mrsilent13

they can do it...but my car just had a hickup.....u might want to wait...till they have a firm grip on tuning the f/i 2.2s

jimbos'ss

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damn that ******* blows, time for a motor build, you have a supporting vendor right here in glendale that can get you parts pretty quick for the 2.2-karo. just gotta find a good machine shop, whitfield racing could probably machine prep and assemble it for you.

mrsilent13

i know...i was looking at his website last nite....i added up mostly everything..... and it would come out to 2500....which isnt too bad....so all motor build, aluminum manifold...and turbo...yea i think i can push about 20lbs of boost if not more....lol

jimbos'ss

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2500 in parts and prolly another 1k for machine work and assembly.

mrsilent13

im not to worried about the assembly part....machine work....what kind of machine work are you talking about?

jimbos'ss

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honing the cylinders, decking the block, 5 anle valve job, porting the exhaust ports. the usuall stuff when building a motor...........

mrsilent13

hmm interesting... i guess i havent really thought this out yet.....but no biggy it will get done....ill make a note of this

jimbos'ss

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start planning, it's a long process if you don't, be very thorough.

mrsilent13

well so far im thinking valve spring, valves, turbo cams, head gasket, forged rods, forged pistons, adj cam gears......everything u mentioned above....anything else i can add to my list?

jimbos'ss

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yah, headstuds, mainstuds, just about every bolt on the damn thing is one time use only, complete gasket set, arp headstuds, cometic head gasket. might as well cryo treat it for another $450 while your at it, the cryo shop is in palmdale. cam sensor seals, oil cooler seals, there's a bunch of **** yah gotta get to rebuild these motors. allot for about 2K more than you plan money wise cause the build will run over your initial estimates, i'll guarantee that, and will take longer than you think as well.

mrsilent13

hmm so pretty much im looking to spend around 3500~5000 parts and labor

jimbos'ss

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if you want it done right, you could always go the cheap route...............if you wanna knock off some of those costs you can limit things like cams and port jobs, those are non mission essentials so to speak.

mrsilent13

right i figuered that.....but might as well...that re enlistment bonus is about to drop into my bank account real soon....so no worries....out of those 40k i can spend 5k of those with no worries...lol

jimbos'ss

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you can share too................i only need like 1250 for some recaros and a hood

elecblue06

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luls share here too i only need like 1k to get the rest of my boost parts lol and gauges and stuff lol

mrsilent13

what do i get out of it if i share with you guys?...

jimbos'ss

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i haz these cheezburgerz........................

elecblue06

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a cookie and mehbeh some other things maybe a sticker saying you sponsored me

mrsilent13

both of you are hilarious.....but i do like the idea of that sticker....lol...but no

ive been wanting some recaros too....or something like them.....ill probably get some of those too

pjk91

I don't want to read 17pgs worth. Did you dyno?

RooTBeeR

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no, he didnt

mrsilent13

i was about to dyno and then it broke

RedBaseBolt

What broke?

And I'm not surprised by the way you were driving it in the vids...no offence man but you were beating on the car hard.

mrsilent13

well the tune was fine....till i got to about 6k rpm it started to lean out....so me and vince went to change the tune....and with the new file that he sent me i went for a cruise to try it out.....and we wanted to accomplish a complete WOT at the redline of 7200....but for some reason it choked up.....and it leaned out real bad....so now she just sits in my parking spot.....im not too worried about it.....well im not worried about it all....im not even sad or mad....im actually kinda glad now.....i was waiting for it to break so that i could have a reason to break into the dam engine.....but no i wasnt beating on it.....not until the day it broke....but im not really sure what broke yet.....im thinking its the valvetrain.....but i dont know since i havent opened her up yet....but i can tell you that it doesnt hold any kind of compression at idle

pjk91

what kind of afr's were you seeing up top when it **** the bed? when we were initially tuning my 2.4, we had some lean spikes because it wouldn't go into PE. I personally saw my car hit 16.4 afr for a maximum of .5 seconds 3-4 consecutive hits. Still going strong though...how long did you hold in the throttle when you busted it?