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Originally Posted by RalliartRsX
......and we're off topic lol
King, as mentioned, thanks for the input. I never once mentioned my power goals or end use of the engine, so not sure why you are making these assumptions or posts. I simply asked if the bores were good and the answer was received. Let's leave it at that. You have your experience and build and although apprevised is fairly outdated and antiquated information.
I refuse to trust any long block I pickup as quiet frankly, these enfines are almost 30 years old! Technology allows us ro rebuild stronger and more reliably and regardless of the experience you have had, IMHO is does not reflect what I have personally witnessed and experienced and is somewhat removed from reality.
Again, I very well appreciate the input, but I do have a certain pland in mind and I am going to stick to what I know works.
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by all means progress. However I would kindly ask that for the sake of our community you keep us updated with the progress and mileage of the engine as you use it.
I don't know anybody with 50k on a rebuilt sr20, or even 30k with an aftermarket bearing. Some people rebuild them and just don't drive them much. Many fail without any report; what you see "failures" is only a small fraction of what truly exists (many are too embarrassed) and we have quite a fair number of confirmed failures from folk who weren't too embarrassed.
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Originally Posted by RalliartRsX
I never once mentioned my power goals or end use of the engine, so not sure why you are making these assumptions or posts.
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As to this statement I think the anwer is obvious; everybody wants infinity horsepower as a goal. Nobody shoots for minimum power, that is upside down. You want the max you can squeeze given the constraints of the budget and materials available (parts and juices) and how far you intend to drive it (or how long), which is cost(
budget) to failures(
limits of materials) ratio given a particular power output(
X is
power, a variable approaching infinity) comes from, and we use miles (
distance) as the unit of measure for how far the money, parts and power actually drives you down the road in a daily driver comparison (it can be converted to years or track days, for example, as a unit of measure for non-daily drivers)