Well I did a quick search for beams related engines on this board.
Found some good info, thanks heaps to Pheonix for the great info re: part numbers etc, awesome.
Some of you may know me from whoring various other forums.
I've got two redtop engines now, one is rather standard, and from a celica.
It's got 30,000kms on it, and I picked it up for about $750 USD, with loom, ecu, sensors, etc.
Completely stock standard, in great condition. (This hasnt arrived yet... But I have purchased it)
My other engine has a little more history I suppose.
It's a redtop 3S from a 1998 SW20.
I bought it damaged, it had blown a piston from leaning out too much, combined with some high RPM action I would imagine.
As it was running an HKs fuel computer at the time. (Pic of blown piston below!)
So I've rebuilt it, with new factory pistons, rings, gaskets, belts, etc,
It's had a port and polished head;
I got the bottom end balanced;
TOMs extractors;
HKS intake pipe with Apexi pod filter on the end.
So this one has had a bit more spent on it, it owes me about $4k USD I suppose.
I've also got the gen 5 helical LSD gearbox, with a cusco cromoly flywheel and cusco 3 puck clutch/cover plate.
I'm putting this into a gen 1 hard top SW20, 'G' spec.
Which is quite light, approx. 1050kgs.
At the moment I'm pulling my 'grunty' one out, and putting the 'standard' one in instead. The grunty one is going to go back on the engine stand, and might get a few more goodies while it's there. (Which might be for a while)
I think having the ported head + balanced bottom end is not going to do much good without some cams and an increased rev limit, so I will investigate this while I have it out of the car over the next while.
It looks like a cam grind and a brashboy powerFC are the best ways to go about this, unless it is possible to get the Altezza powerFC working with it instead. (As it is about half the price! Redtop PFC is a modified Altezza one)
I got my motor installed, however I never got it going.
The cam timing was set up incorrectly, and had to pull the motor out to fix it. (Was backfiring out the intake... And it's impossible to even get the cam belt cover off the engine while it's in the car, as it's hard up against the strut tower!)
I've yet to find anyone that actually knows how to set up the timing properly, including a mechanic at toyota. It doesnt have the usual markings etc. to set it up. I thought I had it right originally, however I was obviously wrong.
I'm picking up my other engine from a friends workshop this week, and it will hopefully be in and running this weekend.
But I digress!
There seems to be a few people interested in this engine, as it isnt all that common I suppose, so I thought I'd post a few pics of the one that I rebuilt.
I havent been able to enjoy the fruits of my labour yet, actually my MR2 has been off the road since about December.
So it will be exciting to finally get it all up and running.
Anyway.
here are some pics.
