whats up everyone....i have a 93 LS goin to start to rebuild the whole motor.
wanting to start at the bottom end. what are the best pistons and rods to get and how much should i bore it over

 

Soo you want to go NA?

 

Well how much of a bugget do you have first?

 

i dont want any turbo and i dont wanna do a ls vtec................just wanna build my motor it only has 70k on it i am lookin to spend around 3 grand on it.....i wanna get good stuff but it doesnt have to be the absolute best....what do u recomend in pistons and rods

 

as far as NA is concerd (sp?) I would do as much as to head as possable. BUT IMO i would go with ITRs for the block.

 

i think he's just trying to do a normal rebuild, not one of those crazy 12.5:1 compression piston rebuilds

if that's the case, i would stick with oem parts. when i did my rebuild, i bought ITR pistons for an extra kick, so maybe you should concider getting ITR pistons, oem ls rods blah blah blah.

and if you learn anything about rebuilds on h-t, it's the HELMS.


[Modified by HKJ, 9:46 PM 2/23/2003]

 

b16 or R pistons not sure on price
crower 403 with valve train 900 plus install
Intake manifold 300

all depends on if u can do the work yourself, if u can u can do more becasue it will cost less.

 

head.......skunk2 intake manifold, port and polished head, crower stage 2 cams with retainer/spring kit, aem cam gears, stock ls valves, would i be able to use my stock valve train with those stage 2 crower cams they are part #62403 on crower.com......

with the head done that way would i need to do my fuel.......what cam gears?

 

forget the what cam gears at the end of that post

 

with those crowers you would definately need new valvesprings... stock retainers should be okay. if you are going to raise the redline for those cams ( i dont know what their powerband is) you might want to get them nitride coated... what are your power goals???? because getting high number on SOHC NA is a tough adventure (you definately can make some decent numbers w/ the right parts but it gets expensive just like an NA or FI setup).

 

SOHC, arent we talkn about a b18a?

 

yeah u need the valve train for 403's

i wouldent get the AEM cam gears i have heard of them slipping, go with skunk2

 

yeah we are talkin bout a B18a1 dohc.........so you think everything else in the head sounds pretty good except the aem gears?

 

what do u know about the jg 301 cams i have been told they are better than the crowers?