 am

just dreamin of turbo, in the FAR distant future

Audacity Racing · Post by **Audacity Racing** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 5:10 am

the block will take way way way way way more than the internals will. worry about pistons, rods, and mains before the block

tango · Post by **tango** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 2:20 pm

daewoomofo wrote:just dreamin of turbo, in the FAR distant future

If this is your dream, then Audacity has it right. Worry about internal parts. If this is your dream then I would advise you to stop dreaming and start the ground work. Start saving up the money and start doing the research. PROPER research> Don't try to find a cheap way of doing things, it usually ends up causing problems either in solving problems or replacing parts. As I always say, there is NO such thing as free or cheap power. Do it properly once and be over with it.

daewoomofo · Post by **daewoomofo** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 3:47 pm

i was jut wonderin cause i have a honduh freind that bitches about his alumunim block and that he needs to have steel sleeves put in it and a block gerdle to safley turbo it, i know my engine will need to be rebuilt for a turbo but that is a plan for the FAR distant future, but for now i have to worry about the anto to manual tranny swap i will be doin when i get my parts from Agent Smith

tango · Post by **tango** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 11:10 am

Auto to manual? What for? The auto tranny in the Lanos is rated at a higher torque figure than the manual. It's good for 200lb-ft of torque. That said, not even the turbocharged C20LET from the Calibra/Cavalier/Vectra makes that amount of torque from the factory. I've seen heavily modified C20XEs that don't come up to that either (apparently as the power approaches 200hp the torque curve starts to flatten around 190lb-ft). So if you're worried about breaking the tranny, relax. You won't. GM built ya a good tranny...

daewoomofo · Post by **daewoomofo** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 10:13 pm

on my stock 1.6 dohc iv already smoked 1 trans , and mine is about to go again, im REALLY hard on my car, the manual has less stuff to go wrong with it, and is more fun to drive

MMamdouh · Post by **MMamdouh** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 10:18 pm

daewoomofo wrote: the manual has less stuff to go wrong with it, and is more fun to drive

you got that right.

MMamdouh

tango · Post by **tango** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 1:21 am

Pardon me if I don't think that being stuck in city traffic with a fidgety clutch is fun...pain aside, I can do without the distraction.