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so most of us know about my engine woes but for those that don't I've been having problems with strange oil pump wear on my forged b18, I swapped over to a c4 block to get me by thinking that it's my engine building skills letting me down. This c4 makes metal aswell(yet to check pump)
I'm boosted and run anything from 0.4bar(260hp) upto 1bar (350hp) and I Rev up to 8.8k.
Anyway been through afew different combinations of engine and parts and still no joy as of yet.
Advice I'm after is do I stick with it hoping to eventually hit the issue or do I sell everything b series and go for a k swap?
I've built up 2 and half engines worth of parts and my gearbox and turbo setup should fetch a pretty penny aswell. Leaving me half way to a k swap funds wise.
Only thing that lets a k swap down for me is the numbers seem alittle weak? I'm wanting hp because I track at the ring. Although I say this I'm yet to actually use anything above low boost on track because of all my issues I've been having.
I've been through 4 different combinations of engine since I've had this car and I'd like to just be able to forget about the engine and beat it's head off for a change.
All of this would have to wait until after my ring trip in under 13weeks time anyway so I may have fixed my b series by then(here's to hoping!)
The goal is sub 8minutes at the ring so if we think that a k swap can't do that then it's out anyway lol
Basically what would you do?
Stick it out
K swap
The kswap would eventually have a set of cams and itbs to hopefully see around 260-270hp.
I'm boosted and run anything from 0.4bar(260hp) upto 1bar (350hp) and I Rev up to 8.8k.
Anyway been through afew different combinations of engine and parts and still no joy as of yet.
Advice I'm after is do I stick with it hoping to eventually hit the issue or do I sell everything b series and go for a k swap?
I've built up 2 and half engines worth of parts and my gearbox and turbo setup should fetch a pretty penny aswell. Leaving me half way to a k swap funds wise.
Only thing that lets a k swap down for me is the numbers seem alittle weak? I'm wanting hp because I track at the ring. Although I say this I'm yet to actually use anything above low boost on track because of all my issues I've been having.
I've been through 4 different combinations of engine since I've had this car and I'd like to just be able to forget about the engine and beat it's head off for a change.
All of this would have to wait until after my ring trip in under 13weeks time anyway so I may have fixed my b series by then(here's to hoping!)
The goal is sub 8minutes at the ring so if we think that a k swap can't do that then it's out anyway lol
Basically what would you do?
Stick it out
K swap
The kswap would eventually have a set of cams and itbs to hopefully see around 260-270hp.