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Originally Posted by SlickWillyFRS
Could you please elaborate? Thanks
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http://www.ft86club.com/forums/showthread.php?t=113511
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Sportsguy83
"My main concern has always been the FA20 at that power level. The only way I would consider the FA20 reliable at those power levels, is getting an engine built by FullBlown or MAP performance or any of these shops, which hover around $6K price tag + shipping, + swapping cost + giving up your engine as a core. This total adds up to close to $10k.
Finally, after you get your amazing built motor, you’re still left to deal with the glass transmission (glass at least at those power levels). Additionally, there are no easy fixes for the transmission. Everything to make it stronger starts at around $6K, plus labor costs and some of the offerings do to rate it past 350 TQ.
Several years ago I went through the forged motor path and know firsthand it can be a rocky one. A number of people don’t realize that building a motor does not mean it will be forever bulletproof, that even at a lower than rated power they can blow by a number of factors. I’ve had to work blood, sweat and tears for a motor and see it blow just a few hours after it got done.
I had been on the brink of doing a swap before but was turned off by the astronomical costs of swapping an engine and especially with the fact of dealing with the CANBUS system in the car.
Crunching out numbers, selling my FA20, glassbox, turbo kit, and added the above value $$, it makes for a reasonable budget to allow for the motor swap. This of course is also made possible because I have a good trustworthy shop, with tons of experience swapping engines and doing custom fab work in KAB Customs.
The only two options on my mind were 2JZ and LS. Bang for buck wise and with my intended N/A build, the LS made more sense to me."
^This.