KA-T w/ out opening engine

[iliveintheboot]

Is smart to do a turbo a KA w/ out rebuilding engine?

If so how safe is it?

[anyotherone]

That is sort of a loaded question. What blows a motor is usually detonation, so as long as your fuel set up is adaquate, you have any idea what your doing, and your car is tuned properly, it's completely fine to boost on a stock motor. There are many people turboing totally stock KA's and making up to 300rwhp... you just have to be smart. No cranking the "maad tizzight b00st" up when your out racing your friends... at the track. That's when most people get stupid and blow their motors.

But first, you need to know what state your motor is in before you attempt it.

First, how many miles are on the motor? The actual number of miles is not as important as the current condition of the engine, so it would be a good idea to do some maintenence stuff like timing chain and tensioners, and maybe various pumps/belts depending on how worn or old they are.

What about your ignition system, is it in good shape? Check your plugs, wires, etc. Do you know if it's been taken care of?

Do a compression test and leakdown check to determine how healthy the motor is. If you don't know how, you could find someone local that does, or get a mechanic to do it.

Hope this helps.

[iliveintheboot]

Thanks for your input the infromation really helped.

[anyotherone]

No problem!

Just keep searching this site... I've been lurking here for a loooong time and there is a wealth of information.

I think I'm just about ready to actually begin my KA-T project!

[nissanfanatic]

136K, 2K turboed. 6psi. 180psi~all four. Saving up for a JWT ECU and plan on doing 10psi daily.

As stated before, tuning. And don't beat the s**t out of your car everyday.

[:: orion ::]

...tuning.

And don't beat the s**t out of your car everyday.

If it's tuned right, you CAN beat the sh*t out of it EVERY day and it'll last...my KA is proof of that (among others).

But the less you beat on it, the less chance of breaking it...

Me: I'd rather break it than baby it...I built it to USE the hell out of it...if it brekas, then I need to upgrade something so I can drive it how I need to drive it.

[ ...just pickin' on ya, "nissanfanatic" ]

- Brian

[S14tat]

mine was turboed 2 years ago on a stock block KA and it still has perfection compression across the board and this is my daily driver in nyc and i usually hit full boost like 4-5 times a day, and i have put almost 40K on the engine since its been boosted, and i have over 110K on my engine right now.

[nissanfanatic]

I woudln't call boosting a couple times beating hte hell out of it.

I know orion. Autocrossing would definately qualify as beating. I just dread swapping in a piston.haha Got four laying around for a mishap though. I gotta see you run sometime.