ohh... i had a friend with this engine plonked into a satria, then he got rid of it, and bought a perdana which apparently was another regret of his before he absolved all regrets by plonking in the 4g63t into that. let me warn you, more bad than good will come from this....
the maintanance of this thing is that of a perdana but you only get a tiny bit of power from it. fortunately alot of the other bits are the same as the perdana parts, Unfortunately, it means you pay perdana prices for a 1.6L. Some parts (cant remember which) were an absolute hell to cari and when you do, it costs an even bigger bomb.
sparkplugs are an absolute @#$%* to deal with (i have 1st hand exp here) and basically you have alot more parts to maintain (as you obviously already know)... and lets be honest, its not as easy to reliably squeeze power out of. these na 6aXX engines were not built to deal with alot of power like to rev and their power curve is very linear. Heck even the even the 6a12mivec which was built to do the job feels very linear, compared to the 'nivec' models basically has more top end power.
now if the idea is to get a bang for buck decent performance engine, this really isnt the way to go.
you stroke it, 6 pistons need to be replaced, you need to bore 6 holes. The last issue which may or may not put you off is the general available info/expertise with these engines. You can easily find ppl to squeeze power out of any of those 4 potters, but with this v6, forget off the shelf parts too, its either does not exist or will likely be obscenely expensive. You will have to retort to lots of custom work. If you turbocharge it, given its compression, i dont think you can gain much. will You're better off getting a 4g91 and boosting that. The dollar per horsepower gained ratio would be in favor of the 4 potters.
the maintanance of this thing is that of a perdana but you only get a tiny bit of power from it. fortunately alot of the other bits are the same as the perdana parts, Unfortunately, it means you pay perdana prices for a 1.6L. Some parts (cant remember which) were an absolute hell to cari and when you do, it costs an even bigger bomb.
sparkplugs are an absolute @#$%* to deal with (i have 1st hand exp here) and basically you have alot more parts to maintain (as you obviously already know)... and lets be honest, its not as easy to reliably squeeze power out of. these na 6aXX engines were not built to deal with alot of power like to rev and their power curve is very linear. Heck even the even the 6a12mivec which was built to do the job feels very linear, compared to the 'nivec' models basically has more top end power.
now if the idea is to get a bang for buck decent performance engine, this really isnt the way to go.
you stroke it, 6 pistons need to be replaced, you need to bore 6 holes. The last issue which may or may not put you off is the general available info/expertise with these engines. You can easily find ppl to squeeze power out of any of those 4 potters, but with this v6, forget off the shelf parts too, its either does not exist or will likely be obscenely expensive. You will have to retort to lots of custom work. If you turbocharge it, given its compression, i dont think you can gain much. will You're better off getting a 4g91 and boosting that. The dollar per horsepower gained ratio would be in favor of the 4 potters.
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