Thread: recipe for 245+ whp on 2.0

id say

good headwork
custom intake manifold
custom 4-1 header
high comp pistons
custom cams
good intake 3" or 3.5"
3" exhaust
some good tuning

This has been done in NZ with a 2,080cc VE but you aren't going to like how you go about it. From what I've been able to glean... and yes it could run on 98 RON biofuel.

88mm piston
massive headwork with oversized (I think 2mm) valves
Custom cams using single profile (no vvl) & modified rockers.
balanced, lightened & blueprinted engine - lotsa fussiness.
custom header, not sure about the intake.

IIRC it made 317 crank hp... could've been 319 but it was close to 320 anyway.

Don't the FS4 cams spin and make power to something like 9600rpm?

Well im thinking budget build. But yes you will need to take the motor apart, do head work, up the CR, and race fuel.


In other words mad $$$$$$

So in other words it was a modified SR20DE since it has no vvl.

That's kinda like the crazy cams they make for hondas called VTEC Killer Cams

No. The VE has a superior head. It's not only about the VVL. You can't do with a DE head what you can with a VE head even if you take VVL out of the equation.

I know the "V" in VE stands for VVL and the "D" in DE stands for DOHC but they never made a DE with a head that flows like the VE head, so they basically go hand-in-hand.

So you would have a fussy, hard to drive, impossible to smog, gotta rev the heck out of it to get your number, motor that breaks 245 on a stock sized bottom end. WHY??????

from what iv seen you carnt open the RR intake ports up very far as the hydrolic lifters protrude into the roof of the inlet.. where as there not there on the VVL heads.. but there not there on the N14 heads either are they?

can the DE head not be built to be as good as VE head, also with the addition of the VE oil pump?