Originally Posted by
mewantkouki
Throw that single cam in the garbage unless you plan on rebuilding it and putting a turbo on it. I can't believe someone actually recommended putting sohc pistons in a dual cam. That's probably the most retarded thing I've read in a long time and definitely not cost effective by any means. Buy an SR or turbo a dual cam ka. This entire thread sounds like a giant pipe dream to me anyway.
why throw it away? someone sold one on here for 300 bucks just a few weeks ago. SOHC engines aren't the 50 dollar piles of scrap they used to be.
Why not put sohc pistons in the dohc? not like it hasn't been done a million times before. And it is the cheapest way to up the compression. you could even get them new with most rebuild kits if you didn't want to try and source used ones.
As far as cost, how are you going to do an SR swap, or even boost a dual cam, or hell, even boost the sohc he's got, for under 1,000 bucks.
We weren't looking at building a bullet proof engine, or even a high powered one. Just something with a bit more nuts to get beat on when drifting. Even with the SR swap, if you get hooked up on an amazing deal and get it in the car for about a grand, its just going to end up blown up anyway. Who knows how many miles were on it before your buddy got it, plus the 20k plus miles of rageage your buddy put on it himself. I'd be a little more upset with blowing up an SR then I would be blowing up a junkyard build KA, especially considering you are looking at pretty much the same power to the wheels either way. give or take a handful.