Hey hows it going. i own a calais turbo which as far as i know is completley unmodified. Just wondering how much would it cost me to reco the engine or if i was to mod the engine should i not waste my money recoing and just mod the bits i want. any theories would be great.

How many k's on the engine? A stock engine in good condition will cope fairly well with a few bolt on's, eg. if you just want mild power with a T3 highflow, 3" exhaust, small cooler, etc. then it will be fine. On the other hand if you're going to run heaps of boost through a massive turbo and run an 11 second pass then I would say rebuild. But if you don't have huge plans for it in the near future, then don't rebuild it just for the sake of rebuilding it.

basically i dont want run 11sec passes im looking at just a nice streeter i wanna keep up with ur hsv, fpv's and a few of those wankers that think there top **** in their gtr mock-ups. looking @ about 200rwkw.

cooler , exhaust, boost controller, 14psi

yeh thats sick i like that smash all dem tossa's who spend 60 grand on a car n think they own the street thats what i wanted to do to start wit but my bottom end didnt like that idea too much so im gettin a rebuild n going to the track to see how she goes good luck with smashen those fords though man...and get a good tune up done after the mods

get a hi-flo,cooler,and all that. if it blow's up then rebuild it.

maybe a mild rebuild when the time comes. do you mods, eg cooler, turbo but of boost zorst etc. Bresciani charge around 3.5k for a full rebuild with acl cast pistons hat would be good enough for your application Greg

but not worth it if he doesnt need it. maybe a chassis dyno would answer his question if it needs rebuild, it would abviously give bad peak and not much low end if it needs rebuild. but then again it might just need a new cat converter, a bad old cat would make any car look like it's missing sum compression, it'll lag down the bottom