I figured this would be the appropriate section to post this question.
Here's the story:
I currently own a 1986.5 Mk3 Toyota Supra (n/a 7M-GE with W58 5 speed) with 115k miles on the chassis and only 8k miles on the rebuilt engine. It's been stock ever since my father helped me rebuild the engine a few years ago. Well now that I have finally begun college and the car is officially mine I figured I really want to invest in it to try and build the car that I want. Currently I am going to school for High Performance Engine Machining so regardless of what I do the engine will be torn down over the next year and have head work done to it (exp: port and polish, 3 angle valve job, pocket porting, etc.) but I will most likely keep the internals of either engine fairly stock besides maybe an aftermarket camshaft and maybe replacement valve springs (obviously turbo pistons if I turbo the 7m).
I want to do one of two things. A) Turbocharge my 7M or B) Swap in a 1JZ-GTE single turbo. Regardless I plan on swapping my W58 for an R154.
My goal for the build:
I want something that can be a fun daily but that I can also take out to an autocross event, a road course race, and even a few amateur drift events. The build will go over the next year of my school so I have time to do a build properly and I also have time to decide and get more information. I would like to make 300+ horsepower to the wheels so I'm just looking for decent power not some monstrous 700hp build. My school has a very accurate Mustang Chassis Dyno so that I can find out how much horsepower I am making (currently 200 horsepower and 193 ft/lbs of torque to the wheels with my current setup).
I want to find out from the community if there are any problems/flaws that I should know about each platform. I have some general knowledge but I know for a fact that a lot of you are going to know way more about this sort of thing.
So my main question is, which option will be the most affordable and reliable?
Any information and help will be much appreciated.
Here's the story:
I currently own a 1986.5 Mk3 Toyota Supra (n/a 7M-GE with W58 5 speed) with 115k miles on the chassis and only 8k miles on the rebuilt engine. It's been stock ever since my father helped me rebuild the engine a few years ago. Well now that I have finally begun college and the car is officially mine I figured I really want to invest in it to try and build the car that I want. Currently I am going to school for High Performance Engine Machining so regardless of what I do the engine will be torn down over the next year and have head work done to it (exp: port and polish, 3 angle valve job, pocket porting, etc.) but I will most likely keep the internals of either engine fairly stock besides maybe an aftermarket camshaft and maybe replacement valve springs (obviously turbo pistons if I turbo the 7m).
I want to do one of two things. A) Turbocharge my 7M or B) Swap in a 1JZ-GTE single turbo. Regardless I plan on swapping my W58 for an R154.
My goal for the build:
I want something that can be a fun daily but that I can also take out to an autocross event, a road course race, and even a few amateur drift events. The build will go over the next year of my school so I have time to do a build properly and I also have time to decide and get more information. I would like to make 300+ horsepower to the wheels so I'm just looking for decent power not some monstrous 700hp build. My school has a very accurate Mustang Chassis Dyno so that I can find out how much horsepower I am making (currently 200 horsepower and 193 ft/lbs of torque to the wheels with my current setup).
I want to find out from the community if there are any problems/flaws that I should know about each platform. I have some general knowledge but I know for a fact that a lot of you are going to know way more about this sort of thing.
So my main question is, which option will be the most affordable and reliable?
Any information and help will be much appreciated.