SilverStormAI

Special thanks go out to:

Dave at Henstead Motorsport
www.henstead-motorsport.co.uk/

Tim at Silverstorm Auto Improvements
www.silverstormai.com

Dave at ModernAutomotivePerformance
www.maperformance.com/

Kev at Rota Wheels
Frank and Carey at Midway Garage
Lee at SFS
Grant at GBE
Ian at Hayward and Scott
Dave at Gaz Shocks
Extreme PSi

All of whom to a Greater or lesser degree have helped greatly with this project with Quality products, advice and expertise, and could with yours!

Due to a piston ringland failiure (well, actually multiple ringland failiure) we asked around about who would be the best early Evo tuner/ builder. We were immediately told about Dave Green and the boys down at Henstead Motorsport near Norwich in Beccles. I approached Dave who has built dozens of tried and tested early 4G63 7 bolt engines for competition and road use to great success (including his own Yellow Peril 10 second Evo 3. Dave is an incredibly friendly, fair and helpful chap, i was immediately filled with confidence with what they could do for me, you also seem to get a real sense that Dave does not want you to spend money you dont need to, and likes to simplify as much as possible.

So the plan is on to build a circa 500hp car, with reliability (as much as you can) and driveability to boot. I dropped the car off and within half a day the engine waspulled out, and i had Wayne and Dave informing about progress and ideas.

So at the moment, the spec it is being built to is as follows:

Completely rebuilt engine top and bottom with all new pumps and belts and the following aftermarket improvements:

Block:

Balancer shaft removed
Wiseco forged pistons
Eagle H Beam forged Rods
Clevite bearings
Modified crank oil ways and bearings
ARP fasteners all round including head studs

Head:

HKS steel headgasket
Rebuilt head with standard ports and valves
Crower 272 cams
Crower adjustable cam pulleys
HKS uprated valves rpings
HKS steel headgasket
Powder coated cam cover

Exhaust and turbo:

DNP tubular manifold with T3 flange
Garrett GT3076R roller bearing turbo with .82 exhaust
Tial 44mm Wastegate
Hayward and Scott 3" exhaust from the turbo back with twin silencers and decat pipe

Intake:

Forced performance 4" alloy intake
Cosworth or Apexi cotton cone filter
Toyo Front mount intercooler and hardpipe kit
SFS silicone hoses

Clutch and Flywheel:

Quatermaster twin plate clutch
Quatermaster billet lightened flywheel
Quatermaster release bearing and modified release fork

Fuelling and management:

Denso 720CC injectors (at this point)
Walbro 255 LPH fuel pump
Ostric ECU Emulator/ Launch Control Live mapped by Dave
Gizzmo Electronic boost controller

Small update:
Block has been machined, bored and honed and chemically cleaned. All the head has been rebuilt with HKS valve springs, new seals, cleaned as much as poss, and fitted with the Crower 272 Stage 2 cams. Also gotten the crower adjustable pulleys. All the belts, pumps , fasteners and bearing are now with us too, the rods and pistons and the new intercooler trial fitted. Hope you enjoy the pics. Ongoing thanks to Dave and Wayne at Henstead, the best service at a tuners ive had in 10 years of messing about with cars.