Would this head work on my engine?

[siren676]

I was talking to a cams specialist near home and they have a 4efte head which has had alot of work done to it, which has been sitting round for the last 3 years.

I am planning on getting it and fitting it to my last gen 4efe. They only want $1000nzd (~£480) for it.

The specs are as follows

-Head is ported

-pressure tested

-hardness tested

-has new valve seals

-seats cut

-valves cut

-surface ground

-re-profiled 272 cams

-valve clearances done

-new springs

Will this work on the standard ecu until i can afford an aftermarket one?

What sort of gains could i expect?

[Asad]

defo worth every penny that, give them £450 or even £400

rebuild the bottom end (optional but gives you piece of mind) and away you go i cant see the standard ECU not coping but mangement should be on the cards

as for gains who knows? ~130 at a guess

[Idrees]

Yeah I think it would be fine and it would work, but you'd see best gains only after a remap.

130bhp is VERY optimistic though imo. Stock FE is 74bhp so we're talking a ~56 bhp gain - that is very unlikely!

[siren676]

They were doing it on special for 480 to get rid of it, cant see them going any lower

Do you think it would be a good idea to put it on another engine? since mines done 236,000k's and im not sure how much life is left in it

Is you estimate at the fly or at the wheels?

[Asad]

iddy come on!! with just bolt on`s 90-95 is achievable thats 18-23bhp right there, now were talking more air in + fuel ok the low down drivebility might be abit shite but theres defo alot of gains to be had

Id go for it...rebuild the bottom end, run it in with the standard ECU.....mabe get a FPR + SAFCII for now then mabe better management

if you dont take it get me a shipping cost lol

[siren676]

So it might have a bit bad fuel economy untill the aftermartet ecu.

Seeing as mine is only doing 72hp atw it should have a noticeable gain. 2nd gear skids at drags (hopefully)

Ill get the setup once my bank account has recovered from getting the facelift glanza bumper from idrees.

What is involved in rebuilding the bottom end? I live within 5k's of an engine rebuilders so i may get a quote from him.

At this point i think i will have a go at getting as much power out of a 4efe as possible without forced induction or laughing gas (nitrous)

Cheers, Daniel

[ryan lang]

ask them how much they'd charge to do your bottom end dude?

[Guest Enzo]

They were doing it on special for 480 to get rid of it, cant see them going any lower

Do you think it would be a good idea to put it on another engine? since mines done 236,000k's and im not sure how much life is left in it

Is you estimate at the fly or at the wheels?

272 cams sound taisty, it will idle slightly lumpy on that, and power would be right up top.

you need to do it if you can, on a fhe bottom end it would rock

[siren676]

Haha i forgot about this.

After my engine swap i may look into doing this onto the 5efhe