Oh no I won't be discouraged by any means, the car had been parked for roughly 10 years due to family life, I've owned the car for 19 years, started out with a carbed 2.3 turbo car... blew that engine up when I was 16, parked it because I was broke, found an 85 svo with no title for $250 and swapped that into the car with megasquirt and 20 lbs of boost and blew that engine racing a BMW out in mexico, engine still ran but smoked like a freight train. Pulled it apart and found cast pistons that were 30 over and #2 piston cracked, rebuilt it with some nos trw forged flat tops and started running 20 psi out of a holset hx35, home ported head, you know all the free mods.
That was a fun setup, would outrun fox mustangs with 5.0 and simple bolt ons with ease but got bored and pulled everything and sold the parts....the car sat untill Oct 2020 when I decided to drop money into it, has tubular k member now, hydroboost, 4.6 2v and and a tr3650.
I know a na 2v is hard to make good street friendly power with but forged induction is my goal, but not on this motor. I wanna drive it for a couple of years the way it is and build one of the 2v engines I have laying around to make 600 whp.
When I was in highschool I was stupid and gutted all the ac and heater stuff, has no carpet due to leaky sunroof and door seals, has no headliner again from leaky sunroof so the car is light. How light? I'll find out after my dyno tune as I'll run it on a scale.
This car was my daily driver in highschool when I needed a car if it wasn't raining I rode my motorcycle. But the value I put on this car can't be replaced, my son rode in the car with a 2.3 when he was a baby in a car seat, he is now 13, my 9 year old daughter has never riden in it untill now just moving it around the driveway (if you consider that a ride), all in all as long as I can beat on it for a while and not melt a piston in the process I will be happy, the body will get paint and body work before it gets a built up engine.
This thread was just made to get an idea of what it could possibly put down but seems that anywhere from 250 to 270 whp is a decent number.
Thanks all of yall for your input. It's all appreciated and if it don't blow up on the dyno I will deffenetly post the graph of the numbers.
The valve train is good to 7500 rpm, doubt the cams will still be making power at this rpm but even if it quits making power at 6k it'll be good to know it'll handle 7500 in case I miss a shift or don't pay attention when grabbing gears.
Megasquirt won't do a spark cut with edis due to edis not needing a computer to run so it'll technically still create spark but only 10 degrees so no 2 step or launch control for me untill I go to coil on plug setup.