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Old 10-13-2004, 09:46 PM
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about a motor rebuild kit

Does anyone have any Idea as to how much money I need to fully rebuild a GN motor and what's the best way to go. I mean I'm recieving a motor for free the only thing that I have to do is rebuild the turbo and motor.
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how much power are you thinking of making with this stock block?
and what are you going to use it for??
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Re: about a motor rebuild kit

I have a goal set to run about 30 psi on stock internals but i'm really not sure if it will handle it.
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Re: about a motor rebuild kit

I mean i know that I need some metal head gaskets but I just want to prove some poeple wrong. I think it wikll hold it though becuase of the iron heads and bottom end
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why 30 PSI???? It can with 118 octane race fuel on short 1/4 mile spurts with nice intercooler and fuel tuning with that, How much power do you want to make?
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Re: about a motor rebuild kit

I want to make just a little over 500whp around maybee 500-550whp
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what is your budget?


sorry for the questions, In in the middle of building a engine build sheet for ya
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Re: about a motor rebuild kit

no limit soldier!
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Re: about a motor rebuild kit

but the main reason that I want to do this swap is becuase it hasn't been in my town and it will me an ultimate sleeper and you know 500rwhp is enough for me at least until i get bored with it!
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well i am building my 86' up with 400+ hp. if ya need site to find parts shoot me an e-mail, [email protected] an i will answer as much as i can.
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