whats the crack with 16v turbo?

[kazi]

(07-31-2017 10:57 PM)Bean Wrote:  The power itself isn't the real issue it's the increased torque of a turbo build that will drastically decrease the life of your drivetrain.
With an ITB build you'd struggle to get 240whp that's pretty much up there with the most powerful NA 4AGEs in existence (so difficult and very expensive).

If you really want to achieve good value and some sort of reliability I'd aim lower with the power or consider a different engine all together

Yes sorry, should have made that clear that I'm not after 240hp going NA. Would be nice but damn near impossible. I'm going to stick with 16v. At the moment I can't bring myself to put anything else into an 86 apart from the 16v. As much as I'm wanting to turbo and as backwards as my next line is, I want to keep the car as original (in terms of engine anyway) as I can.