Take that eingine to a machine shop and have the eingine cylinders bored out. and get oversized pistons and get bigger headers and cold air intake and rework the exhaust system and increase the piping to 2" instead of the stock 1.5" this might give you 65 more horse power. this will run you less than 2,000. On second thought.........put a turbo in it less than 500.00
posted by blane.
yea right that will at most get you 15whp. Do a 4age swap. or a 4agze swap. the 4agze is rated at 170 hp from a levin gt-z and they do quite good with bolt on's. both engine swap are stright forward and will bolt right in. Or get a silvertop 20v 4age. rated at 160ps but tested by peps at 140ish ps. all these swap are stright forward but the only trouble you might run into is the electricals. But there are alot of web pages that have the info on it such as club4ag.com or
http://soniccreation.com/jdm4agzewiring.htm. the silvertops can be found for 700 dollars just the motor, a front clip could run to 1500 dollars same with the 4agze front clip. the cheapest thing you could do is get a 4age redtop none tvis for around 500-700 dollars. scrap the ecu get a 4age ecu why? 130hp premuim gas needed 10.4:1 comp and 7800rpm redline(but could rev to 8000 rpm and not even be fazed). the wiring is pretty stright foward. you could run the same tranny but then what would be the use. get the c51 tranny as it is a short ratio tranny. the gze comes with the E50 tranny with is heavyer than a c51 but might come with LSD. Al these swap if done by yourself will not cost you much only the engine cost. good luck
