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I'm not denying the fact you said they were great motor but you question whether it was a stock bottom end yes I agree that rod bolts isn't completely stock bu the things you suggest require so much Work that you might aswell rebuild the motor. Rod bolts are easy to do and only required sump removal.
I helped build kris' car did all the fabrication except manifold kris built and machined the engine himself and only balancing was outsourced. Another mate did all the wiring and we paid our tuner to tune it.
As reliability and lagyness if your in Melbourne I'm sure kris will take you for a drive in his car and show you how a well setup turbo goes. In third gear it will launch at full boost and keep going pulling strong all the way past the speed limit and I Garauntee that there is very very few cars that will match it.
As for track well some cars aren't really setup for circuit I'm sure in a straight and out of the corners it'll match most cars but circuit racing requires better corning and braking to be fast but wewill see there's a PI track day coming up and see how well it does out there
Like I said, credit where it's due, good motor is good and all that. I'm interested though as to what needed (the outsourced) balancing if the bottom end was left in place, stock bearings and all that with just the rod bolts done with the sump off?
At the end of the day, only someone shooting for some kind of "unopened motor" record would put that much boost through a stock motor and would probably label them as disposable anyway.
And the bloke before mentioning his 1.6 60 foot times on stock turbos and 18psi, firstly that doesn't prove crap about lag cause you could have sat on the line for ages for all I know and secondly 18psi on stock turbos is not the 1000 killer wasps and 40psi uber turbo I was referring to is it?
And yeah I have a red tag beside my name, wow, do you have a gold star beside yours, a medal perhaps?
