348/409 Motor

[Verne_Frantz]

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Verne,

Unlike the later MK1V passenger and truck engines being different from each other, w/ the W motors can't you mount external passenger car parts like intakes, waterpumps etc to the truck engines even though they're lower in performance internally?.


~ Pete

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Yep! You can bolt any passenger car stuff (including Z-11 if you wanted to) onto a truck block. You're still dealing with low compression and there's NO way around it unless you weld up the fly-cut wedges.
Remember, W motors have flat head surfaces, ie: no combustion chambers in the heads (except for 13cc around the valves). The combustion chamber is in the block above the cylinder bore. IT's a 16deg wedge between the top of the piston and the head.

Verne





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