Newaza

Having a second car for primary daily driver is a smart move. If you are new to fabbing and wrenching you likely don't want to hack up and heavily modify your only ride unless you have a good budget set aside for ubers and cab fair LOL...

If I were in your shoes and once I had a good daily I would have no qualms about adding a lowish boost turbo setup on a 200k engine if its in good shape. However doing the ecu deal first and learning it prior to turbo is a good idea. Even if its a stock motor just to get your feet wet and learn the ropes on the tuning aspect of the game.

Mattman

well guys I have just had a long conversation with my mom and because the HOA doesn't allow parking on the street I cannot own two cars so now I'm in a dilemma Im only worried about turboing my car because if/when it blows up I won't have a daily to fall back on to where as with a k-swap I can refresh the motor on the side and over the summer do the swap in a week or two because I won't be needing to drive to school everyday what do you guys think of this plan? is it too ballsy should I just accept defeat and not modify my engine.

Kboi12

K swapping a motor is much harder than turboing a BP. With your suggested plan you can just build a BP on the side with a turbo on it. Do all the hard stuff with the motor out and over the summer pull your old trans & engine out stick on the new clutch and trans to the new motor then put it in. If your so determined to turbo your daily there so many guides on this site in doing it right. You can easily make a decent and reliable turbo setup if you actually read the posts on this site. Many of us track stock motors with minimal problems, it can easily be done on a daily driver.

PS: With HOA pretty sure you can pay to get a additional parking spot.

Mattman

Wow I can’t believe I haven’t thought of this. I really feel like an idiot I am gonna go forward with this thanks.