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I'm still saling my car "half-heartedly," and so I may just keep it 'cause I'm sorta "glued" to it (you know what I mean). Well, the previous owner rebuilt my engine about 6k miles ago (before I bought it of course). He said he took it apart, had the crankshaft polished, put new bearings in, and he put hyperteunic pistons in (b/c he couldn't afford new forged ones at the time). So, I have a question, I'm not in to all the upgrading the heads, intake, yata yata right now, I want to supercharge my engine (MM&FF "Blown Stock & Ready to Rock" article comes to mind). Well, I was wondering what the best option for me to do was? When he rebuilt the engine, he didn't bore the cylinders (he said they were fine) so do you think I can just use the same block, have them bored 0.30 over, and put forged pistons, and maybe manly h-beam rods if I can afford them in it? Or, do you think I should just order a 302/306 from Alternative Automotive that already has forged pistons. I have an engine stand so I suppose I'll tackle all installation myself (to save money, but of course I'll have a professional dyno tune the engine w/ the SCer on it for safety). So, any suggestion? I don't really think I want to try to use the hypertuenic pistons w/ the supercharger. I'm not wanting to run a lot of boost, maybe 6-8#s for now though. Thanks for the help in advance
I'm still saling my car "half-heartedly," and so I may just keep it 'cause I'm sorta "glued" to it (you know what I mean). Well, the previous owner rebuilt my engine about 6k miles ago (before I bought it of course). He said he took it apart, had the crankshaft polished, put new bearings in, and he put hyperteunic pistons in (b/c he couldn't afford new forged ones at the time). So, I have a question, I'm not in to all the upgrading the heads, intake, yata yata right now, I want to supercharge my engine (MM&FF "Blown Stock & Ready to Rock" article comes to mind). Well, I was wondering what the best option for me to do was? When he rebuilt the engine, he didn't bore the cylinders (he said they were fine) so do you think I can just use the same block, have them bored 0.30 over, and put forged pistons, and maybe manly h-beam rods if I can afford them in it? Or, do you think I should just order a 302/306 from Alternative Automotive that already has forged pistons. I have an engine stand so I suppose I'll tackle all installation myself (to save money, but of course I'll have a professional dyno tune the engine w/ the SCer on it for safety). So, any suggestion? I don't really think I want to try to use the hypertuenic pistons w/ the supercharger. I'm not wanting to run a lot of boost, maybe 6-8#s for now though. Thanks for the help in advance