- Mar 20, 2012
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Ok, heres the deal, My car has 150k on it and is smoking fairly worse everyday, time for a re build, replace. I have been looking to buy some complete motors out of wrecked mustang and I was able to find a couple like 60k miles complete motor for 1500$. How ever, if I was able to pull it off and it be worth it I could sell my bike and build my own.
I dont want to go crazy but id want a fairly solid bottom end, not shooting to make 500hp or anything and wont be running boost but im not really sure what all goes into a bottom end as iv only had to build the bottom end of a motor once and it was a 5.0 that we bored to a 306 and did forged internals and i was like 16 at the time.
I guess what im trying to find out is what all is in the bottom end that would need to be replaced to make it stronger as I feel the bottom end of the 2v is anything but impressive.. id probably be keeping stock heads maybe ported or something but at least for now im kinda on a budgett and want to keep it realistic. but i figured if you going to build it I should start from the bottom up. Thanks for any positive/negative input ahead of time!
motor right now has just boltons, on a tune, gears, ect..tthanks again!!,
after doing some more reasearch i have more questions!!!
can I just do forged pistons (je,manley) and forged rods (manley H) with the stock crank?
if so what CC pistions and whats the bore on them, another thing, with that many miles do i need to have the block machined before installing forged pistons or will that not be a problem?
I dont want to go crazy but id want a fairly solid bottom end, not shooting to make 500hp or anything and wont be running boost but im not really sure what all goes into a bottom end as iv only had to build the bottom end of a motor once and it was a 5.0 that we bored to a 306 and did forged internals and i was like 16 at the time.
I guess what im trying to find out is what all is in the bottom end that would need to be replaced to make it stronger as I feel the bottom end of the 2v is anything but impressive.. id probably be keeping stock heads maybe ported or something but at least for now im kinda on a budgett and want to keep it realistic. but i figured if you going to build it I should start from the bottom up. Thanks for any positive/negative input ahead of time!
motor right now has just boltons, on a tune, gears, ect..tthanks again!!,
after doing some more reasearch i have more questions!!!
can I just do forged pistons (je,manley) and forged rods (manley H) with the stock crank?
if so what CC pistions and whats the bore on them, another thing, with that many miles do i need to have the block machined before installing forged pistons or will that not be a problem?