I got a 97 ek hatchback with a gsr swap. I had it turbo for a while the motor was all stock it only had a skunk 2 manifold. I want to build my motor. What kind of pistons to u guy recomend? Should i sleeve my block. I have t3\t4 .63 trim. My car pulled hard an it made crazy power. But I want more power now.thanks for ur help. Any suggestions will help me out too.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by turbo_ek97 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I got a 97 ek hatchback with a gsr swap. I had it turbo for a while the motor was all stock it only had a skunk 2 manifold. I want to build my motor. What kind of pistons to u guy recomend? Should i sleeve my block. I have t3\t4 .63 trim. My car pulled hard an it made crazy power. But I want more power now.thanks for ur help. Any suggestions will help me out too.</TD></TR></TABLE>

-I used SRP (JE) pistons, i have heard good things about CP pistons, there is likely a thread that compaires different pistons. Check the faq or search for it.
-The skunk2 intake should be changed, it is pretty well known that there are much better manifolds for turbocharged hondas. Try a victor x or rev hard manifold.
-What are your power goals, "more power" is quite vague, and from how your setup sounds probably ~270hp and higher would be more power.
-Was your car tuned/dyno'd?
GL.

 

It was never tuned did not have the funds now I do. I was goint to get the victor x manifold. My goal is 400-500 whp with neptune or hondata. Wich one would u recommend?

 

your current turbo will only support 450ish wheel horsepower and thats at relatively high boost levels.
as far as sleeves, beson, ge or darton mid (what i personally use)
pistons - cp
rods - manley, crower, pauter, cunningham (i dont like eagles)
bearings - acl
oil pump - itr
headgasket - oem
and other little misc stuff.

the edelbrock is a good manifold if all you want is top end power, its deigsn to work from 6k on and below that it actually lost power compared to a stock intake mani. your best bet and best for the budget would be to just port the intake manifold that you have now

 

stroke it if ur gonna do internals and put a bigger turbo thats for sure

 

why storke it, the only thing you could do is put the ls crank in it, but if you do like a 95mm eagle crank, the mean piston speed becomes so great that you cannot rev the motor higher than 7k at most, youd simply overstress the pistons to the point that they would self destruct

 

I was going to keep it a stock bore an only put some pistons,rods an port an polished my head. An get it tune good