Gas Engine For Turbo Rebuild

[SipposBFT]

Mate of mines BA is getting a bit tired & turbo is starting to smoke a little... its done a touch over 250k kms so ive convinced him to give it a rebuild & performance tune as well. So as to save hime taking his car off the road & having no wheels to drive around in I suggested we build another donk & do the change over in a weekend. Funnily enough...Ive just seen a Gas engine on ebay for 50 bucks... Question.... dont the gas engines have bigger conrods (same as turbo's so ive been told) ? Its going to cop forged turbo pistons anyway... so can anyone tell me any reason why this wont work? Im also planning to install the bigger valve springs (typhoon items) as well...so are the heads identical otherwise? any other advise would be great.

Cheers

[MeanstreakJR]

Hey mate,

I my self am going to do same thing, I have a 05 BF Egas Engine. (straight gas) the Egas Engiens have the Same Rods as The BA/BF F6 Typhoon Donk but the compersion ratio is 11.1:1 where the turbo engine is around 9.1:1, Spool Imports are Doing Kits where u get Rod's,Pistons,pincs Rings, and even a Metal Headgasket For a decent Price. if your gonna Build an engine a package like that With a set of ARP mains and head studs one of there gurdels and billet oil Pump gears you will have your self a 600+KW bottom end. Valve springs would suggest Atomic or Even Crow Cams springs.

Dylan.

[SipposBFT]

Hey thanks Dylan... yeah thought the bottom ends were the same... not aimimg for big KW... 350rw will be heaps... gonna tune in some serious torque... so really...forgies are all im going to need....but I might ask him if hes got any plans for going above the 350rw mark...then yeah... why not go the spool package. Other than the metal gasket... do most just use the standard ford head gasket?? Thanks for your help

[MeanstreakJR]

All good mate, forgies wont do much mate, its the roads that are the big let down in these engiens, even the Typhoon Rods, they are stronger and will take abit more punishment but yeah, I would suggest a set of decent rods with stock pistons. My BA im going for 350+rwkw, it will be getting tuned soon, somne guys have had BA bottom ends Last years Some just a few weeks. depends on how it is driving, I have a friend who did 290,000Kms on 300+rwkw, with not a drama. Alot of guys use stock head gasket but if your gonna have head off putting a set of ARP head studs and metal head gasket would be a good thing to do, ARP head studs can be used more then once, stock rod bolts use them once throw them away.

Dylan.