Yep. cheapest and easiest way to do it. Plus easier to find the other components if they should break. Such as cables, Xfer cases and shifters.

Its back up people!!!

Buy a muffler(maybe used) and go to a muffler shop and have them bend something for you.

I guess if your still undecided get the best of both worlds and do a compound setup. the 2.3 wouldnt know what hit it. And yeah, total cost is what I was talking about from the beginning.

$150 hx35 if your lucky $125 feed and return(larger than stock) $200 to $1000 T3 mani $125 Slim fan that pulls at least 1400 cfm $250 for one 272 cam(larger recommended for stroker but Im sure you knew that).

Boost leak? Exhaust leak pre turbo?

It comes down to how much money you want to spend up front. 16g=$250.00 HX35=$750-$1000 at the end of the day. Usually when people are asking opinions they dont reply back to everything mentioned with a counter arugment.

20G will get you well into the 11s and into the 120s on trap. If you are really good at tuning you could get the evo III into the 11s too. The 20g(tdo6) is a little slower to spool mut not much.

EVO III turbo is great for 300-375 hp on Stockish setup and is very streetable. The HX35 as mentioned above requires hotside or manifold and feed and return provisions. You wont be able to take great advantage of the holset without good fuel mods and a set of cams would really help open things...

Where is the noise coming from? front, back, driverside or pass. side? Is it coming from the head?

No not quite that good. Maybe a foggy mirror then. I used a precision straightedge and .003 feeler guage to check both head and block. numeous times and every angle possible. Took about 2 hrs to check block and head. The motor has cometic gasket on it using copper spray and arp studs at 90 ft...

I just redid my head and used brake cleaner and scotchbrite pads to clean both of the surfaces. Im using MLS and got the mirror finish I needed. If you take everything off the head yourself a machine shop will charge about $50.00. If you send a complete head to them to breakdown and rebuild then...

His name is Dave. I will try to find his info.EDIT*****-- I found his number. PM me if you need it.

Yeah, I was wondering what was going on. We were hoping you would of made it to the meet on saturday. Thai came. I called Tuan but he said he was busy. Todd Phillips said he was going to make it, but didnt. I called Matt too, but with the new baby I guess him and amber are locked down for a few...

Check base timing, boost leaks, look for lean conditions on plugs and gapping. what octane fuel are you running? Real bad lifter tick can cause some degree of knock too. Especially if you are running solid mounts.