Is it best to stay stock cubes for turboing?

I heard that boring weakens the block(with the turbo), and it can hurt the motor, is this true?
Thanks

 

well when you bore a motor you are making it weaker because you are removing part of it. and as far as it hurting your engine, well as long as you dont get carried away with the bore and your PSI is suitable to your C/R.

 

or stroke it so you arent losing any sidewall

 

What kind of horsepower numbers are you looking for? If it's somewhere around 500-600hp, I would just stick with your stock bore. You should be able to spool a nice sized turbo pretty well!

 

Yeah, Somewhere around 500-600 RWHP, Maybe a little more. Also, I am turbo illiterate, so can somebody maybe give me some literature on, tat would be great.

Thanks

 

I hope your not planning on running that power on a ford escort zx2. in that case......change that to front wheel horse power

 

As all would say... best way to learn the basic is read Corky Bells Maximum Boost..cover to cover, then re-read it and do the equations. It's just plain fun.

 

Hell no...lol

This is just my first car. My parents but it at a good deal. I cant get my license until febuary. But anyways, is that maximum boost book really good?

 

If your planning on rebuilding the bottom end, you can bump the compression ratio up a tad bit. Meaning use pistons with a 9:1 or 9:5:1 compression. That will net you faster spool up and more efficient combustion, than going with an 8:5:1. What this does is, enable you to run lower boost, but have the same results. Example: 18psi on an 8:5:1 compression motor, would approximately be 14-15psi on an 9:5:1 cmpression.

 

Im planning a stock cube for my build up, and looking for 700-750 rwhp.
Thats all the seacrets im giving out.
LoL