Boost on stock internals, looking for your toughts Options

[frosty]

Alright, I do understand that if you turbocharge anything it is wise to beef up the internals.(duh)

The reson for my post is to read your thoughts of a magazine article I read in this months HCI. The article stated that they turbocharged a b16 motor with stock internals. After pushing around 300 ponies the piston rods broke (I believe that was it, it's been a while since I read it, but I'm about 95% sure that was it) Anyways, they changed them out with stronger ones and increased the boost to 24 psi. producing a little over 500 hp. The reason they did this article was to show that with proper tuning stock internals can hold their own.

Now if this was me, I would feel more comfortable with stronger internals than stock ones, but it still makes me ponder the thought of (with proper tuning) how much boost our motors could hold with stock internals.

(please undertand that if I do add a turbo to my motor I do plan on improving the inside of the beast and not try to be smooth and run only on the stock stuff.)

[frosty]

u will be better off in terms performance gain vs money spent if u are thinking of forging the 5sfe, i would suggest doing a 3sgte swap if u want to out the money into boosting the internals.

the stock 5sfe can hold the stock boost of the ct26 with proper tunning.

at the end of the day, the 5sfe was never designed for power/performance.

do a search and you will find that many ppl advises spending that money on a swap rather than forging.
[right][snapback]346906[/snapback][/right]

I've already done my searching, and if I were to turbo the 5s-fe it wouldn't be for high hp. I now that the 5s-fe wasn't meant to produce extremes in hp.

My only question (which I guess I wasn't clear on) is could our motors produce that 500 hp like the b16 with only a good turbo setup and lots of hours tuning.

It's only a hypothetical question, not one for actual usage.

My bad for not being clear.