Originally Posted by
Z28ricer
While I understand you questioning them stating that they received bad materials, to completely post that they are flat out lying, is a bit silly, and naive, to doubt that they could have received some bad product, from the same supplier they always go through, doesnt make sense, its happened in the past, with plenty of company's, sometimes stuff gets through, its impossible for them to test every single piece of tube that comes through, eventually you will run across this if you stay in the custom parts fabrication arena, when this happens you wont be too happy when people are questioning your integrity based on their own guess.
As far as the flow numbers, thats only a small fraction of my reasoning for my engine choice, i've been doing swaps since 2000, you definetly wont find me jumping into doing a swap because its "different" or "cool" or any other trivial reasoning, the fact is my swap will turn out better than almost every SR swap around here even though my engine never even came in the chassis its now in, my harness wont have any spliced connections, the alternator puts out more than enough power for the car, and extra add ons, the transmission is more than capable of handling the power I intend to put down without trouble, clutch is bigger for increased capability there, I wont be worrying about my exhaust burning up my brake fluid, there are just a few of the main reasons I chose the engine i'm using, but that definetly doesnt cover all of them. Oh and the ability to get parts to replace things locally without any silly begging for someone to have a used one "asap" or trying to guess which parts from what other USDM cars fit.
Oh to add to that part, you used the evo turbo on your car because you had it laying around, making it a "price" issue, i'll have about the same in my drivetrain as a properly done SR swap, certainly between that and the other long list of benefits you can see the choice isnt exactly a hard one to make.
As far as quoting you on flow numbers lying, you are still trying to act like the 1UZ is a better engine, based on B18hondaboys incorrect statement about the heads on them flowing something amazing, when in fact they arent even on par with my "truck" heads.
Your totally right they could have received bad materials.
The way I was trying to say is....
What if SPL got in contact with another metal supermarket and they said you buy from us we will sell you .50 cents cheaper per foot compared to the ppl they are getting it from. So SPL is like ok we will buy the cheaper stuff but in re-turn they got less quality matel. But there idea back fired on them.
And I never said "Flat out they are lying"
Ok your swap might be better then most sr swap's. But dont forget alot of ppl who do sr's half-ass them and dont care. Iv seen ls1 240 and ls1 rx7 swap done that look like ASS too. Just cause you do it right does not mean they are all done right.
Your choice is your own ppl just dont do it cause its gay. Its funny you talk about you have more money in your drivetrain then a built sr. My version of a properly built sr would prob be 15k just in the engine. So no your drivetrain will not be more money. Why would you even upgrade it if the clutch and tranny are more then perfect for what you want be smart and put the money into some other part of the car. Dont waste your money to replace something thats perfect.