cheekychimp
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I searched for the thread but I can't find it. I'm just interested to look at it again because I picked up a 2WD Galant in the UK and I have had a couple of discussions since then with members about the various NA Galant engines. The car has a 80hp 1.8 carb 8 valve SOHC 4G37 engine in it at present. To be honest it is fine for what I bought it for (i.e. cheap reliable family transport when I'm back in the UK so I don't need to drop cash on a hire car) and is surprisingly fun to drive. That said it has only widened my eyes as to how awesome a daily driver the AMG Galants must have been.
If you think about it the 175HP AMG Galant engine was pretty hardcore for it's time and given the lower parasitic loss of the 2WD drivetrain I imagine it was closer in performance to the early JDM VR4s (220HP) and even closer in performance to a stock USDM VR4 (195HP) than most of us give it credit for.
After researching the AMG heads and cyclone manifolds a bit more, I was struck with a strange thought. If you got hold of an AMG Cyclone and AMG head then bolted them onto a 2.4 4G64 (G4CS) block, could you get more than 175HP out of it? With the AMG head being good for an extra 500 rpms it seems like a really cheap and extremely fun engine for a 2WD car with far more potential than the 1.8 and 2.0 litre GTI engines. If you are reading this Rich, this is licensing and insurance issues aside. But what would it need to make it work? (ECU, harness, injectors etc)
If you think about it the 175HP AMG Galant engine was pretty hardcore for it's time and given the lower parasitic loss of the 2WD drivetrain I imagine it was closer in performance to the early JDM VR4s (220HP) and even closer in performance to a stock USDM VR4 (195HP) than most of us give it credit for.
After researching the AMG heads and cyclone manifolds a bit more, I was struck with a strange thought. If you got hold of an AMG Cyclone and AMG head then bolted them onto a 2.4 4G64 (G4CS) block, could you get more than 175HP out of it? With the AMG head being good for an extra 500 rpms it seems like a really cheap and extremely fun engine for a 2WD car with far more potential than the 1.8 and 2.0 litre GTI engines. If you are reading this Rich, this is licensing and insurance issues aside. But what would it need to make it work? (ECU, harness, injectors etc)
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