Whats up guys, its been years since I last posted here. I have an 09 and decided to build my car finally. I bought almost everything besides a bigger turbo, my stock one is still good. Just had a few questions if you guys can help me out.

First, im replacing the valve springs, do I need to get the kent moore replacement tool if im taking apart the motor? Or can I use another type like an autozone one?
Second, do i need an exh cam? I ended up getting the int bigger fuel lobe to pair with the #94 supertechs.
Third, im going e85 and have everything to support hopefully, bigger injectors and cam. Will I be okay running that setup.

Mods bought
intake cam bigger fuel lobe
#94 supertech valve springs
Wiseco Pistons
ZZP rods
Arp head studs
timing set w/waterpump
ZZP raidator hoses
Opel Injectors
ZZP belt
I dont know if im missing anything else but if I remember Ill post.
also going to get the head, valves, engine cleaned up at a machine shop.

 

If you have the engine or head out of the car the one from autozone should work for you to what I've read here.

 

Yeah I think Im gonna go that route since I dont want to buy the tool and only use it once. Thanks!

 

Its a bit more work but yeah would save you a few bucks. I got the tool a few months ago pretty cheap and will eventually use it and probably sell it not sure might just keep it

 

I talked to Matt from ZZP (the LNF tuner) about running E-85 or E-47 with a stock k04 and my ko4r. this is what i got from him.

 

Ok cool, good thing I have the intake cam with larger fuel lobe and the opel injectors. Thanks

 

If your building, why stick with the stock turbo? The ZFR's well is known to get well over 400whp on 93 pump, and the Z54 and Z57 on 93 will certainly out perform the stock K04... The K04 on E-85 won't even touch them from my understanding. I've also seen that you don't need E-85 to push the K04 to its limit, E-47 will do that and you 'll keep half way decent gass milage that way.

 

I agree, if youre building the motor why not upgrade the turbo?

 

I do want to go bigger turbo but maybe next year, the funds kind of have a hold on that but trust me I did think about the Z57 but they sold out, dont want anything bigger since i daily my car and it has 178k. Tryna be on the safe side at the same time.. I dont know what I want sometimes lol

 

Well if you're building the engine I don't see what could go wrong tbh lol. Just make sure you've done your timing chain all that while you are doing all that and have a reliable engine to support a bigger turbo

 

For sure, I have all the timing components too, everything going in new. Guess it more of the funds than anything for going bigger turbo

 

get your piston to wall clearance measured and verify your ring gap is appropriate for whatever boost you want to eventually run.

Also get the APR timing bolts from CED

 

Valve spring tools I used to swap springs in the LE5 head, that is indeed copper pipe (non magnetic). I had to fine tune the length of the copper tool and used a couple washers too, the setup was hitting the valve cover-machined surface.

 

Plastigage or measure your main and rod bearing clearances. When I built my LE5 2.4 engine, I had to go through 2 sets of main bearings (first set was tighter than second set wth), this is after polishing 0.0008" off the crank mains. It was a 2006 crankshaft going into a 2015 block, but the bearing part numbers are all the same.

 

Good looking, I did get the arp head studs but I did not know about the ring gap. I research on that thanks .

 

Ok I see what you did, My friend and I just pulled the motor out yesterday and set it up on the engine stand, so ill make sure to use a tool/set up like that.

 

For sure not forgetting that, just need to buy some at Autozone. Thanks for the info.

 

One of the solution for a DD with turbo is have a dual boost setup? S256 @17 and 25psi. 99% at the lower boost plenty power. Stock motor.

 

would that be 2 different maps then?

 

Does anyone know wat the part number it is for the lnf girdle bolts? I want to be safe and change them out as well but i cant find them or they are listed differently

 

11571239 is for the 20 bigger ones
11588733 is for the 10 smaller ones

 

Thanks dude, just ordered them, did they raise the price up or what, i pad 200 w shipping for all of them on gmpartsguy.com, **** was expensive.

 

I could have got them for you for cheaper and you could have picked them up from me....

Where in Socal are you anyways?

 

Damn really?? Maybe i can return them, how much can you get them for?. I live in Pomona

 

I am going to say it would be around $180 with tax. Not much cheaper but still better than nothing!

I am out in San Bernardino. Probably 40 min from you.