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EODMonkey · 11-26-2009, 07:40 PM

so my 02 camaro with its sts turbo kit just too a crap, sounds like a rod bearing and by the look of the excessive blow by a piston ring or two.
since the whole thing has to get rebuilt i'm looking at either eagle or scat forged 383 stroker. i'm thinking since i'm only going to do about 5psi boost i'm gonna lower my compression to 10-1 with dished pistons and either 65 or 67cc heads from patriot performance. i was thinking 9.5 but i'm not running alot of boost and dont want to loose low end performance. i'm also thinking of keeping the stock cam for tuning ease. since it was one heck of a process getting it dialed in originally and i'm sure that caused some problems, which is probably why i'm at where i am now. anyone here ever put in an sts kit or messed with a turbo 383 before? i'm leaving for iraq in feb so the work will probably get done while i'm away. i'm def pissed this happened about 2 weeks ago and i almost had all the bugs worked out of the install.

11-26-2009, 07:40 PM	#1
EODMonkey Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: freehold nj Posts: 171 iTrader: (0)	rebuild advice and comments so my 02 camaro with its sts turbo kit just too a crap, sounds like a rod bearing and by the look of the excessive blow by a piston ring or two. since the whole thing has to get rebuilt i'm looking at either eagle or scat forged 383 stroker. i'm thinking since i'm only going to do about 5psi boost i'm gonna lower my compression to 10-1 with dished pistons and either 65 or 67cc heads from patriot performance. i was thinking 9.5 but i'm not running alot of boost and dont want to loose low end performance. i'm also thinking of keeping the stock cam for tuning ease. since it was one heck of a process getting it dialed in originally and i'm sure that caused some problems, which is probably why i'm at where i am now. anyone here ever put in an sts kit or messed with a turbo 383 before? i'm leaving for iraq in feb so the work will probably get done while i'm away. i'm def pissed this happened about 2 weeks ago and i almost had all the bugs worked out of the install.