For about eighteen months now I have been involved with a couple of engineers in developing a new cylinder head design for the K series engine. it utilises a different more efficient combustion chamber, with more radical porting. After months of work the prototype has been tested on the flow bench, with class leading results and has been dyno tested on the bench, and seems to do everything we intended if not more. Showing 145 bhp output using standard valves on an otherwise unmodified 1.8mpi running MEMS2.
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. I will be using it in various configurations but primarily the set up will be with a modified VVC intake manifold with increased volume and MEMS 3 using both 120 and 135 cams to get some idea of the drivability of both configurations.Finally it will be tested with my existing high lift cams and DTA ecu and mapped for absolute power to give a top line performance figure.
If all that goes according to plan we will be looking at putting them into production in the not too distant future. Would like to keep you all posted on developments over the coming weeks and months.
Chris