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Old Aug 24, 2008 | 04:23 PM
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msa bore and stroker kit

i was looking through the msa website and saw this conversion kits but since they are out of stock they dont have the price.

Any Ideas how much it would cost with the machine work?

http://www.thezstore.com/page/TZS/CTGY/PEM05
Old Aug 24, 2008 | 04:41 PM
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in the end for a basic stroker kit your looking at about $5-6k to have one built right and tunning.
Old Aug 24, 2008 | 04:44 PM
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damn, ok thx i'll just keep looking for other ways to improve my car
Old Aug 24, 2008 | 06:50 PM
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lol stroker kit... denied!!!!
Old Aug 24, 2008 | 06:56 PM
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That kit has been on back order with MSA for about 3 years now... The Diesel Maxima crank shaft is no longer available from Nissan. That's the corner stone of that conversion. The only other alternative is to have a custom crank made by Scat or someone else in the biz and that makes the price WAY higher.
Old Aug 24, 2008 | 10:42 PM
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DAMN YOU NISSAN!!!!!! DAMN YOU!!!!!!!!! oh well they got bigger and better things to move onto now
Old Aug 25, 2008 | 07:47 AM
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Fear not, Rebello will still make you a 3.2L stroker for about $10k.
Old Aug 25, 2008 | 09:13 AM
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Originally Posted by lww
Fear not, Rebello will still make you a 3.2L stroker for about $10k.
Pocket change!

One thing I've always wondered, is the power gain really all that much? Do the extra .3-.4 litres make that much of a difference?
Or lets say you decide to do a turbo stroker, with boost does the little bit extra displacement make that much of a difference to warrant $10k? Could you use that money on rebuilding the engine in stock form, only with stronger internals to withstand higher boost and be just as well off?

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Old Aug 25, 2008 | 09:21 AM
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from what i've seen as far as import engines go a stroker motor makes more torque and spools a turbo faster but the stock bore motors seem to have a higher HP potential. go figure. also when making a 3.1 stroker there such an over bore i wouldnt boost.
Old Aug 25, 2008 | 11:11 AM
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I've read about them before. The bottom line is from my research they are not worth the cost.
Its for those that love the L-series and either want a really big NA engine or just have way more money to spend than they know what to do with.

Otherwise, your $$$ is better spent on boosting an L28et
Old Aug 25, 2008 | 04:54 PM
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spent on boosting an L28ET.... isnt that like redundant, cause boosting refers to adding a turbo system (as in an non turbo motor) but the L28ET is already boosted lol. building it maybe?
Old Aug 25, 2008 | 05:44 PM
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Car boosting. I just boosted that car over there!
Besides adding more boost to a motor, wouldn't that be boosting it? Or at least boosting the power?
Old Aug 25, 2008 | 08:54 PM
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As someone who's got both, I agree, it's not worth the cost. You're better off spending more money on forged pistons and connecting rods so you can run more boost.

Rebello's high compression stroker motors can make 280 crank hp or about 240 rwhp or about $41.6/whp.

For that money, you could probably put together a nice ~350 rwhp turbo motor.
Old Aug 27, 2008 | 02:23 PM
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For that kind of money you get a trashed WS6 Trans am and twin turbo that into your Z. HANG ON BITCHES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Old Aug 27, 2008 | 09:29 PM
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also when doing a stroker you bore out the cylinder walls. so your walls are thinner which can lead to problems when applying alot of boost..
Old Aug 27, 2008 | 09:34 PM
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Originally Posted by 260zturbo
also when doing a stroker you bore out the cylinder walls. so your walls are thinner which can lead to problems when applying alot of boost..
i so totally said that lol...
Old Aug 27, 2008 | 11:35 PM
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Originally Posted by lww
As someone who's got both, I agree, it's not worth the cost. You're better off spending more money on forged pistons and connecting rods so you can run more boost.

Rebello's high compression stroker motors can make 280 crank hp or about 240 rwhp or about $41.6/whp.

For that money, you could probably put together a nice ~350 rwhp turbo motor.
Can't you fairly cheaply put together an L28ET that will easily be making 300 crank hp, and still have a bunch of that money left?
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