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Originally Posted by nickw14
The main reason I want to do a swap is to be able to hold more power. A friend of mine told a story of a guy he knew who turbo'd his BRZ, had Dynosty tune it to around 400whp and very shortly after cracked his casing. He said that the moral of the story to him was that the FA20 simply cannot hold that kind of power (there's still room for other explanations, the biggest being a bad tune).
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Seems to be how everything starts.
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Originally Posted by nickw14
I will search around for that research by FBM. In my opinion, $6k for 350whp is pretty steep. And even then our motor (I was previously told) topped out around 400 stock and then around 500 with some forged internals.
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Says the guy that wants to spend the cost of his car on an engine swap that'll make 250whp before requiring more $$ to be thrown at it.
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Originally Posted by nickw14
I sense the sarcasm in your reply. Please understand that I am skeptical about the fa20 just because of the bad experiences I have heard of. Bad experiences speak so much louder than good ones.
You're completely right, and that's why I hate to throw even one more argument out there :P
It's not that I need more than 350whp, it's that the power to price ratio seems to be so much higher than that of other engines. I don't think that I would be putting $20k into an sr swap. While I don't have any experience in swapping engines, I am fully confident that it could be done for less than $10k, if not less than $6k (since the engine and trans is only $2500).
You're 100% correct that 350whp on a car that, while I don't daily it I do drive it quite a bit, would be more than enough. However, am I willing to put $6k into a kit that will get it there only to find out that I will probably need a built motor to go any higher should I desire to in the future? I really don't know. I suppose there is always the option of putting my own "kit" together piece by piece, that would surely be much cheaper.
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You only ever hear about the bad experiences. No one goes on and on about the good. Not to mention these are word of mouth 'experiences' according to you.
If you can do an SR20 swap for less than 6k without any experience in engine swapping, you might be able to cure aids and solve world hunger as well.