Keith,
Nitrous is great for making gobs of power, but it's a meat eater. Exotic
stuff looks neat, but will it give you enough extra bang for the buck to
justify the additional cost? From what I'm hearing fuel engines seem to
be a little easier to satisfy than unblown gas jobs so you might want to
keep it simple. You could use the 2.8 crank, an iron block, a decent
pair of iron heads, maybe some steel four bolt main caps and add good
rods and pistons. Use some of those old parts stashed in the garage -
the whole thing could be built for a few thousand dollars. Keep the revs
down to 8500 or so and feed it a ton of gas. Best of all, when she
blows, you say bye, bye.
Skyhawk will get an "E" transplant for next season. Don't know what kind
of an engine yet, but if all goes well, it'll be an odd ball. You know,
limited power potential, no after market parts, and found only in some
obscure Chinese province.
Keep the "E" ideas coming.
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