Just got a rough guide of all my parts for the rebuild, will be looking around about £6000! think ive gone over kill at the moment saying ive only was looking to spend £2000 lol started out being a minor rebuild, pistons and recon the turbos keeping standard injectors etc. then i got carried away building a monster lol large turbos, upgraded cams, injectors, etc etc lol.

might go back to orignal plan for time being lol.

tbh mate it would be better and cheaper to do it properly now rather than rebuild it now with lesser components and regret not putting more into it and ending up rebuilding it again.

Theres a rebuild and theres building a high powered motor that requires specific parts to be stronger and better. At 6K he's clearly priced up the latter.

It should cost no more than 1.5K for just the parts ( excluding turbo's) for a good rebuild. Anything more and your fitting parts that may not actually be required.

Rebuild parts though can consist of anything, but generally speaking would be pistons/rings, full gasket set, New bolt head set, big end bearings, oil pump, water pump, cambelt kit. Optional is rods and new valves for the heads.

Smithy

hi smithy, the list you got there was what i was thinking of for 2k with rods. i really just want the engine to be strong and reilable. and most of this wont need doing again if i then decide in future to upgrade.

 

thanks all

Yep, well pretty much that list should cost about 1.5K, infact a wee bit less if bought from the US. I put rods down as optional simply cos ours are already forged, the only non forged parts in our block our the pistons.

But still a good idea for the small added cost and peace of mind.

The above spec, yep is strong enough for some decent power later on if need be.

 

Once you buy that lot and thinking ahead, i would suggest a smallish 5 bolt set of turbo's like the ones mentioned in spindoctors thread yesterday or JWT530's. Simply because these are the biggest added expense for fitting in the future, it doesn't matter if you don't use their full potential now, the option is there for the future subject to funding. As additional parts that are needed to make these babies sing! are not expensive to buy or fit later on ;)

Good luck fella!

smithy

Edited May 30, 200916 yr by Smithy