Originally Posted by
juffer
Depends what budget you have. If you have decent management then your options are open. Me and a friend have identical bottom ends that were build for a few hundred quid and work well and do what we want. Im using a ZVH 2.1 and a friends is ZT 2.1. Just find a H/g to suit your compression.
The bottom ends are basically this:
Block bored to 86mm
Vauxhall c20XE pistons
Silver top rods machined to 21mm
Pistons drilled ( to allow oil to the pin)
8mm ARP rod bolts
My ZVH got 246bhp and my friends ZT got 299bhp.
its cool u got tht all done
wats h/g mate
block ive got in my car the now has c20let pistons , its a blacktop zetec, block im building is silvertop was wanting to try n get good power from it, want to do it right, would like to buy purpose made bits for zetec turbo conversion, im getn my crank lightened n balanced want to get acralites or some other piston ready made n con rods ready done to but uprated, not sure wat make to get.