Hey guys, this is my first time venturing into this forum and I've been reading a bit around here. This has probably been brought up before.. I doubt the swap is difficult, but I'm curious if it's recommended.
The motor in my '91 isn't doing so hot, and I was going to replace it with another in the spring. I can get a 5L motor, complete with probably fairly high mileage 160k km's or so for around 500 CDN. But from the same place I can probably get a decent 2.3 turbo as well.
The car's being built up for road racing, I'm still in the process of buying all my suspension parts and I'm redoing the brakes over the winter. Any opinions on this project? It seems that if I can make as much or more power than a stock 5L (since I wasn't going to do too much work to the 5.0) and have a lot less weight in the front, that would be ideal for road racing.
The motor in my '91 isn't doing so hot, and I was going to replace it with another in the spring. I can get a 5L motor, complete with probably fairly high mileage 160k km's or so for around 500 CDN. But from the same place I can probably get a decent 2.3 turbo as well.
The car's being built up for road racing, I'm still in the process of buying all my suspension parts and I'm redoing the brakes over the winter. Any opinions on this project? It seems that if I can make as much or more power than a stock 5L (since I wasn't going to do too much work to the 5.0) and have a lot less weight in the front, that would be ideal for road racing.