Anyone running a SB 2.4 4g64 stroker with Mivec head?

If so, how do you rate it?

I am thinking about this setup with a 850r?

 

Hey buddy, our 2.4 is a true 4G64. It's not a stroker. Do you have any particular questions? We've got a lot of these out there, both street and race cars.

You can check out one of our threads, here. https://www.evolutionm.net/forums/ev...lock-sale.html

 

If you can - shot me an email - mh@slowboyracing.com

Marti asked me to spit some game in the forum, but obviously anything I would say is a bit biased.

If you email or call me, I would be happy to tell you how it all works together. I ran this combo in my personal EVO IX and in our rally car a few years back.

Mike Huml
- Slowboy

 

SLB,

You guys made that 2.6 right? Any results from it?

 

SBR make great motors. Marti and Mike are great guys and can get you setup for whatever you need. Congrats on making the switch to a 2.4L MIVEC

Mikey

 

Are you guys always going to have these 2.4l's?

 

I wouldn't run any SBR products if I were you. Their customer service and support is not up to par with some of the other vendors on here.

Check the customer reviews section on here, or via google.

 

I am going to go ahead and disagree with you. A very good friend of mine recently spun a bearing in his 07 sti. Mike Huml has been working with him very closely on the build, by closely i mean multp email back and forth daily. When the motor arrived back UPS literally dropped it off the freight truck. I can honestly say Mike has whole heartedly stepped up to the plate to work with my friend and UPS to get a resolution. Unfortunately UPS is the worst shipping company ever (i dont use them from prior experiences) but Mike has stepped up and even donated services to ensure the motor is ok.

I have also heard bad rap on SBR but i can honestly say their prices and customer service, at least in my close second hand experience, has been top notch. Not to mention their extremely nice porting work that i have seen first hand.

/rant.

 

I had a 2.6l in my own EVO IX thanks to a great custom billet crank from Brian Crower. I even had the guts to run this on a stock IX turbo for a week or so - you want to talk about mad TQ - I had 400 ft/lbs at 3500 RPM's... it was a cool ride for sure.

I then went to a turbo to big for my taste before I sold the car - it was a BW S366 I believe in a T4 frame - made great HP (580 ish at 24 PSI) but obviously was lacking low end grunt. I then sold the car, I get bored to easy... it's kind of sad actually.

I wish I could have that car (EVO IX) and my STI back (05), o.k. and maybe my turbo hayabusa....

 

i used to use them all the time back in my 1g and 2g days then out of of nowhere one day i ordered a trans for my 2g from them got it and it was a mitsu rebuild from what i was told, long story short trans was bad called there multiply times no one wanted to help finally talked to mike huml he basically said i was "beat" and the only thing he offered was for me to drive out there which was like a 3-4 hour drive and he said he would "look" at it, after that experience with sb racing i never used them again. Now maybe times have changed and things are better there but they rubbed me the wrong way and dont want to deal with a vendor that treats there REPEATING customers like that!

 

slow boy do you give military discount?? and sponsor

 

When we order transmissions from Mitsu - there is a new and rebuilt price, I do not know the particulars about this case, but you were probably quoted 3k for a new one and $1,400 for a rebuilt one - and you probably took the less expensive option.

That's my guess, but if you could not bring it to us to look at - there was not much we could do.

 

A few of us grew up in Military families of course we can help.

Sponsorship - what's that?

 

If you are talking about that black one, I bought it at auction down here in the south. Its been awhile, but I think it was either Adesa Charlotte or Statesville AutoAuction I bought it at.

Long story short, sold it to a kid and it got trailered back to the dealership I worked for at the time with in 5 hours of him buying it. Kid managed to blow on of the cylinder walls out. New scuby shorty and havent seen it since. I think it is still somewhere in the Upstate SC tho

 

SBR had a scholarship program at my Tech school, We had an open house and they said they would be their with the Rally car and some other cars. Had a nice big spot cleared out for them to display, long story short no show no call, I had heard alot of negative things about them and this pretty much confirmed it for me.