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75000 miles on stock engine..what to do

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Old 12-15-2006, 11:24 AM
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Old 12-15-2006, 12:07 PM
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I said SC... 75K is nothing if it was well maintained. I would go turbo if you have the money but SC is usually more realistic for most of us.... dont know about you though.
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Build the top end and wait for the bottom to drop. If its been driven hard. It wouldnt be long
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Old 12-15-2006, 12:44 PM
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Easy decision... Supercharge it. And down teh road when it finally goes, then at least you still have a great supercharger you can bolt onto a new engine.
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I voted for teh blowa!
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i voted the last one.

pill it till you kill it.
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Old 12-15-2006, 02:35 PM
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Old 12-15-2006, 02:36 PM
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If it were me...

Id skip the sc or whatever until later, first give it a rebuild if you dont know whats going on inside and can do it yourself. Its either a few hundred to rebuild a stocker or a couple thousand for a stroker. Do the rebuild, then if you 'have' to have it strap an sc or turbo whatever to it. Once you get the stroker later youll 'hopefully' still have a decent stock block left over to resell to recover some of the stroker cost. Or just buy the stroker now and sell the stocker as it is right now for a 4cyl swap, somebody will take it. Why blow the stocker when somebody else could use it?

Like i said, if it were me. Just my opinion.
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I said SC... 75K is nothing if it was well maintained. I would go turbo if you have the money but SC is usually more realistic for most of us.... dont know about you though.
why not it's not your engine
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