Noshoes ran an 11.89 on a fully built engine from the crank to the valve springs, with a ct20b on c16 race gas, 23psi of boost, drag slicks, and with near perfect driving.

Once I get an intercooler and water injection I will shoot to duplicate that. In the end I will have spent a lot less, AND I would not have to set one foot on the dyno. Do you know how much time noshoes spent on the dyno to make 320rwhp on that setup? BTW that engine didn't last either.

I am pretty sure j&h put a better head gasket on his engine, that is what I mean by unopened. Nothing done to the internals of the engine. The headgasket is one of the many weak links of the gen 2. Why waste the money building up the head and replacing the head gasket and tuning the ecu when you can get an engine from the factory with all these things in place?

To call someone dumb for doing a Gen 3 swap over a Gen 2 is wrong.