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Old 02-09-2018, 10:07 AM   #7
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Originally Posted by 8RZ View Post
I'd much rather dump that money into fully-building up the FA and boosting it.
A fully built FA20 may still throw an arm rocker through the valve cover, may still get a P0016/18 code whose fixing may require up to replacing the ECU (among other sensitive annoyances of the FA20), while also still needing to beef up the transmission, which cheapest is swapping a CD009 from a 350Z in place at a cost of around $4k.....


After adding up building the motor, turbo kit with all supporting mods, upgrading trans, you're already in swap money territory where you'll get a more reliable, proven and known motor and transmission that will hold strong for years to come.
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