Long Time Coming Stroker Build
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Long Time Coming Stroker Build
Hello all,
I've been wanting to do a build for sometime now but between getting out of the military, going back to school, and planning a wedding my car had taken a back seat for a long time. Now that school's coming to a close and the wedding is all planned out/paid for I can focus on working on my car a bit. My goals were to build a fun street car that I can drive from time to time without having to worry about much. I also wanted to add some suspension parts along with a few other little changes while the car was down. The following will be done or is already done to the car.
Head:
-Valve Job
-Kiggly Springs and Ti retainers
-GSC S2 Cams
-New valves, lifters, etc
-ARP L19 head studs
Block:
-2.3l
-Manley Crank
-Manley Rods
-ACL Bearings
-Weisco 1400 HD Pistons
-All new hardware'
-OEM Stubby Balance shaft Eliminator
-Fluidampr
Suspension:
-Bilstein shocks (Re-valved/built)
-Swift springs
-All new bushings
Fuel:
-FIC 2150 injectors
-Double Pumper (Walbro 255's)
-All new Fuel lines
Turbo:
-FP Red (For now)
-FP oil line kit
Random stuff:
-ARP extended studs
-New AEM Guages
-New floor mats
-Get new upper intercooler pipe fab work
Block at the machine shop
Pistons
FP Red (Purchased on the forum)--Upgraded due to member lying about the condition
Table of goodies
Bilstein's being packed up to get a re-build
New FAP and filter for FP oil line
Fluidampr
Much more to come!!
Bryan
I've been wanting to do a build for sometime now but between getting out of the military, going back to school, and planning a wedding my car had taken a back seat for a long time. Now that school's coming to a close and the wedding is all planned out/paid for I can focus on working on my car a bit. My goals were to build a fun street car that I can drive from time to time without having to worry about much. I also wanted to add some suspension parts along with a few other little changes while the car was down. The following will be done or is already done to the car.
Head:
-Valve Job
-Kiggly Springs and Ti retainers
-GSC S2 Cams
-New valves, lifters, etc
-ARP L19 head studs
Block:
-2.3l
-Manley Crank
-Manley Rods
-ACL Bearings
-Weisco 1400 HD Pistons
-All new hardware'
-OEM Stubby Balance shaft Eliminator
-Fluidampr
Suspension:
-Bilstein shocks (Re-valved/built)
-Swift springs
-All new bushings
Fuel:
-FIC 2150 injectors
-Double Pumper (Walbro 255's)
-All new Fuel lines
Turbo:
-FP Red (For now)
-FP oil line kit
Random stuff:
-ARP extended studs
-New AEM Guages
-New floor mats
-Get new upper intercooler pipe fab work
Block at the machine shop
Pistons
FP Red (Purchased on the forum)--Upgraded due to member lying about the condition
Table of goodies
Bilstein's being packed up to get a re-build
New FAP and filter for FP oil line
Fluidampr
Much more to come!!
Bryan
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Turbo needed to be taken apart and inspected for any issues and FAP installed. The Retaining clip proved to be a big pain in the A**!!!!!
All done!
A package came in as well with some goodies.
All done!
A package came in as well with some goodies.
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yes Bryan I agree, this will be my first time building a 4 banger by myself, I have built small block 350's before, so I am familiar with blueprinting and assembly techniques, this is a project car as I have a daily driver, so I am in no rush. In fact, I will likely send my trans and tcase out to shep to get a stage 1 rebuild on both while everything is out. what crank did you use? forged? I am thinking about the manely billet for this build. also, did you overbore the block? what HG did you end up using? thanks Bryan.
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yes Bryan I agree, this will be my first time building a 4 banger by myself, I have built small block 350's before, so I am familiar with blueprinting and assembly techniques, this is a project car as I have a daily driver, so I am in no rush. In fact, I will likely send my trans and tcase out to shep to get a stage 1 rebuild on both while everything is out. what crank did you use? forged? I am thinking about the manely billet for this build. also, did you overbore the block? what HG did you end up using? thanks Bryan.
My crank option was the standard Manley 100mm crank. I was on the fence with going billet but decided to go with the standard crank because my power levels won't go above 600-650 ever (I hope). I said to myself that if I start to go any higher it might be time to look into another platform to tinker with. I'm going to build my spare engine once this project is done, so who knows what ill do. As for 'Overbore" I had to only go .02 over once the machine shop did their work. If you're going 2.3L just make sure you get the stroker pistons and you'll be good to go. The head gasket I went with is the standard OEM gasket as from what I've read and heard they hold up well. Depending if I stay with the FP Red or upgrade to the FP Black, I'll stay around the 30-35lbs of boost in which I think the head gasket should be just fine.
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Here's some pictures from when I got my intake/exhuast manifolds and throttle body back from porting and coating. Socalporting.com did an amazing job and the price was to good to pass up. My turbo will go out once I decide if I'm going to keep the Red or go Black and coating will be applied.
Intake Manifold all ported and coated up
Exhaust manifold
Intake Manifold all ported and coated up
Exhaust manifold
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Some more pictures of my fuel system which was not fun installing all the new lines. If I could go back and do it over again I would build this myself instead of buying a kit from here. It turned out really nice but I feel that I could have made the line's a bit cleaner for fitting purposes. The fuel lines were also hare to remove.
Old unit:
New unit:
FIC 2150's
Old unit:
New unit:
FIC 2150's
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Here's the block and head back from the machine shop and put together. I didn't get any pictures of me assembling...ohh well!!
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This is like something I'd like to do with a DIY build, how much do you think you save by doing this yourself? Is it just basically the machining you need to get done and everything else you can do yourself?
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Car was put to sleep and the engine removal started!! This proved to be a little difficult because I did it by myself. I would say, honestly, that marking everything and writing it down in my book is what took the longest but paid off when reinstalling everything.
First day at work.
New VS old
Second day and wala its out!!
Side note:
For anyone doing this for the first time, make sure you pull the front bumper off to give some more room for the lift. I didn't do this and it made it very difficult to get the engine out. I fixed this when installing the engine and it proved to make it much easier and less stress on scratching things.
Bryan
First day at work.
New VS old
Second day and wala its out!!
Side note:
For anyone doing this for the first time, make sure you pull the front bumper off to give some more room for the lift. I didn't do this and it made it very difficult to get the engine out. I fixed this when installing the engine and it proved to make it much easier and less stress on scratching things.
Bryan
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Car was put to sleep and the engine removal started!! This proved to be a little difficult because I did it by myself. I would say, honestly, that marking everything and writing it down in my book is what took the longest but paid off when reinstalling everything.
First day
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New VS old
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Second day and wala its out!!
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Time to clean this thing up
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Side note:
For anyone doing this for the first time, make sure you pull the front bumper off to give some more room for the lift. I didn't do this and it made it very difficult to get the engine out. I fixed this when installing the engine and it proved to make it much easier and less stress on scratching things.
Bryan
First day
<a href="http://s100.photobucket.com/user/kwtr/media/IMG_1085.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m14/kwtr/IMG_1085.jpg" border="0" alt=" photo IMG_1085.jpg"/></a>
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New VS old
<a href="http://s100.photobucket.com/user/kwtr/media/IMG_1849.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m14/kwtr/IMG_1849.jpg" border="0" alt=" photo IMG_1849.jpg"/></a>
Second day and wala its out!!
<a href="http://s100.photobucket.com/user/kwtr/media/IMG_1111.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m14/kwtr/IMG_1111.jpg" border="0" alt=" photo IMG_1111.jpg"/></a>
Time to clean this thing up
<a href="http://s100.photobucket.com/user/kwtr/media/IMG_1112.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m14/kwtr/IMG_1112.jpg" border="0" alt=" photo IMG_1112.jpg"/></a>
Side note:
For anyone doing this for the first time, make sure you pull the front bumper off to give some more room for the lift. I didn't do this and it made it very difficult to get the engine out. I fixed this when installing the engine and it proved to make it much easier and less stress on scratching things.
Bryan
