hello all,
I was having a lovely conversation with a buddy and we were talking about what he is going to do with his ride. He pretty much is about to take the cheapest road possible and i basically laughed at him for saying such. He called up a performance shop that rebuild his engine for him ( with forged lower internals but stock up top ) and they told him the car could handle 300 hp easy just like it is, with a turbo being slapped on to make it that 300 hp ( from the ~160 ) hp it is now.
I told him that he runs a superb chance on blowing some of his upper internals if he does this, cause stock isnt made to handle the stress, especially on a n/t stock car. I told him if he didnt want to rebuild the top half, he would be running at about a safe 225hp with not taking a huge chance at blowing the stock internals. ( original cams, lifters, valves,etc... 140k miles worth of wear on them too)
anyone have some input on this? as much as i would like to see him shoot a rod through his engine, im afraid i would be the one ripping it out
so I guess I am being proactive to myself haha!
I will be bringing him here to show him this thread. I told him he should take this in steps, but he wants power without the $10k investment. I said the only way you do that is with taking chances, and can easily lose those chances.