Thread: 4E-FTE swap
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Old 05-18-2009, 04:32 AM   #26 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by mhamrick View Post
Find you a 7A block and start working on it. Once you get time and you have the block ready pull your motor, swap on your current head, and then reinstall. If you are worried abount pinging (which you should) then I would go with some stock 9.4:1 4AGE pistons. If you can I would also suggest having the rods strength treated and using ARP rod bolts. This way you can feel safe about revving to 7500 and also making a couple extra HP with it. A couple of tasteful bolt-ons will get you some decent numbers and good daily driving machine which seems to be important.
I was thinking along the same lines, if i see a 7A block i will get it for sure (assuming i have the money at the time i see it) and i was thinking that it would be a good idea to balance the crank right out, and the rods, and then get new tougher valve springs for the 4AGE head and then rev it to 8 grand?

What is strength treating anyways? Is that just something you do to the stock rods?

Right now i'm happy to wait for a 7A to pop up, cause i don't feel like going to the junkyard for one, i'm sick of dealing with my local imports junkyard for at least the next month or two.
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