yeah, at any point of this build, If you don't have a solid starting point, as soon as you add any stress, your going to destroy the internals... I blew out the bottom end of my 84 stang.... I put the 2.3 L 4 banger I had under a lot of stress, And I took a turbo from a 83 GT with the turbo 2.3 and tried to run that. off 5 psi.... well I spun a bearing, and broke a rod.... IT isn't fun rebuilding an engine thats all chewed up. Because thats replacing the block and 95 % of the internals.

If your going to do any moderate mods to the engine, go thru the engine and upgrade anything that may be considered a weak link...

I would first look at your crank, your cam, and all your seals, Make sure your oil pump will be able to keep up with the extra power, Then your clutch and trans, also your cv axels... then I would worry about the pistons, the heads, and last your intake and manifold, then exhaust.

make sure your block is bullet proof b4 adding any sort of boost.

If I missed anything please add in...


O also some fuel injectors and your fuel rail....

might be able to do an all moter teg... nice decent cam, port and polished heads, bored over a little, *( not too much so you can't drive it daily tho..) exhaust, intake ect and remap, also a chip and what not....

all different ideas... sorry for such a long post..