B14 Cam upgrades

[volvosneverdie]

that colour looks serious man.
really good.

and not a vast departure.

subtle, but gets second looks no bother.

[340ovlov]

the exhaust route is a must i have had my carb set up perfect by a local weber guru and had a stainless downpipe to side exit made last month also ditched the 15" alloys and gone back to standard the car now has no issues hitting 110mph all day i will find out the power bhp on sat when she goe's on the rollers at awesome gti

cheers dude.
how much did the s.s.d.p to s.e. stand you if you dont mind me asking?
Trying to pump up the jams on a bootstring. sorry, shoelace. I mean shoestring. Yeah, shoestring, thats it.

I.E. Like the Big budgie said to the Little Budgie: 'cheep!'.

it cost me £120 as a favour for a favour as i work next door to JP Exhaust in and did some tyre swaps for one of the lads there for his track beast the retail price would be about £250 ish i'm currenlt waiting for them to need more tyre swaps when they have done some track days with said beast then i'm going to get a 4 branch made as well that will be £200 to me but £450 to retail public

[Stefan]

Very intrested in tuning the 1.4 as it is the biggest engine that will fit in a daf. you can get a manifold to fit a daf 1.1 for a webber DCOE twin choke carb and i think the 1.4 head is the same.

[340ovlov]

bin on the rollers today at awesome gti the best figure was 61.14 bhp at the wheels with 74.85 ft/lb of torque and 71.37 bhp at the flywheel which was more than i expected and the whole group i went with we thought is would of been around 40bhp at the fly with the age etc so very impressed with it now just need to get the c1j home and built i bought today whilst there

[SteveP]

The other B14 in the UK that I've heard that was Dyno'd was Huskyracers and I think that produced around 75bhp too, so it seems they don't really tend to lose power due to age of the engine. I reckon it's a bit of a myth as I've never had an older car perform any less than it should!

[Stefan]

I have had some that have been down on power but they were mostly the ones without any service history, a good going over would regain some of the power but years of neglect took there tol.

[340ovlov]

I have had some that have been down on power but they were mostly the ones without any service history, a good going over would regain some of the power but years of neglect took there tol.

your right there fella mine has been owned by volvo from new with one other owner a fews ago that was a family member of the dealership so its always been looked after by the dealer with no expense spared and still is today

[Mkickert]

If you are interested in a cam upgrade for your b14, get in touch with Geoff at Autosprint.
He reground my cam to fast road spec, and provided uprated valve springs for a package price of 135 GBP.
Also factor in that to make the most out of such a cam, uprating compression and maybe portmatching your manifold would greatly help at little cost. And then you'd have to get your carb rejetted, ideally.
I'm also stuck with the b14 engine, as it's the biggest engine that will easily go into my 55 without destroying the transmission.

@stefan, the manifold you're thinking of has a slightly different port shape for an early Cleon engine. It could be filed right though. Still, the 32DIR is not really the limiting factor for the current tune of the B14.