opinions on kg engine conversion

[Mihnea Cotet]

Alan,

The KG has a knock sensor and if it's from an '86+ car
it has a watercooled turbo. Compression ratio is 8.3:1
which is pretty good! Throw a K24 in and you'll have a
very nice engine for your car!


HTH,


Mihnea
--- Alan Pritchard <apritchard at seaeye.com> wrote:
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> On my search for parts I have stumbled across a kg
> engine, loom, ecu,
> intercooler et al for a reasonable price.....
> unfortunately it is one of the
> 2144cc motors, I guess it is an oil cooled turbo,
> only cis with no closed
> loop, and I don't know what the deal is with knock
> sensors...
>  Therefore is it a good starting point?
> I thought about swapping the head for my ng head,
> and swap out the cis for
> my stock cis3. I think the cr on the kg is 8.8 which
> suits me because I
> cannot see me going beyond the limits of cis(3)
> anytime soon where cr will
> become an issue. If this does not seem worthwhile
> ill go back to getting a
> set of suitable low cr pistons for my motor, as I
> have virtually everything
> else in my garage.
> Thanks all
>
>
>
>


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