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Originally Posted by GrabTheWheel
I'd love to see a poll of people who regularly track their car boosted and how long their engines lasted. OP you are a lucky SOB to a a have your engine last that long. I think anything over 250 WHP and you're asking for trouble if you intend to do any REAL driving. I'm also pretty certain that peoples stock motors are lasting longer than "built FA20's" even at only 300 WHP. If I could go back in time I would've engine swapped A LONG time ago instead of wasting money on the FA20. If you're not happy with 200-250 WHP either engine swap or this is not the car for you.
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I drove pretty hard on mines. I have the vortech kit. It didn't make to much torque. Just roughly +100wtq from stock. I don't think those torque numbers hurt the motor than much. I think the key to longevity is to keep the torque low. A lot of turbo kits making 300+whp will make 300+ wtq.
It's like the general rule with the evox is to never tune the torque over 400wtq since the rods are the first to go, but you can run up to 500whp safely all day if you are below 400wtq on completely stock internals.