Originally Posted by
TomPengelly
Just read his guide. My brain hurts now!! Lol
So i already have a set of frs rods. My choice is either
Spend £300 on new frs pistons, then find a decent blacktop engine to fit them too with the rods
Or
Spend £300 on an ST170 engine that has rods and pistons and everything else i can use already on it.
Whats best??
I take it the only difference between a normal black top and st170 are the rods, pistons and head as its vvt that i wont be using anyway?
You mean using standard st170 internals for a turbo conversion? Not heard anything about that but I think the easiest and in my eyes more reliable way would be to get the black top, in the end you'd end up with a setup that is made to be turbo charged and anything you need for it will be easy to get as there's many after market zetec turbo or focus rs parts made.