Posted: Sun Feb 28, 2010 7:29 pm
I just wanted to give you guys an update :
First of all I never said this would be a track car. I seriously DO NOT need to go all out . I want a daily driver road car which may see about 100 kms per week tops and the odd long trip once or twice a year and not so important [ as i have never even been to the track yet ] is that I would like to occasionally take the Staz down to the track simply just for a few light rounds around the track but mainly to have a starion showing at the track days.
Going to the track is something I have very much been looking forward to but my MAIN goal is for my Staz to be a nice fast but not overly modded street car.
Being a mum and never having been to the track I dont see it getting to much of a thrashing round the track that often..
I like a fast car that can zoom off from the lights nice and fast or when I take it out to the beach round the windy roads I can give it a bit of a cane..nothing major .
So that being said I was looking round for the bits I needed to just do a simple easy mpi. .
There was nothing available apart from the engine mentioned at the top of this post. It is the 7 bolt 4g64 engine . Measures 130mm from the top two crank bolts which Im told is the right measurement.
I need to also let you know someone mentioned ' and by the time you spend al the money on the honeing etc ' when that person said that they must have thought I was going to spend the money doing all of that but its ALREADY been done. The engine is one grand ...that includes all the stuff mentioned in the first post [ honed, acid washed, rebuild parts, full gasket sets, bearing sets etc etc ] The guy I am buying the engine off apparently saved and saved for all the bits , got the engine all prepped as mentioned above and had planned to do the rebuild and stick back into is L300 van...by the time he got all of this done his van was too rusted to pass a wof and he was more interested in his new rotary build so lucky me gets all the bits all ready to go .
So it really was not a hard decison to decide to simply put engine back together with all the bits there and ready to go [ and very good local engineer happy to do this at a cost of between $400 and $600 ] and then simply put engine in my car . Apparently this is ALOT easier than going twin cam with possibly just as nice results for what I want and not much harder than doing just a normal mpi .
My question is : if I had bought this block all assembled and ready to go would we be discussing adding all these extra bits and pulling engine apart and having to wait months to save for more stuff ? Or would I be just be puuting staight into Staz just for now to get it mpi'd and on the road and concentrate my money towards a new computer and tuning?
What Im saying is the engine is apart..ready to re assemble with all the bits there . I dont have a big budget but yes of course always want to do the job properly . Im just not sure that i need forgies and if i was to get this block nicely assembled with all the new bits it would simply be the cost of the engine [ with rebuild parts ] and then the cost of the assmebly then it would be ready to go into staz and I am sure i would be insanely happy with the extra power from having an mpi'ed engine, new computer, a good tune and then big exhaust and tc06...even if I dont make 300hp.
What do you think?
Crshbndct will be helping me put the block in and get it tuned etc
another question is how to 'run in' a newly rebuilt block at the same time as doing your first tune ?
Any help appareciated . Many have done this and since the whole engine was avaiable it just made sense rather than just straight mpi.
cheers guys
First of all I never said this would be a track car. I seriously DO NOT need to go all out . I want a daily driver road car which may see about 100 kms per week tops and the odd long trip once or twice a year and not so important [ as i have never even been to the track yet ] is that I would like to occasionally take the Staz down to the track simply just for a few light rounds around the track but mainly to have a starion showing at the track days.
Going to the track is something I have very much been looking forward to but my MAIN goal is for my Staz to be a nice fast but not overly modded street car.
Being a mum and never having been to the track I dont see it getting to much of a thrashing round the track that often..
I like a fast car that can zoom off from the lights nice and fast or when I take it out to the beach round the windy roads I can give it a bit of a cane..nothing major .
So that being said I was looking round for the bits I needed to just do a simple easy mpi. .
There was nothing available apart from the engine mentioned at the top of this post. It is the 7 bolt 4g64 engine . Measures 130mm from the top two crank bolts which Im told is the right measurement.
I need to also let you know someone mentioned ' and by the time you spend al the money on the honeing etc ' when that person said that they must have thought I was going to spend the money doing all of that but its ALREADY been done. The engine is one grand ...that includes all the stuff mentioned in the first post [ honed, acid washed, rebuild parts, full gasket sets, bearing sets etc etc ] The guy I am buying the engine off apparently saved and saved for all the bits , got the engine all prepped as mentioned above and had planned to do the rebuild and stick back into is L300 van...by the time he got all of this done his van was too rusted to pass a wof and he was more interested in his new rotary build so lucky me gets all the bits all ready to go .
So it really was not a hard decison to decide to simply put engine back together with all the bits there and ready to go [ and very good local engineer happy to do this at a cost of between $400 and $600 ] and then simply put engine in my car . Apparently this is ALOT easier than going twin cam with possibly just as nice results for what I want and not much harder than doing just a normal mpi .
My question is : if I had bought this block all assembled and ready to go would we be discussing adding all these extra bits and pulling engine apart and having to wait months to save for more stuff ? Or would I be just be puuting staight into Staz just for now to get it mpi'd and on the road and concentrate my money towards a new computer and tuning?
What Im saying is the engine is apart..ready to re assemble with all the bits there . I dont have a big budget but yes of course always want to do the job properly . Im just not sure that i need forgies and if i was to get this block nicely assembled with all the new bits it would simply be the cost of the engine [ with rebuild parts ] and then the cost of the assmebly then it would be ready to go into staz and I am sure i would be insanely happy with the extra power from having an mpi'ed engine, new computer, a good tune and then big exhaust and tc06...even if I dont make 300hp.
What do you think?
Crshbndct will be helping me put the block in and get it tuned etc
another question is how to 'run in' a newly rebuilt block at the same time as doing your first tune ?
Any help appareciated . Many have done this and since the whole engine was avaiable it just made sense rather than just straight mpi.
cheers guys