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What motor is this ?
Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2011 10:05 pm
by davetrees
It's in the GB wagon wreck I recently acquired. Obviously it's a belt-drive, and not original, but is it a Saturn ?
I couldn't see a "4G3x" in the usual spot near the starter (but it's pretty grungy down there). Seems to have "ZB-something" cast into the block on the exhaust side.
Do the bulges down the sides of the block house balance shafts or something ? Don't recall seeing anything similar before .... but I am totally unfamiliar with the belt-drive motors.
Re: What motor is this ?
Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2011 10:06 pm
by astronturbo77
def a staurn, looks like a 4g32b out of a sigma, with balance shafts...?
Re: What motor is this ?
Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2011 11:24 pm
by A112H
Definately a GE Sigma 1600
Re: What motor is this ?
Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2011 11:59 pm
by davetrees
Thanks for that.
Anyone interested in it ? It's no use to me ......
Re: What motor is this ?
Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2011 2:39 pm
by Mr Aerospace
Am I mistaken that this would be the 4G32 GS engine? Might pay to get the pistons out and even the guts of the dizzy if it is...
Re: What motor is this ?
Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2011 3:45 pm
by davetrees
Nope, its the engine that's in the GB wagon.
The block of one of the 2 GSR motors has ended up as the basis of Steve Ashton's new rally engine (athough I have the pistons - he's running some massive overbore I believe) and the other one I will be pulling from the old rally car this weekend.
Re: What motor is this ?
Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2011 4:59 pm
by Nath76LA
What car is Steve Ashton running these days?
I remember watching him compete in his VR4 when I was a kid many years ago.
Re: What motor is this ?
Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2011 6:15 pm
by davetrees
What car is Steve Ashton running these days?
Steve & Ro are running a GA Galant ...
virtually identical to Dinta & Kate Officer's car ...
and Simon Crane from Lovells has one too !
Both Dinta's & Steve's cars are bored & stroked about as far as you can take a 4G32 (Historic regs require using original block & head). Serious bits of kit ....
Re: What motor is this ?
Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2011 9:03 pm
by Nath76LA
Glad to hear that Dinta and Steve are still rallying. Both are very quick drivers.
Re: What motor is this ?
Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2011 9:30 pm
by davetrees
They both pretty much run only in HRA events, plus events like the Classic Outback Trial & the like. The rest of us have trouble getting anywhere near them !
Re: What motor is this ?
Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2011 5:38 am
by shuggy
Had the same block markings on my 4g32b that came out if my fwd 85 colt hatch. Converted it to rwd and it went hard. Leaked a lot tho