Vee_Que;144009 wroteTo be fair, a cam and engine rebuild will set back about $1500 paying someone
Sorry - I cannot see how.
$90 in valve springs
$200 in lifters
$240 in valves
$260 in a cam
$480 in pistons
$130 in an oil pump
That's $1400 in parts so far, without shipping, and before there's been any machining.
Still to be added are a water pump, cam bearings, mains and big end bearings, VRS gasket kit, and steel timing gears (of value about $400 on their own - fortunately I have a spare genuine proper steel timing set, since IMO it's a folly to use the fibre crap).
And at the end of the day, it would still be a B20 on twin Strombergs (I've had enough grief from the SUs).
OTOH, from my hoarding adventures I already have 3 short B230 L blocks, new pistons, new main and big end bearings, a VRS gasket kit, 3 Melling M181 oil pumps, a complete 1995 L-block B230F with a 531, a T cam which I got from you, a turbo LH 2.4 ECU and turbo EZ116K, 3 90+ exhaust manifolds, suitable injectors, 3 new Hepu water pumps, new knock and CTS sensors, 2 wasted spark kits (one Buchka /CiFloMoto; one Bijlsma), and a timing belt kit, all sitting around waiting for homes. To put an FT into Larry, I'd still need engine mounts, a flywheel, a turbo-grade fuel pump, an intercooler, and a turbo, but I have basically everything else sitting in a shed / the shed, waiting to be deployed.
So considering all that, a B230FT looks to me like a better, reliable, no fuss, long-term proposition for 200 reliable, turn-key, day in / day out horsepower, which it should do without breaking a sweat. Thus a better place to put my $1500 into.
Though I've still got a few things to work out, like a way to fit a tonewheel and a sensor on the centre support bearing or gearbox flange, in order to pulse pin 34 of the ECU with a 0-12V DC square wave, with a 50% duty cycle signal, at 12 pulses per revolution... and thus avoid replacing the speedo cluster and diff.
