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1.8 litre Turbo engine
Here is a little history on how the Nissan CA18 evolved in our Cortina.
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The Story
Originally we fitted a non turbo CA18 engine to the car, but soon wanted more power. A year or after in went a standard turbo engine. With this engine we were able to run 8.2 second eighth mile times, which is about 12.9 second quarter mile time. We were pretty pleased with this. We then decided to go for even more power. Never ends, you always want more power :) Read on to find out more.

With aiming for more power we had to rethink all aspects of the engines operation. Looking at all components inside and out.

The engine was built by Geoff S. (Shirley Engines) Internals with exception of a couple of Japanese sourced parts were all made here in Australia. Car is still a regularly driven street car.
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Specifications
Forged pistons & Perfect Seal rings (SPS Melbourne)
'I' beam connecting rods (Argo Sydney)
Steel ML head gasket (Grex)
Fully balanced (Crank drilled and plugged)
Decked, CCd & blueprinted
Head ported and flowed. (Standard valves)
New valve springs.
Tomei hydraulic cams.
ARP head studs
Tomei vernier cam pulleys
Siemens 770cc fuel injectors and custom fuel rail
Gates 'racing' performance timing belt
Modified harmonic balancer
Standard flywheel
Custom built single plate and cover by 'Race clutch'
GT series Garrett roller internal waste gate turbo (.7 comp cover)
Inch 5/8 HPC coated exhaust manifold (Low mount) with thermocouple ports.
Grex oil cooler and remote filter
BMC air filter
Engine still displaces 1.8 litre's
Autronic SMC engine management & CDI
Gearbox is still a standard Nissan Silvia S13 5 speed

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Now we have 280kws (375HP) @ rear wheels.
Best terminal speed 123mph recorded in 2005
With this power we managed a best so far on 18psi (1.2bar the 200Kw level) 12.5 @112.6 mph on street radials. At the higher boost settings (260Kw level) we managed a best so far of 11.5 @123 mph still on street radials. We have now run on the 1/8th mile a best time of and MPH of 7.31 @ 97 MPH. These times all recorded on street radials, 5 speed manual and full exhaust system. These were recorded in 2004 - 2005. Have yet to race in '06 and '07
Thanx to Mark & Paul @ JPC

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