Engine Builders talk.
Alright guys. Need your help. Probably going to grab a block tomorrow. It needs to be honed but overall it's a good deal. It lost pressure and ****ed the whole rotating assembly. So it's pi block and heads along with intake, oil pan, and probably injectors for $150 from a buddy of mine who is cleaning out his shop. He said engine had under 100k on it. I went and looked and you could still faintly see the cross hatching. My plan is to do a strong build capable of boost but probably won't have it right away, I would love to have a really nasty cam just because I love the choppy idle and think it would pair great with boost eventually. I was thinking I'm looking at ~$1600, am I correct? What's some good sites to buy from? What power numbers am I going to be looking at spending about that much? Pretty much guys is I need you to break it all down for me, not too sure on what I need or what I can make out of it being n/a to begin with.
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Originally Posted by the01kingranch
Alright guys. Need your help. Probably going to grab a block tomorrow. It needs to be honed but overall it's a good deal. It lost pressure and ****ed the whole rotating assembly. So it's pi block and heads along with intake, oil pan, and probably injectors for $150 from a buddy of mine who is cleaning out his shop. He said engine had under 100k on it. I went and looked and you could still faintly see the cross hatching. My plan is to do a strong build capable of boost but probably won't have it right away, I would love to have a really nasty cam just because I love the choppy idle and think it would pair great with boost eventually. I was thinking I'm looking at ~$1600, am I correct? What's some good sites to buy from? What power numbers am I going to be looking at spending about that much? Pretty much guys is I need you to break it all down for me, not too sure on what I need or what I can make out of it being n/a to begin with.
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Guys have made 350 to the wheels with good head work . if you are looking to boost in the future I would go with low or stock compression tho
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Yes boost in the future is a possibility and I want to build this engine wth that in mind, with that said I don't need to have the best of everything with the hopes of still having enough funds left over to supercharge. Or being able to throw the engine in N/A and still have fun.
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If everything checks out with your heads I would at least just get them resurfaced so you know they're true on the mating surface. It'll up the CR ever so slightly but if you plan the other parts out correctly it shouldn't hurt anything.
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Thank you everyone. I grabbed the engine a couple hours ago. If anyone has a build list they used I would appreciate it. Because I don't know the good places to go or the good deals or what would work well together in general lol.