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lol its far from "baller". it was built well though. rotating assembly balanced to the gram, everything blueprinted. block was fully disassembled and hot tanked. cylinders honed, valves were professionally cleaned and reseated. all new parts seals, bearings, gaskets, oil pump, water pump, timing chain kit. every step of the assembly was torqued to spec. even the 7 in pound bolts on the front cover to the 44lb specs for the brackets. I'll tell you whats scary, cam shaft sprocket bolts 130+ ft lb torque. I swear you'd think it was going to break a cam. scared me every time I did it. (jim wolf adjustable cam sprockets)
The result is an engine with immaculate compression, not a drop leaking anywhere, and now the rich problem is gone it doesn't even remotely smoke. and the engine temp stays a notch below the half way mark. the noisiest part of the engine are the injectors. not even the slightest valve tick. Im proud of it. I took my time and did it right. its got 950 miles on it lol.
Today some dude in a decked out crown vic v8 (ghetto rims, exhaust, paint job god knows what else) felt the need to race me. those are rated around 250hp I'd say he was probably more like 200hp but either way I was walking him. pulling away nice and steady.
I don't have it dyno'd but i built this thing to have around 200hp N/A. Its why I balanced the rotating assembly. to squeeze as much hp out of it as possible. i knew it wouldn't be much but with everything else I did, It could only help. This thing pulls like crazy for an N/A. Id like to put it up against a stock SR20DET to see how it holds up.
I do plan on turbo. I wanna do suspension mods and get some wheels first though.
Once its turbo'd then it'll be baller, lol
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