I recently fried my pistons and rods and I 'm now trying to rebuild my engine. However im not sure what to build my engine with in terms of pistons or rods. And if i should get valves and retainers while im at it.

This car is my daily driver and I'm on the stock turbo and probably wont be able to get a bigger turbo for a while but if anything ill go with a 20g.

Any suggestions or advice?

Thanks,
Chris

 

anyone?

 

contact any of the big vendors.. are you sure you can handle this job.. these newer 4g's have some odd quirks to them..

 

if you can afford it, just buy a Cosworth head, slap in some Omega pistons, Eagle or HKS rods, ARP head bolts, Cometic head gasket. & while you're at it, slap on some Tomei 280 cams (11.8 lift), HKS cam gears, & Tomei kevlar timing belt. the Cosworth head will already have new valve guides, & retainers. your head will then pull to 9k rpm all day long after a tune of course...

 

If I was building a daily driver from the ground up, from my existing block I would simply do a 2.3 stroker kit. You'll probably have to have the bores honed anyway with the rebuild and why not go for a bit more displacement. You can get good power gains on a relatively stock car on the stock turbo.

 

BIG MONEY....

 

I agree. Just make sure you go with a very reputable engine builder (i.e. get several references, and talk to them). And ask about expected oil consumption up front. One thing to note, if you do go with a 2.3, then don't expect too much out of your stock turbo, it will run out of steam around 6000 rpms, if not a little earlier. A 20g or WR should fix that, though.

l8r)

 

Agreed.

 

anybody know how a stroker is daily driven

 

My idea:
New OEM bottom end
Buschur head
ARP headstuds
HKS 272/272 cams
Buschur 20g
all other needed supporting mods...and a good tune!

 

If its going to be daily driven and you want it to last a while I would go with wiseco pistons which can run nice tight clearence's and some crower rods. Depending on how extreme you want the car to be you could always get a galant crank and make it a 2.3 or go a full 2.4 4g64 block.

 

If you need expert advice about the 2.3 stroker contact ams.

www.amstuned.com

 

call up ams or buschur

 

They are delicious. Once you drive one you won't want to go back to a 2.0. But the cost is a lot higher.

It'll cost $6-7 K just to get a 2.3/2.4 in there, if you want a turbo kit to fit it around $10K. Plan on down time 2-3 weeks longer with any built motor. It just seems to work out that way.

You can buy a brand new 2.0 dealer shortblock delivered for about $2k with a core and get your block r and r'd for about $1000 - $1500. I've posted where a few times so thread search if interested.

Another thing about the strokers is the little turbos get amazing torque but run out of steam up top, but as a daily driver you don't use the top and they're way fun in traffic - you can jump v8's with them on pump gas.

 

im going to call up buschur and ams sometime this week also do i need to get the car re tuned if i go 2.3? Im guessing yes but will a flash work