New member - Freakynami from Adelaide

[freakynami]

Real first name: André
Location: Adelaide (North East)
Model: Nothing yet, looking at buying a 4B11 (and yes, I do mean the engine only)
Colour: Black of course
General interests: Building and designing
Current mods: None
Planned mods: Future upgrade to 4B11T
How you found out about ClubCJ: Goooooogle
..anything else you want to entertain us with: Here for information about the 4B11 and CVT. Considering using it in a kit car, the forums are always the best place to find great information

[D]

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always good to see another Adelaide member

[VRX_08]

Welcome! Been ages since we had a new SA member!

[turbogirl]

Welcome Andre!

[Rowlesy6]

Hey Welcome

[Kal777]

the engines are fairly good. easy to work on and cheap. if your looking into putting a turbo on the standard 4B11, i wouldnt bother. they dont have forged internals and run a compression ratio of 10:1 so anything more than 5-6 PSI seems to snap rods and slice the block open. better off getting the 4B11t out of a ralliart or evo if you want to turbo.

as for the CVT, its a good transmission providing you look after it, very quick off the mark. the down side to them is i would not run too much power through them as they will slip and die. they also lose about 15-20% of the engines power from the flywheel to the drive shafts.

[freakynami]

Thanks for the warm welcome

Thanks for the info Kalum, I had begun to get that impression thanks to this forum I gather that it is not just "add a turbo", I would imagine that once I get the kit car on the road and running, I could look at doing a complete conversion to an appropriate engine / trans combination - down the track.

I've been really impressed by the amount of information available on the 4B11, and it is sounding more promising than I originally thought

Good to hear some feedback on the CVT too! I haven't driven one at all, need to do a dealer test drive soon to get a seat of the pants feel for it.

[shamoo]

Heya
Welcome to the club. There's plenty if info on here, any questions just ask

[kay christensen]

welcome

[Metalstrix]

Welcome to the forum mate.

Just go Ralliart and u won't have to worry about the 4B11 etc

[blinklight]

Welcome André, just go the RA, you won't be disappointed

[SIX]

welcome , if u were intrested in the CVT go the 4B11 .... other wise as u are aware if you go the 4B11T u will be looking at a SST trans unless ur get an engine out of a Base model GSR evo x as a manual ??? depends on the transmission , personally i wouldnt turbo a CVT transmission

[Kal777]

so am i the only one who actually read his introduction? he is only interested in buying a second hand engine and gearbox... not buying a car >_<

[lantourismo]

so am i the only one who actually read his introduction? he is only interested in buying a second hand engine and gearbox... not buying a car >_<

Yeah mate, I had been wondering when someone would ask him that one

[lantourismo]

welcome , if u were intrested in the CVT go the 4B11 .... other wise as u are aware if you go the 4B11T u will be looking at a SST trans unless ur get an engine out of a Base model GSR evo x as a manual ??? depends on the transmission , personally i wouldnt turbo a CVT transmission

The cvt has power limitations