V6 Power

[Eric Storhok <alfa@domain.elided>]

This is an interesting subject, so I'll pipe in on my opinions...

Its interesting to hear the various ideas to make power, but I think it's 
quite possible to make 300hp from a N/A 3.0l.  BUT that will require 
rebuilds quite often.  For that matter, you might still be able to get the 
car with this in it- Richard Jemison's GT2 GTV6 race car.  He did a bunch 
of research for his engine, and did dyno the final product at 300hp.  VERY 
expensive, I'm sure.

But 300 hp on a turbo is much easier- heck, Jim Steck's 2.0l makes 350, and 
it's still alive (the trans isn't, however...).  Doing something similar 
would not be easy, but the hard part is in copying the manifolds on the 
Calloway.

Either way, you have to do machining (turbo- pistons, N/A- virtually 
everything), a new controller (no way Bosch will make terribly much), and 
an up-rated trans and driveline.   And since you have to re-ferbish 
everything, I think doing this on an aged engine isn't that bad- reading 
the Calloway article (thank you Martin!!!), even Reeves only machined the 
stock pistons down and it worked just fine.  Basically, it would be a very 
similar job that we did on the Challenge car, but with 2 more cylinders.

Once again, this was an option for later GRM Challenge, as Milano's were 
cheap, and '91 164's have 3.0l's that can be "adapted" to the 119 chassis.

Dang...  I can only IMAGINE how much fun 300hp in a Milano would be!  Not 
that I know much, yet, but I learn more about turbo's every day, so I'll 
try to answer some of the questions.  Making the manifold is not something 
I know much about....

Eric


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