My 04 LS Sport has 87,000mis on it by the time I get the kit it will probably have 90,000mis on it. Is this too many miles on the motor to run upwards of 8-10lbs of boost on Hahn stage 2 kit, of coarse w/a proper tune.
It beats a Honda!
no it should be fine.as long as your car isnt running like @!#$(burning oil/upper motor ticking and stupid @!#$ like that you shall be fine sir..PLUS ITS AN ECOTEC
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04 Cavalier Turbo r.i.p my baby
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That's what I was thinking I won't be driving it everyday anymore after Fri. so the pile on of miles will greatly decrease. As soon as I get the kit I'm gonna start building a spare motor so I thought it should be fine.
It beats a Honda!
ohh well then youll be golden ..no worries!!
Built&Boosted moar
04 Cavalier Turbo r.i.p my baby
2nd place 2009 GM tuner bash qwick 8--holla
With that many miles I would take the time and rebuild the motor. I hate turboing cars over 50K-75K without a rebuild because no matter what you say now you'll never stay at 8PSI after the power bug bites you. Older, weaker parts give out before newer, stronger parts.
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10K PB: 54:26
Stikman29 wrote:That's what I was thinking I won't be driving it everyday anymore after Fri. so the pile on of miles will greatly decrease. As soon as I get the kit I'm gonna start building a spare motor so I thought it should be fine.
hes rebuilding a spare motor
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04 Cavalier Turbo r.i.p my baby
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Matt Gorman wrote:Stikman29 wrote:That's what I was thinking I won't be driving it everyday anymore after Fri. so the pile on of miles will greatly decrease. As soon as I get the kit I'm gonna start building a spare motor so I thought it should be fine.
hes rebuilding a spare motor
Yeah but he wants to run the turbo on the motor in the car until the new ones done. My advice is to get the kit and wait to put it on. It'll save him some work to. No point installing all the fittings and @!#$ just to do it again.
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5K PB: 24:50
10K PB: 54:26
I agree with Ryne, if you plan on building up a motor, just wait until that motor is ready. If you put the turbo kit on the current motor and end up changing it to the newly built motor, you will have to basically reinstall half of the kit again which is a good amount of time. That way, if your new motor blows for some odd reason...you still have the older one as a spare, just don't boost it harder than reccomended in the instructions.
As far as the 87k mile motor is concerned, turboing would be safe especailly with an ecotec. As my dad always says, "Turbos, no engine is complete without one!"
Street-Legal 2003 Sunfire 10.58 @ 139 MPH
well I wouldn't really care if the motor went up I just bought 2 more cars Fri. However, I do understand what you're saying about the fittings & things, so I will take all this into consideration.
It beats a Honda!
