The build might take awhile..or it might be done tommorrow...who know.
Prior Stats:
Swapped out the 260 motor, and dropped in some built motor with no real speks, but it ran, and it kept up to some cars, when it ran right.
Known stats on the the blown motor:
N47 block, N47 head, un-known pistons, mention of a race cam, blahh, blahh blahh....short story...blew the motor due to low oil levels on a long corner at a race track trying to drift, at high RPMs...the con rod didn't like to stay in the block...it tried to escape.
The next motor:
Known stats:
F54 Block and P90 head, rebuilt, had 800 miles on it...freebee.
Some new clutch, looks heafty, looks like it needs a cleaning.
It's actually a motor from a Turbo 81-83 280 ZX, but rebuilt and stuffed in a car and converted to carbs...800 miles and the car got t-boned...intake/exhaust many removed for some time while it sat in the backyard at a buddies house for a long time....maybe a year or so.
Decision time...
Should I tear it down, look it over, re-rebuild it and hope the rings didn't get rained on and rusted to the cylinder walls? Or just clean it up, stuff it in the Z, and run it until it blows up.....again...and hope for the best. Then hurry and get to the CRX re-build while my union and company are still on strike?
If I rebuilt it, then I would want to go full bore...hunt down a crank from a diesel Maxima, bore the block, locate six 240SX KA24DE pistons, 240Z con rods, a 1-2mm metal head gasket, and build up a 3.1 stroker...and have torque and power from hell....and then the next question for the stroker motor is....carbs, FI, or go all the way out and boost it....? I can slightly afford it...but to the extent of parting it together with used parts, except the head gasket...and then I'll have to FMU it, or get some kind of fuel management...
Another option...
Drop it in, hook it up to the old setup, and have another running car....in my situation...thats just about my only option right now.
And the last option...screw the stroker idea, just find a 280ZX ECU/harness, find a t3/t4 turbo, I already have the turbo exhaust mani, and fab up the exhaust for full boost.
The car is in the garage right now thawing out, and I'll yank the old motor out tommorrow.
So......
Simple swap...hope for the best...save $$$ for something else...?
Simple swap...Slap some $1000 side draft carbs on it....and roll...?
Simple swap...Turbo it for about $800..and roll?
Simple swap...Fab up some ITB's...and roll?
Simple swap...wait till money comes in, and buy another built engine and do another swap?
Slight rebuild...double check all internals...slap back in and run...?
Major rebuild...go stroker, hope more money comes in...carbs...?
Major rebuild...go stroker, hope more money comes in...Stock FI...?
Major rebuild...go stroker, hope more money comes in...Turbo...?
Go all out, part out the CRX and Civic, Order a Rebello Engine, swap and kick the crap out of all the cars in the region?
Right now...I'm leaning towards to just getting the car driftable again, HP sounds like fun, but I also have the crx build to do. If this engine can get me thru the season of hard abuse, I'll be happy. And I want to also have the CRX rolling before the first autocross, and it's going to be turbo, so some time to tune it will be needed...
Plus I want to get both the CRX and the Z painted this year...
/end another post posted while drunk.....
Prior Stats:
Swapped out the 260 motor, and dropped in some built motor with no real speks, but it ran, and it kept up to some cars, when it ran right.
Known stats on the the blown motor:
N47 block, N47 head, un-known pistons, mention of a race cam, blahh, blahh blahh....short story...blew the motor due to low oil levels on a long corner at a race track trying to drift, at high RPMs...the con rod didn't like to stay in the block...it tried to escape.
The next motor:
Known stats:
F54 Block and P90 head, rebuilt, had 800 miles on it...freebee.
Some new clutch, looks heafty, looks like it needs a cleaning.
It's actually a motor from a Turbo 81-83 280 ZX, but rebuilt and stuffed in a car and converted to carbs...800 miles and the car got t-boned...intake/exhaust many removed for some time while it sat in the backyard at a buddies house for a long time....maybe a year or so.
Decision time...
Should I tear it down, look it over, re-rebuild it and hope the rings didn't get rained on and rusted to the cylinder walls? Or just clean it up, stuff it in the Z, and run it until it blows up.....again...and hope for the best. Then hurry and get to the CRX re-build while my union and company are still on strike?
If I rebuilt it, then I would want to go full bore...hunt down a crank from a diesel Maxima, bore the block, locate six 240SX KA24DE pistons, 240Z con rods, a 1-2mm metal head gasket, and build up a 3.1 stroker...and have torque and power from hell....and then the next question for the stroker motor is....carbs, FI, or go all the way out and boost it....? I can slightly afford it...but to the extent of parting it together with used parts, except the head gasket...and then I'll have to FMU it, or get some kind of fuel management...
Another option...
Drop it in, hook it up to the old setup, and have another running car....in my situation...thats just about my only option right now.
And the last option...screw the stroker idea, just find a 280ZX ECU/harness, find a t3/t4 turbo, I already have the turbo exhaust mani, and fab up the exhaust for full boost.
The car is in the garage right now thawing out, and I'll yank the old motor out tommorrow.
So......
Simple swap...hope for the best...save $$$ for something else...?
Simple swap...Slap some $1000 side draft carbs on it....and roll...?
Simple swap...Turbo it for about $800..and roll?
Simple swap...Fab up some ITB's...and roll?
Simple swap...wait till money comes in, and buy another built engine and do another swap?
Slight rebuild...double check all internals...slap back in and run...?
Major rebuild...go stroker, hope more money comes in...carbs...?
Major rebuild...go stroker, hope more money comes in...Stock FI...?
Major rebuild...go stroker, hope more money comes in...Turbo...?
Go all out, part out the CRX and Civic, Order a Rebello Engine, swap and kick the crap out of all the cars in the region?
Right now...I'm leaning towards to just getting the car driftable again, HP sounds like fun, but I also have the crx build to do. If this engine can get me thru the season of hard abuse, I'll be happy. And I want to also have the CRX rolling before the first autocross, and it's going to be turbo, so some time to tune it will be needed...
Plus I want to get both the CRX and the Z painted this year...
/end another post posted while drunk.....
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