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]

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.

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This is true. If I owned the magazine and printed this article and then the motor blew up after, I would be kinda ashamed. I don't think I would feel safe if it was used in daily driving.

our Celica engines (7A-FE and 5S-FE) were not blessed like those other econo-engines.
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Sad but yet true I guess...

Dont forget the b16 is a Racing Motor, the 5sfe is an economy motor, and no it will not hold 500 hp, probilbly not even after massive internal and block work, wile the b16 is pretty well known for holdling that power and still running. and yeah the cost of building up a 5sfe to a race worth hp is higher then the cost of swaping a 3sgte.
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Yeah, this type of thing sucks for all 5s-fe/7a-fe owners. It would be nice if our internals were up to that kind of quality though.

I only wished that these magazines would show more on toyotas than what they do and the engines.