BuickNewBee
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- Oct 12, 2002
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ENGINE QUESTIONS
Thanks to all those that tried to help me yesterday ( my first day of GN ownership when I found out my new cars TE 44 was toast. We decided to look at the rest of the engine since this worried all of us when it happend and didnt want to have anything else go wrong. We pulled the intake and oil pan to get a closer look at what I bought and everything looks like it was done well.
In my new GN There is a fresh engine with very low run time. Cast Pistons (Silovite?), WE DONT REALY LIKE CAST PISTONS!! what do you guys think? ARP 2000 series rod bolts, The cam has a green Stripe on it( does anyone know what cam it might be from there own experience as the engine is still in the car), stock heads with new springs, keepers ect, stock rockers.
The crank has these numbers cast into it.
877
Is it a turbo crank?
We are not planning on serious track duty here . Just want to go every once and a while and go low 12's as that is a fast as we can go with a roll bar.
The car has a TE 44 ( we are buying a new one or fixing the one that is toast) PTE front mount, 50# injectors, poston headers,THDP, will be buying an new exhaust system ( what do you guys recommend we like quite cars) lubrant chip, dual bosch pumps, art carr 16930 9" converter, air bags, ATR rear sway bar.
Do you think the cast pistons will be ok? I know the stock ones are cast and I see you guys going 11's on them all the time so I think we can just let them be since the rest of the work looks so nice.
Please guys we need all of the guys on this boards help. We are new to this whole TR thing and want to be part of this group really bad so please evryone come and put in your 2 cents worth.
Oh how much do you think it will cost to have the TE 44 redone. the shaft is bent and the compresor wheel is toast. Any good guys that wont kill me? After all I just bought and shipped the car to me. OUCH!!
Once again we love this place.
Norm
Thanks to all those that tried to help me yesterday ( my first day of GN ownership when I found out my new cars TE 44 was toast. We decided to look at the rest of the engine since this worried all of us when it happend and didnt want to have anything else go wrong. We pulled the intake and oil pan to get a closer look at what I bought and everything looks like it was done well.
In my new GN There is a fresh engine with very low run time. Cast Pistons (Silovite?), WE DONT REALY LIKE CAST PISTONS!! what do you guys think? ARP 2000 series rod bolts, The cam has a green Stripe on it( does anyone know what cam it might be from there own experience as the engine is still in the car), stock heads with new springs, keepers ect, stock rockers.
The crank has these numbers cast into it.
877
Is it a turbo crank?
We are not planning on serious track duty here . Just want to go every once and a while and go low 12's as that is a fast as we can go with a roll bar.
The car has a TE 44 ( we are buying a new one or fixing the one that is toast) PTE front mount, 50# injectors, poston headers,THDP, will be buying an new exhaust system ( what do you guys recommend we like quite cars) lubrant chip, dual bosch pumps, art carr 16930 9" converter, air bags, ATR rear sway bar.
Do you think the cast pistons will be ok? I know the stock ones are cast and I see you guys going 11's on them all the time so I think we can just let them be since the rest of the work looks so nice.
Please guys we need all of the guys on this boards help. We are new to this whole TR thing and want to be part of this group really bad so please evryone come and put in your 2 cents worth.
Oh how much do you think it will cost to have the TE 44 redone. the shaft is bent and the compresor wheel is toast. Any good guys that wont kill me? After all I just bought and shipped the car to me. OUCH!!
Once again we love this place.
Norm
HTH
