$15,000 in performance parts what would you get?

[mikeyVR4]

Remain BPU and get some nice Bolt-on TD04. Driving the car/enjoying it should be key and not have the car in a garage half the time since most members went way too far into modifications. I would rather jump into my car, start it up, and drive without any worries. I dont want to end up hating my car like I have read so many times on the "other" site.

[mikeyVR4]

When using a ARC2, does this force your BOV to stay recirculating?

[TurboSinceBirth]

I'd stay away from a 6G72 stroker or a 6G74 motor. For $15k you won't be able to do everything. I don't think it's a really smart move to go that big anyways because TD04s are useless on a 3.5L motor choking them up top. I wouldn't go any smaller than DR-1000s personally on a 3.5L. Stick with some DR-750s and be done with it. The car will be simple and much more enjoyable. Once you go beyond TD04 turbos you don't realize everything that's involved until you start building the car because plenty of other things come up that have to be fixed, replaced, or upgraded because these cars are getting old. Once you start digging in it's hard not to do everything at once.

[MADMarc]

For 15k?! I'd do a DR750 build, stroke my 440 block to a 500 and buy a Challenger to put it in

[vr4_rider]

stroker + single kit! yeaaahhhhh, baby!!

[Austin@STM]

What is your deffinition of an enjoyable car. Everyone likes different things, and basically you just have to look through everyones builds and see what you like about them and what you dont.

Here's how i spent about 15k including buying the car. I think its enjoyable (call me crazy), reliable as possible, i hop in it every morning to go to work.

It's been done! 10.95@124.77 on Stock 9b's/Motor

Hope that gives you some different ideas. I made the car how i want it, i wanted to push the stock turbos but everything i did was also set up for my real goal of big power in the end.

Set a goal for the car, and then start buying the parts to get it there.

-Austin@STM

[futurevr4man]

I respectfully disagree with you, mainly because all of what you did is nice and all. However if you're going 74 you aren't staying TD04 are you? Which means manifolds, turbos ect. I only say this from having a built 72 with DR800s.

i just dont understand how you can disagree when i have built my car from the ground up, having to buy the entire engine, transfer case (luckily not a trans though), rolling chassis, belts, fluids, heads, everything for 13k. i say to people i have about 14k in it because by now i probably do. i have gone blow thru now, and everything associated with that.

as i said, if you can do the work yourself, 15k is more than enough to build a 6g74 monster. i guarantee i could build a 3.7-3.9L shortblock for less than 5k. that leaves you 10k to do top end, turbos, and find the little weird pieces you need to make power steering and junk work.

one day i will build my dream engine. when i get done i will add everything up and find you and let you know how much it is. it seems people dont understand that there is technology out there that has already been proven and just needs to be adapted for our cars. getting custom pistons/rods made is only as expensive as 3sx charges for their forged pistons rods... and we all know how much they mark up the price on everything. i have done the math, i promise you its doable. 15k is a lot to spend on a motor, but thats what *I* would do with it.

[vr4_rider]

Is it true that e85 is not really e85, but it could be a range from e70 to e98?

[TurboSinceBirth]

Is it true that e85 is not really e85, but it could be a range from e70 to e98?

It would never be as high as e98. The highest it would ever be is E85. During the winter it's a lot lower than that and even during the other seasons it may not be as close to E85 as you think. That's why it's good to do a water test at the pump to see what concentration of ethanol you have in the fuel.

[Austin@STM]

Is it true that e85 is not really e85, but it could be a range from e70 to e98?

yes this is true for sure. There isnt much of a differnece though up here at least. Not enough people use it so by the time they put e85 in there is still a lot of 70 left andand it all kind of mixes together. We've never really noticed a huge difference when the stations switch because of this. It is something to pay attention to though.