3800 Stuck on what to do...

[GTPictor]

Ok I am stuck with a problem. I can have this motor built by march/april with almost everything done or i could wait till mid summerish and get the two remaining parts for the car that would help it imho alot. The parts im talking about is a custom billit aluminum crank for around 3g and titanium rods for around 3g. If i dont get these im stuck with stock crank which might be a problem and crowel rods which are hardcore but titanium is the best. With the custom stuff i can rev at around 10,000 with the other 7,000. After all the money ive dumped into this car im stuck wondering if i should go all out now or wait and have the crank built in the next year or two. Plus i dont want to regret not putting in the custom crank in if the stock one causes a problem and destroy's all ive put in so far. Thanks for all your help. GTPictor.

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[SHODOG4]

Honestly, it depends on what you want to do with the car. Since I think you'll be doing a lot of daily driving with it, Id say go with the stock crank and Crower rods. I doubt you'll be wanting to rev it out to 10k every day and besides which, generally speaking engines that rev that high arent as reliable as ones that are designed for lower RPM's. Just my opinion bro B)

 

[GTPictor]

I doubt you'll be wanting to rev it out to 10k every day and besides which, generally speaking engines that rev that high arent as reliable as ones that are designed for lower RPM's.

Thats what i thought but its all light weight and stronger than most and completely balnced and he assures me it can do it. Also ill have 2 PCM's one for strip and one for street and the street ill set to like 7-8g and strip 10,000. So it should be ok.

 

[mybluegtp]

Just go for it all the way!!!

 

[iliveonnitro]

Just build a race motor and have a race pcm, and drop it in for the track whenever you go, and save the other one for daily driving.

That kind of defeats the purpose of street racing though.

If you can resist driving hard, just keep the same pcm.



I would just put the money into a car that can hit 8 or 9's tho. If you really want to go "all out" on your car, you might as well gut it and put in a roll cage and wheelie bar...maybe you'll hit low 10s or so. Either way, wait for the stuff until summer, im sure you wont regret it.

 

[GTPictor]

Cage and Weelie bar are late summer money permitting and am working on having two pcm's in the car at one with a switch to choose between the two.

 

[CoolGTX]

id wait, and do it right the first time.....

 

[superchargedgp]

Originally posted by CoolGTX@Dec 13 2003, 09:13 PM
id wait, and do it right the first time.....

thats what i told him

 

[GTPictor]

Ok ill wait or whatnot. Was wondering then what is the best metal to use for the crank then forged, billit aluminum....?