Wednesday morning I bid farewell to cylinder #2. Looks like I lost an injector and put a hole in the piston. Happy 400k present while out of tow. Yay me!
While I may not be doing a full on build yet, I have gotten the green light on a build none the less. I'm budgeting for $25k. That includes labour and a low mileage motor (64000kms on it) which will eat up about 11k leaving me potentially with 14k. Remember, this is the Canadian dollar I'm dealing with.
I'm thinking NOW is the time to do my exhaust, downpipe, intake, manifolds, up pipes, y pipe, bridge, intercooler and pipes. I would love to squeeze danvilles stg2r 68mm into there as well. The idea being that it's fairly simple to swap this stuff over later since the broken motor will get pistons, rods, studs, fuel system, etc down the road. This is all in prep for the end goal with twins.
Here's were I need the knowledge of you fine folks on what components work with what, what has fitiment issues and what doesn't, what will help and what won't do anything.
I am looking at the mishimoto intercooler and piping kit, max flow mani and up pipes, 4" turbo back exhaust, sdp y pipe and bridge, s&b intake, and obviously a downpipe. My first and foremost goal is lower temps as I'm sure this was the culprit in the destruction of my current motor. Beyond that, I'm clueless.
Hopefully if your reading this you have suggestions to help an enthusiast out, or else you are looking into a build yourself, hopefully not under the same circumstances. Whatever the case, thanks for any help and your time reading this.
While I may not be doing a full on build yet, I have gotten the green light on a build none the less. I'm budgeting for $25k. That includes labour and a low mileage motor (64000kms on it) which will eat up about 11k leaving me potentially with 14k. Remember, this is the Canadian dollar I'm dealing with.
I'm thinking NOW is the time to do my exhaust, downpipe, intake, manifolds, up pipes, y pipe, bridge, intercooler and pipes. I would love to squeeze danvilles stg2r 68mm into there as well. The idea being that it's fairly simple to swap this stuff over later since the broken motor will get pistons, rods, studs, fuel system, etc down the road. This is all in prep for the end goal with twins.
Here's were I need the knowledge of you fine folks on what components work with what, what has fitiment issues and what doesn't, what will help and what won't do anything.
I am looking at the mishimoto intercooler and piping kit, max flow mani and up pipes, 4" turbo back exhaust, sdp y pipe and bridge, s&b intake, and obviously a downpipe. My first and foremost goal is lower temps as I'm sure this was the culprit in the destruction of my current motor. Beyond that, I'm clueless.
Hopefully if your reading this you have suggestions to help an enthusiast out, or else you are looking into a build yourself, hopefully not under the same circumstances. Whatever the case, thanks for any help and your time reading this.
