no way... i dont belive

[KA24JEF]

so i was just reading on another forum... iknow i know ...anyway thir were talking about ka24de big whoop i know but some one said something that i couldent belive, now as far as iv even k own the stock internels in a ka were just watever week crap for the most part but , this person stated that the crank and rods were in fact forged????? now agin ivnever herd of this but to be a good sport i whent looking and have been able to find nothing , now im sure you guys are just going to tell me to look harder but i sware i have and ill admit im not really good with useng the "search" on this web site but it whold be awsome if some one could tell it to me stright, cuz this could really change a lot of thinking i have a about a platform iv allways kinda had a soft spot for, so agin any help is awsome and agin srry for the fail as far as the "search" goes lol

[compactfean]

crank is forged, rods are def. not! the main problem that ka's have is bearings and rods. my machine shop is the one that told me that the crank is forged.... and none of them could give a s*** if its nissan, honda chevy, so they are completely unbiased. the said the forged cranks are a pain to work on, and that forged cranks are actually not all that uncommon. i actually changed to the sr after blowing up two diff ka's. after all the money i dumped into my sr, i should have just built the ka.

[KA24JEF]

so in other words i whold still need to get forged everything in order to get a strong bottom end like i was allways led to belive and do they make a better bearing? to stop that from beeing such a pain?

[Justinians_2:40]

I don't know whether the rods are forged, but I know they must be pretty damn strong. I knew a guy in Gainesville that made around 500hp on stock KA internals, he just kept blowing ring lands. Obviously, it wouldn't be strong enough to hold that much power daily, but they must be pretty strong to even do it once. I think he did end up bending a rod, but it was more likely due to pre-ignition than the amount of power he made.

[KA24JEF]

well all this i good to know , and agin if any one has a link to a spec. sheet that could tell me that whold be awsome , lol thanks for the info guys

[nismoracingsx]

i used to live in gville, i remember there was some guy in a hatch running large amounts of boost waiting for his ka to pop :p so he could swap the sr20 in or something, guy was licking corvettes up and down 75 every morning outside sfcc ^_^

[KA24JEF]

thats allways really funny to know your car cost less then his wheels lol then you beat him lol fun.

[AZhitman]

That was painful to read.

Here's the deal: First off, we've been here (240sx.org) since 1997, and actually started a few years before that. So, you'll be hard-pressed to find more / better info on the KA anywhere else.

Second: KA rods aren't forged. If you're building a KA for boost, forged pistons and rods are a must.

Third: There's TONS of high-hp KA-T's running around. The SR guys used to have an advantage - not anymore.

Stick around, do a lot of reading in our KA-T forum... here's my build (the engine build is the part you want to read: http://www.nicoclub.com/archives/nico-p ... art-7.html )

[KA24JEF]

That was painful to read.

Here's the deal: First off, we've been here (240sx.org) since 1997, and actually started a few years before that. So, you'll be hard-pressed to find more / better info on the KA anywhere else.

Second: KA rods aren't forged. If you're building a KA for boost, forged pistons and rods are a must.

Third: There's TONS of high-hp KA-T's running around. The SR guys used to have an advantage - not anymore.

Stick around, do a lot of reading in our KA-T forum... here's my build (the engine build is the part you want to read: http://www.nicoclub.com/archives/nico-p ... art-7.html )

agin thanx i might just be stupid but i cant seem to use the search bar on this site with much luck lol