Prepare motor - install turbo later?

[schleudertrauma]

Hi all,

I bought a used VTI Sedan with a B16A2 with a blown head gasked and drinking to much oil to install it in my EJ2. As I have to work the motor over anyway I'm planing to prepare it for a turbo setup. Unfortunatelly I don't have the money to buy all the stuff at once therefore I want to prepare the motor with stronger internals at first and then buy the turbo kit later.

I'm wondering - as most turbo internals decrease the motor's compression ratio - weahter the car can be driven with turbo internals but a missing turbo kit. I don't want the motor to run like crap as it needs the forced induction. Are there aftermarket parts that I can use for a turbo- and a non-turbo-setup? How do I decrease the compression for the turbo then? Stronger head gasket? Any suggestions so far? What would you do in this case?

I dont want to replace anything a second time when installing the turbo after I have already worked everything over.

So please help me. :-)

Thanks
Daniel

 

[umair]

Hi all,

I bought a used VTI Sedan with a B16A2 with a blown head gasked and drinking to much oil to install it in my EJ2. As I have to work the motor over anyway I'm planing to prepare it for a turbo setup. Unfortunatelly I don't have the money to buy all the stuff at once therefore I want to prepare the motor with stronger internals at first and then buy the turbo kit later.

I'm wondering - as most turbo internals decrease the motor's compression ratio - weahter the car can be driven with turbo internals but a missing turbo kit. I don't want the motor to run like crap as it needs the forced induction. Are there aftermarket parts that I can use for a turbo- and a non-turbo-setup? How do I decrease the compression for the turbo then? Stronger head gasket? Any suggestions so far? What would you do in this case?

I dont want to replace anything a second time when installing the turbo after I have already worked everything over.

So please help me. :-)

Thanks
Daniel

is their anything wrong with the motor besides the head gasket? i would just build the head because that is the weakest part of the motor(i think). you can drive the car with turbo internals without a turbo (i dont know about turbo cams) but it will make it alot slower.
you dont really have to decrease the compression in oder to turbo unless you want to make alot of power(over 300WHP). to lower the compression you can get low compression pistions or you can get a low compression head gasket.

if money is not an issue i would build the block too.

but bofore you do anything you should do alot of research.

 

[schleudertrauma]

Hi,

I have to replace the piston rings anyway because that's the reason for the motor drinking so much oil. What you say is what I thought about. Is there a way to prepare the motor for later use of a turbo. If I don't need do decrease the compression with pistons I could use some which would not make my car slower. But I heard that I would generate problems with the turbo if I did not.

Any advice?

 

[umair]

if you need to replace the pistons just get low compression pistons.