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Originally Posted by Geronimo '74
And I would like to change the cams as well, or have mine reground.
AND I wanted all this with 3.4 P/C's, balancing of crankshaft, rods and cilinders, knife edged crank, shot peened rods, case boat tailed, cilinders mooned, intake extrude honed, lightened flywheel.....
Oh yeah what I'm definately doing is a bored out throttlebody. ( by FVD)
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Just re-read all this...
You're listing a lot of expensive things that all in all, really don't offer much value...
These are all just fancy tidbits that folks do when they have money to burn...
All these things, with the exception of the bigger displacement.. add very little horse power or big differences to your engine feel. At least nothing that you won't get used to in a matter of months.
Why would you want a lightened flywheel? it just makes the car harder to drive in normal traffic.
Knife edging the crank, boat tailing the case, mooning the cyllinders... Those things maybe add 2 % more power.. that's 5-6 hp for you and me... at what cost??
The extrude honing of the intake, boring the TB... again, minor improvement... and if you do that, you better be gas flowing and polishing your heads...All for... what? another 10 HP?
I'm sorry G, but it just sounds like you have written down every little bit of fancy gimmickery folks can do to an engine, and racers do those things , digging up every little bit of oomph they can find, for that extra bit of advantage on the track... and you made that list what your must have list...
The only thing is... racers are nuts, they will dump more money in cars and engines then is sane... They also drive with roll cages, and cars that are ultra light... cars that for most people, are undrivable in traffic. tediously compromised... loud, and tiring. Squeeky brake pads, loud rattles everywhere...
So you told us, that your budget is limited. So that's your compromise... don't compromise the other qualities of your car now...
There's no point in all those things, if you just want a nice, drivable car, with fresh, mildly improved engine.
Get the SSI exhaust, you'll have a great sound
get it tuned for the new exhaust... , you'll get a 20 / 30 of extra horses
Just don't dump buckets of money in things that aren't going to bring you a noticable increase in fun. If you do not intend on tracking the car, gutting the interior, upgrading the brakes, the suspension...
Then don't go nuts with silly engine mods where the bang for the buck ratio is high on bucks, low on bangs.
You'll just piss your money away... might as well sell your roller to me for 500 bucks... it's pretty much the same level of waste.