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Originally Posted by xcharlesy
for the rest of this month I'll be making 2 trips, and of course to the occasional track days, but I don't see an issue with investing some faith into these cars
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It is not a matter of faith, these engines are pretty reliable as long as you service them. It is a matter of cost. Maintenance is high on these. If you are going to drive a lot, get a car that is meant for this. You could even get both ... i promise the cost of buying a second car used to put miles on it and S13/S14 tuned car will be covered very fast. And also allows you to work on the S chassis with peace of mind as you wont have a deadline. TBH i tried running my S13 only for a year, and it had a lighter build than this one. I quickly bought another car for daily driving.
As far as 240 go, i highly suggest you dont put 7k in your first one. You always get screwed up on the first, unless you really know the seller (and i mean it, like he has been a friend for years). So better be screwed for 2K than 7K. You WILL be throwing money at it anyway.
I really have trouble with that build TBH. Maybe i am paranoid, or have too high standards, but if you wrote exactly what you got from the seller, then by all mean i would STAY AWAY from it.
GT2871RS ? That is a chinese ebay turbo.
Resleeved ? Why ? Yes you can put darton sleeve in it, but no one in their right mind would do that on a sub 400hp engine. Heck even 500+ HP SRs i know dont do that either, and they get drifted all day long. Sleeving is an expensive operation that really is not needed unless you are aiming for 600-700HP figures.
Nismo pistons: why ? A lot of manufacturers make better and cheaper pistons than these. They are quite obsolete now, yet their price has not gone down. No one would rebuild an engine today with these.
70lbs MSD injectors are delphi based, these are quite old tech. I'd really not use that, they are a pain to map with.
Short shifters tend to wear down the gearbox synchros quicker;
finally revving to 8000 without a lot of headwork (like high lift cams, oversized valves) is an absolute nonsense, as it does not make any power there.
I would not spend more than 3000$ on it. It SCREAMS trouble. I have a hard time believing someone would resleeve an SR20 to run it with a crappy ebay turbo (or even a real garrett gt2871r ... there is no point ). Somewhere i dont believe the engine has been rebuilt with all that. Or it was sold at some point to someone who went cheap on it, and thats no good either.