QUOTE(ConeDodger @ Nov 22 2013, 06:35 AM)
What about your motor Randall? Pull the jugs and pistons, go with low compression forged pistons and Nickies. Have Mark make sparks for a turbo exhaust system. Coil-on-plug crank fired. ITB's and an intercooler then hang on!
Go drive Mark's car then realize, this is a completely stock 1.7 internally that acts like a 2270...
I really hate to mess with my motor after all the $$ spent. It works and was built by someone who actually knows what he'd doing. Also everything in that motor was carefully procured, checked and or tested before it was assembled. The J&E pistons were rejected 5 times until J&E machined what they were told to do.
Also Len Hoffman says that my heads, while great, are not the best for a turbo setup. Also my cam would need to be changed.
So probably a build starting from scratch.
BTW everyone points to Elgin as the best cam guy around, but would need to figure out which cam would support Hoffman turbo heads best. This unfortunately is a crap shoot that might come out right, but might not and to be honest I don't feel like going on a exploratory journey again. So....
It's pretty easy to look at building a 2.7 or 3.2 liter (6) as there are plenty of folks that have run turbo's porsches and the head/cam combinations are well know. Also the motors are readily available and reasonable. I could run E Mod in SCCA with essential no weight penalty other than the actual weight, if you know what I mean. EMOD would allow up to a 3.2 liter turbo and still the minimum weight would be 1700# with driver. My actual would be more like 1850-1900# with driver.
The big deal would be finding a light weight transmission that was strong and shifted fast. A sequential would be nice, but bring $10-15K. I've heard that Subi gear boxes can be converted to work with a Porsche motor and are strong and shift fast, even if they aren't sequential.
As far as hill climbs I'd probably have to change classes, but with 300RWHP (conservative) I wouldn't mind running with the big modified cars. Could you imagine what 300+RWHP would be like on a hill?