you obviously have no idea who oldschool is, or what he does
What a stupid statement!
I have seen who oldschool is and works for, remaping is just the modern take on rejetting carbs and altering the ignition timing and advance curve on a good old mechanical distributor, ecus just make it more accurate.
All i am saying is the only real way to get proper power gains is to get more air and fuel into the combustion chamber by use of free flow filters and a less restrictive inlet combined with a cam with more duration and higher lift (but not too much), then getting it out of the combustion chamber as quickly as possible by using the above mentioned cam and a free flow exhaust with a decent tubular manifold. More air and fuel in = more power. That is the way a four stroke engine always has and always will work.
Off the shelf cam makers the likes of Piper, Kent, Crane, Cat and C & B have been making cams for year some of them have even been around since the 60s so they do know what they are doing
It will be the same with the exhaust manufacturers Such as janspeed to name one they have been in the game for a fair few years as well so they also know what they are doing.
Manifold design will always be a comprimise in design as there are lots of different variables to take into account when designing one for a road car as due to how the gas flows through them, they only realy have one point in the rev range where they work at their peak due to how the sound and pressure pulses interact with each other where the primary pipes join into the secondary pipes and collector. so idealy the manifold will be designed to be at its peak when the car is just over half way in the revs near or on peak torque, as this will make the car nice to drive and you would not be continually chasing the redline just to get power.
And dave i would like you to name these ten tuners that were stood in a circle having a chat.
Believe me, I've seen rival engine builders, and one thing they don't do is compare notes....
Yazza54 If you were going to overbore to 1.8 you would just be better off transplanting a full 1.8 into your car as it would be a good bit cheaper than buying new pistons and getting all the work done on the block. Plus supersprint do a very nice ss manifold fo rthe 1.8 and it looks very cool
Or you could just go for forced induction as again more air fuel in = more power.
You could also change from a single throttle bodie to four motorbike bodies from say a yamaha R1 and run on a custom mapped ecu from the likes of emerald to name one of the companies that have been around for a bit now and know their stuff.
