Evening everyone, so I've only owned my G for several months. I love my car, and don't see me parting ways unless absolutely necessary.

I picked up a second job over summer for the point of going FI. My car has 177K miles on it. No way I would put the strain on the engine at this age.

So, I'm at the point of buying a new engine, should I get a built engine or a used engine around 70K miles.

I'll track the car everyone once in awhile but it'll be mostly DD. Maybe doing some enthusiastic driving on my way home commute. So I guess I'm basically asking should I throw the extra cash at a built engine and turbo that or buy a used engine with low miles and turbo that?

 

Such a tough decision man, if you plan on keeping your g for sometime, personally I would save just a little more and go with a build especially if you're going to turbo it, only thing with buying a used motor is you have no idea how it was previously treated, or if it had oc issues. I'm kinda in the same position, debating on if I want to rebuild It except I don't know if I'll be going turbo, it's just so expensive. I do plan on keeping my car for a very long time. Check this site out if you are serious, I'm looking into possibly ordering soon.

http://www.importpartspro.com/st1blon.html

 

Stock VQ's don't like turbos due to the added torque, you may or may not get lucky. Best to do it right from the beginning and go with a built block. It will be expensive but will also be considerably more reliable if built correctly.

 

another alternative is a supercharger....

 

Stock block go with sc

Built block go with tt

It's that simple of a decision.