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Posted: **March 21st, 2005, 8:28 pm**

WHATS FASTER A STOCK 1.8 GS MX-3 OR A MX-3 WITH A BP SWAP

Posted: **March 21st, 2005, 8:37 pm**

do you mean bpt swap or reguloar bp? becasue the k8 is sligly faster than the bp. If its a bpt...then yes its way way WAY faster than a k8. I think even better than klze

Posted: **March 21st, 2005, 11:20 pm**

no i ment bp non turbo they have around the same hp as a k8 but much lighter wouldnt it be faster

Posted: **March 22nd, 2005, 12:47 am**

How you figure it's alot lighter?

Posted: **March 22nd, 2005, 12:52 am**

K8 is about 130 HP, BP is around 125 and the RS isnt a whole lot lighter than the RS really

Posted: **March 22nd, 2005, 7:53 am**

Isn't the B's cast iron while the K's aluminum?

Posted: **March 22nd, 2005, 9:20 am**

Nd4SpdSe wrote:Isn't the B's cast iron while the K's aluminum?

That's what I thought too.

Posted: **March 23rd, 2005, 10:21 pm**

There's been some weights posted before, while the K8 has an aluminium block, it also has way more crap attached to it

Posted: **March 24th, 2005, 3:26 am**

K8 = 123Kgs ( dry no oil or water or accessories or flywheel )

Inlet Mainafold Assy 15kgs
Alternator = 5kgs
P/S Pump Assy = 3kgs
A/C Pump = 6.5kgs
Tensioner Bracket Assy = 1kgs
Flywheel = 7.0kgs (stock no clutch assy)

Now a "stock" cast iron 4 cylinder block bare weights in at
70 kgs from memory....

Matt

Posted: **March 25th, 2005, 12:41 am**

Cheers Matt, knew there'd be a train-spotter out there!

Posted: **March 25th, 2005, 3:13 am**

Hey Aston, you still got the window power switch in the other shell???

Ina few weeks im going to borrow the old mans portable cattle weight
platform and weight the empty shell...

Posted: **March 25th, 2005, 9:46 am**

so what would be faster stock k8 or stock bp swap in a rs the bp is lighter but the k8 has +10hp has anyone raced a stock k8 with their bp swap

Posted: **March 25th, 2005, 11:55 am**

Well I have beaten a manual bp mx3 on my k8.. not sure if that answers any questions... also well the driver has alot to do with it. My car had more acceleration than the other car. This was done a few times. I just love it when the vris solenoids open up... before they open it looked as if he was goping to win, but as soon as they opened booom...he was a bit behind.

Posted: **March 25th, 2005, 9:40 pm**

kiwi_MX3 wrote:Hey Aston, you still got the window power switch in the other shell???

Ina few weeks im going to borrow the old mans portable cattle weight
platform and weight the empty shell...

The other shell is goooone, but yeah, i think i kept the window switches, which one/s are you after??

Posted: **March 25th, 2005, 10:28 pm**

I put the spec weights in here; http://www.mx-3.com/phpbb2/viewforum.php?f=1

And you boys down on the farm, put that cattle scale away..