Building a new engine using EL bottem end.

[volcom20]

Alright, well, i was ringing around for an EL engine block (6 cyl) and my local wreaker has one for 160 dollars (I almost died when I saw how cheap it was, and it's in great condition).

I plan to go and pick it up sometime within the next week. What I'm planning to do is bore it out, fully balance the whole bottem end and use forged pistons and conrods.

Anyway, anyone know how far the EL 6 cyl block can actually be bored out by? I'm hoping to get 60 thou safely.

I'm tossing up weather or not to go with forged bits and pieces, because the engine will be an N/A for atleast 3 years.

After it's bored out and fully balanced, then I'll try to find eaither A) An XR6 head, and have it ported/polished with a crow cam and all the rest of it (heavy springs etc) or B) Find a completely new aftermarket head, that a police officer wont be able to tell it apart from a stock one.

A new ECU will probably be implanted sometime after the new engine is finished, because I want to see if the stock one will even run it smoothly lol.

I was also thinking about getting some bigger, better injectors? Is there any advantage of this the engine?

Once the engine side's done it'll get all the other little goodies like K&N panel filter, 21/2" exaust, pacemakers, stally etc

As this will be my first engine build (My old mans 11th, lol, but he still has no idea), I have no idea what to expect power wise? Anyone wanna guess?

I'm basically doing this for one reason - I hate commodores :P