Originally Posted by mitsuguy

I'm confused... you have low compression and you want to replace the head? the least likely cause of low compression, or have we condemned the head at this point?

Why would you want a GTE head over a GE head anyways? the GE head flows better stock and either one in stock form are good for more than 1000 hp...

The W55 transmission will only hold up to 300-350 hp, depending on how hard you are on it, time to swap for an R154 or similar...

Having done both, I can honestly say I would rather build a GE motor and turbo it, than try to jack with the wiring and such on a GTE swap... especially considering you can build it the way you want, turbo it the way you want, etc...

I would not trust the stock GE internals at 350 hp for a long long time... they are weak as can be and rely on perfect, dead on, conservative tuning to survive... Reality is, you can build a GE short block with GTE internals for cheap, throw your GE head on there and good to go... add a turbo kit and now you are the right way to do NA-T....

Originally Posted by 2k2IS300

New plan. Finding a used GE long block and r154 trans and building while it is still out of the vehicle.

Originally Posted by 2k2IS300

New plan. Finding a used GE long block and r154 trans and building while it is still out of the vehicle.