standard 2.5 and motorsport 2.5 diffrences

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xedan
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Sun Aug 08, 2010 4:31 pm

ive been told there are diffrences between the to 2.5 engines between a motorsport and a standard 2.5 is this true and if so what are they ie power etc
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Sun Aug 08, 2010 5:46 pm

No difference between Sports and nonsports of the same age.
M3 had a totally different engine of course.
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Mon Aug 09, 2010 9:57 am

the only difference in m20B25 is the year of production as you can ahve a high comp engine pre1988 and a lower cat prepped engine post 1988
pre 1988 high Cr engine is approx 10.1 and cat prepped engine is 8.8.1
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Mon Aug 09, 2010 10:01 am

xedan wrote:ive been told there are diffrences between the to 2.5 engines between a motorsport and a standard 2.5 is this true and if so what are they ie power etc
urban myths die hard!
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Mon Aug 09, 2010 10:13 am

pnd wrote:
xedan wrote:ive been told there are diffrences between the to 2.5 engines between a motorsport and a standard 2.5 is this true and if so what are they ie power etc
urban myths die hard!
LOL
its a birmingham sport got 45bhp extra because of the motorsport badge lol
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Mon Aug 16, 2010 11:14 pm

so what one is best to go for and how do u tell the differance
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