Upgrade Harmonic balanced and oil pump
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Upgrade Harmonic balanced and oil pump
I have 1.6 turbo miata engine out of the car an on the stand. Changing seals, cleaning stuff up, and swapping parts. Now you can read an research for days and watch YouTube vids on builds but I’m just curious on what the Miata turbo community thinks.. I have a question about the harmonic balancer and oil pump.
Is it worth upgrading if your boosting for about 250 HP on stock block daily driver? They go for about $800-900 together from Fab9Tuning. Checking based on your experiences if it’s worth the price tag, if not that money can go into other parts. Again not building a track cat. Just a fun 250lb daily drive or weekend driver.
Just curious bout vibrations and cracking ?
Is it worth upgrading if your boosting for about 250 HP on stock block daily driver? They go for about $800-900 together from Fab9Tuning. Checking based on your experiences if it’s worth the price tag, if not that money can go into other parts. Again not building a track cat. Just a fun 250lb daily drive or weekend driver.
Just curious bout vibrations and cracking ?
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I went stock damper stock pump on my super budget rods only street car build. If I wanted to be super safe I would have added a billet pump with stock damper.
If you aren't even putting rods in then run the stock stuff and keep the rev limit sane.
But really you want rods.
If you aren't even putting rods in then run the stock stuff and keep the rev limit sane.
But really you want rods.
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Like do I really need upgrade pump and balancer or do o really need rods, just rods.
trying get everyone’s feed back who’s had experience with this on their setups.
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For the price of either a set of rods and bearings or a boundary pump you can pick up a junkyard 1.8. You will hopefully get a variable TPS and will certainly get much better breathing heads and intake and will not have to work as hard to get to your 250 goal. And you will end up with a turbo exhaust manifold that will be worth more if you ever decide to sell it.
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For the price of either a set of rods and bearings or a boundary pump you can pick up a junkyard 1.8. You will hopefully get a variable TPS and will certainly get much better breathing heads and intake and will not have to work as hard to get to your 250 goal. And you will end up with a turbo exhaust manifold that will be worth more if you ever decide to sell it.
This. I have done the 1.6 turbo route and going to a 1.8 early will be huge! If I could do it all over I would have done that. And if i was even smarter i would have left the 1.6 alone and just k swapped for 250hp non turbo
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Do not rebuild your 1.6L, that is a bad idea for bad people who do bad things
Run it as-is until it blows up
Buy and build a 1.8L setup on the side. For a reliable 250whp you need rods, bearings, head/main studs, and a VVT oil pump (high flow). When 1.6L blows up, or when you finish 1.8L setup, swap and enjoy
Run it as-is until it blows up
Buy and build a 1.8L setup on the side. For a reliable 250whp you need rods, bearings, head/main studs, and a VVT oil pump (high flow). When 1.6L blows up, or when you finish 1.8L setup, swap and enjoy
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