UPDATE: 5.5agze 20v coming Spring 2015 by gaijin_rokurunner

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After months of waiting the engine is complete and back on the dyno for tuning tomorrow and possibly monday if they dont finish up....!!!!updates to come or another opps posting if it blows a kidney again....

7-4-2013

Engine is finally done.... for now...253bhp at 8350rpm, 160 1/2 ftlbs torque at 6700.....at 8350 still was making 145ftlbs this is WITHOUT the Hytech header. Sandy was afraid to push it any higher because of what happened last time and what it cost him to fix the engine...but once the engine is in the car we are going to check everything under load, put it on the wheel dyno and push it to 9500 or wherever the HP starts to drop...at 8350 it was still going vertical.....my goal for the build was 250hp (should be about 210-215 at the wheels) ....ive made it and now my curiosity wants to know what the top HP line is but my pocket is telling me be happy with what it got ! haha....final c/r is 14.1:1....will post dyno sheet and a video or two of the power runs when i pick everything up

7-8-2013

Lol wish i could brag about being debt free after this lol...will have the car sorted out and running in the next few weeks or so have some military stuff to take care of prior to my deployment but should have it all done by the end of the month...if no more issues arise...then i will dyno it on the chassis dyno and get u another sheet that actually goes to 9500...see the very end of the graph started to go up again before it was shut down.

7-9-2013

Its got more juice..highly conservative egt numbers....once its in the car i will take some timing away and lean the engine out, switch to VP c14 fuel and install the hytech header and it will surely make some more ponies......lastly im gathering the parts for a drysump now... Thats a bolt on 10-12 hp alone and will allow me to take the engine over 10000 if i want...all that and as u said some playing around with the cams should put me within 15-20hp away from 300h...

7-14-2013

Thanks....think thats going to be it except for a fuel change and header....dont want to spend anymore money think i proved my point lol...as far as the rims no i have 15x10 -25 front with a 5mm spacer to clear the rx7 calipers and 15x11.5 rear which im probably going to sell for some 15x10.5s. 11.5 sticks out about an inch. Yeah clearance issues all around...if u want a flush setup 8.5 0 offset in the front and 9 0 offset rear or 8.5 -6 rear will work nice w

8-25-2013

Just waiting on a header...Hytech wasted 14 weeks of waiting so I told him to keep his header....I cant deal with people that tell me a time frame and 5-6 weeks after that time frame im told a few more weeks until they get back from vacation...Soon as I get my header I can get the car rolling and finish up the rest of the suspension setting and hopefully get it on a wheel dyno to see what she makes