Turbo or High Compression

[thedemonhatesme]

I have a 2003 Protege with a 2.0L motor and with the benifit of working at a dealership I was able to get ahold of another 2.0L motor that a guy hydrolocked the engine....So plan is to tear it down and rebuild it from scratch. My biggest determination is deciding what type of setup to go with. What are the benefits of running a high compression engines as compared to running a turbo setup? I'm setting my goals kinda low at this point... The engine puts out around 130-40 at the crank stock... Hoping to reach around the 250 mark. I'm fairly new to working on eniges in terms of mods... But I have people to help me out. Let me know what you think

Thanks
Josh

 

[Protege5 Driver]

turbo runs faster

 

[bazooka joe]

(iagree)turbo, do the internals too!

 

[mazdaspeedemon2]

it would be easer to hit 250hp with a turbo but its alot more tuning and less daily driver frendly
going n/a it would take alot more work on the block, head, and intake to hit 250hp
and im not sure if anyone has hit that mark yet i maybe wrong i think that the n/a mark is around 200hp but do a search for n/a stuff

 

[Tom03es]

The N/A mark is around 198 hp at the wheels. If you check out the NA Tech section, there is a little competition going on to see who can crack the 100 hp/liter NA. The 250 hp NA @ crank method will be MUCH harder than the F/I route.

 

[BinoMP5]

yea... check out NA Tech Section and the FI Section to get more info...
r u going for 250whp? if so... turbo is the less stressful, cheaper way. This is coming from a guy who's doing a motor swap so.... yea...

 

[FunkRider]

If you use 1.8 pistons from the 99-00 protege you'll get 9.7:1 compression in the 2.0 block. Nice cheap upgrade if you want more compression.

If your looking for that kind of power just save you're self disappointment and go turbo.

 

[ForceFed]

Yup..you will likely NEVER see 250 HP in a N/A version of this motor...Period.
If you want that power..turbo is the only way.
And that way..It not be cheap!