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Nic Barnes
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14th Dec 06 at 18:39   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
forgot to post this last night

was reading a copy of retro cars last night. had an article on the c20xe saying easiest way to 200bhp n/a blah blah blah

anyway, turns the page and there is a 20xe block, coscast stamped, looks different to all 20xe blocks ive seen, and ive never ever seen a coscast block. so, i did a bit of searching on the net, and found nothing.

the copy of retro cars has pics of the engine, coscast block with head, tb's etc all on it.
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what month?
Nic Barnes
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either this month or last month. recent mag as id never seen it at mates unit till a week ago
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Whats coscast?
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One of the companys that was made when Cosworth got chopped up. They do castings
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isnt coscast the type of casting. its doing without using oxygen so that it doesnt get air bubbles trapped in the casting so that it doesnt go purous #?
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No, it's the name of the company that makes the heads and blocks. They are cast in sand.
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no the heads are desingd by cossworth thats why they have cosscast stamped on them. they are better then the standard heads, they have a squared off sectin on the head and other differences. and dont go porous well as easly. they come on early redtop lets

[Edited on 14-12-2006 by k e l]
Nic Barnes
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i know about the coscast heads theyre equally as poor as the gm heads really

im just on about this coscast block i seen in retro cars

any info?
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didnt read the full thread untill after i write it opps i didnt know they did a coscast block will enquire know a few people who know pretty much everything there is to know about em and they have never mentioned owt. sure its not a missprint
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never seen a coscast block myself,the block shown in the article is a QED aluminium block,
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ive sen summat like that before something to do with lotus did a oneoff redtop aluminum block just for there racecar or sumething like that
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quote:
Originally posted by midlandvauxhalls
never seen a coscast block myself,the block shown in the article is a QED aluminium block,


have you read the article? had wondered if it imagined it while sedated on herb. it mentions coscast block in it aswell. this is why i was asking. swear it has the coscast stamp on the pic of the block also
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yea have read it, the block shown is deffo the QED alli block, can see the mains girdle, i dont know where they got the idea of a coscast block, if they where out there i recon we would of heard of them by now
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its a QED block as said

[Edited on 15-12-2006 by jr]
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quote:
Originally posted by jr
its a QED block as said

[Edited on 15-12-2006 by jr]


whats with the coscast stamp on it then? or a write up in the article about coscast blocks?

as midlandvauxhall says, havent ever heard of it before.

i thought id imagined it with drug abuse, aslong as someone else read the article going on about it, im happy
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yep ive read it, i think they just happend to find the nicest pic of an xe engine, and it happend to be a QED one, allthough im sure its metioned in the article
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yeah it says about the qed block able to go to 2.4 in the article i read that bit.

ill get the mag from the unit and scan it in tonight if i can find a scanner and then work out how to use it
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the stamp on the block is a Jenvey stamp

http://www.digitalempathy.co.uk/diary/28.02.06[K].JPG
http://www.digitalempathy.co.uk/diary/28.02.06[L].JPG
http://www.digitalempathy.co.uk/diary/28.02.06[M].JPG
Tastey bit of kit

[Edited on 15-12-2006 by midlandvauxhalls]
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aha yes

very tasty indeed. thanks for finding the pics, been searching for hours
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would love a QED block, 20Kg and around 4k price tag
Nic Barnes
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only 4 grand????

would make an interesting engine for sure though. havent really seen anything using one, just read about it years ago on migweb
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how is it the easiest way to make 200bhp NA though??? Bloody expensive way!!! i know it was retro cars but surely (in the 90's still!) the 2.2 vtec is already 200bhp?????
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didnt some dutch lads use a frontera bottom end to go to 2.4 ?
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maybe they meant the cheapest way to have an engine with tourque????

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