2.0-2.3L type 4 engine, my journey to enlightenment, Or why the F can't I just drive my car! Options

[bohalrantipol]

I have been working on my 914 for almost 20 years now and have never actually posted info about it. I have read and re-read on this and various other versions of this forum for a long long time and figured it was time to step from the dark dankness of the internet shadows and actually contribute some (also I have questions that remain unanswered, so lots of selfish motivation still abounds).

And now I have to be honest and say I have neglected the poor thing for the past 6 years. It has been sitting patiently waiting for me to finally finish my PhD, get married, and medicate my boundless ADD, most of which has now been accomplished!

I am hoping with a little encouragement and advice I can stay on track and get this thing done over the next few months, barring any ridiculous life crap (which always comes along).

So what are my hopes and dreams?
-2260cc engine
-Megasquirt
-fun times

Thats it! I really feel like that should be easy right? HA!

[bohalrantipol]

All good info! keep it coming please!

I am a bit of a "i am going to do everything myself" kind of guy...a bit of a control freak you might say. Can anyone see any reason why a master cylinder hone would not work? I suppose I could buy a new tool, that is always fun. I do plan on taking the block to the machine shop as I literally have done everything I can possible think of to get that f'ing stud out: Heated it, welded on nuts, slotted it and used a hammer driver, started to use my drill press on it broke two bits and before I decided to melt the thing down for scrap, I quit.
So maybe I should bite the bullet and get them to do the rods too, but I am a stubborn SOB.

Ah good ole ideal gas law. I had thought about the extra heat and was considering adding a front mount oil cooler and/or an ethanol mix/spray. Maybe even a better method of cooling ala' RATs DTM, or better yet the Orange adapto corsair setup to combat the extra heat. You really think 8.5-9 is the tops? seems really low to me...

But lets say I can manage the heat, at what point do I need to worry about different head bolts/thru-bolts?