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.)

[lagos]

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.

NO, and if it did, you could no longer call it a 5sfe because of all the $$$ you had to put into it.

the other thing you have to remember is, just because that honda pull 500hp on a dyno and everything seemed ok, dosnt mean the car is still running to this day. the motor could have went a day after the article was printed.

if you are going to buy all the turbo parts, and then buy internals, and spend the money to have someone upgrade and rebuild your motor, then youll end up spending way more then you would with a tipical 3s swap. not to mention that you will always be trying to fight your stock ecu to try to tune the car right, on the 5sfe.

[Aaagogo]

yupe, well said, it has to be street worthy.

the other thing you have to remember is, just because that honda pull 500hp on a dyno and everything seemed ok, dosnt mean the car is still running to this day. the motor could have went a day after the article was printed.