good price for that engine. bare in mind a bare reverse head will cost in region of £3k alone, + valves, springs, caps, collets, guides, oversized buckets etc etc could have maybe £6 in the head alone + labour to build.
i was just looking through the other adds.....some silly prices for standard parts fair do's. one lad put a coscast head up for sale @ £275 and is going to put it up in the new year? wtf is he smoking?
yh i seen tha wtf!!
I have seen a coscast head do £400 on ebay.Originally Posted by philip
this is the problem..... common ignorance has elevated the coscast head to grail status....... its only the name of the foundry for god's sake..... cosworth sub stuff out like everyone else does...... the KS ones are apparently only good for propping doors open.... right... ks made complete heads and major engine components for loads of manufacturers.
The coscast process is far superior to average manufacturers casting, but its only something you're gonna notice if you're boring ports out and pressurising cylinders to breaking point, as that's the reason the cosworth casting process was created in the first place...
The main reason it was used is it was cheap, as you didn't scrap so many out of tolerance parts.
KS head is actually better IMO.
I assumed they were to the same dimensions etc but different casting processes? Geoff Goddard spent more time explaining the process than what they did with manufacturers contract work, but from what I understand there was no design work done, just moulds created from manufacturers design and the Cosworth casting process used?
people moaning about high prices,
i dont think its a problem, some one on there had some standard XE pistons, original ones for a "high" price.
if i needed some, i would rather buy his at the right price or over priced, knowing they had been looked after (hopefully) and treated right. rather then bunged into a box in the damp corner of someones shed.
p.s racers are always minted.
That gonna be about 230 Horses Colin?
BTW that swindon race engine ISN'T the highest spec N/A XE out there, ok it has a reverse head but even by their own admission there was no horse power gain from it.
it's pretty close to as good as you get out of something like that tbh, and it says 290-300 not 230. So it's a full late spec BTCC engine basically. Maximum power for a 2.0 NA like that without revving to 20k or something is 330-350 imo.
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