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MrYour pretty much on top of it.
Any sr20 crank will do. 4cw has the advantage of being lighter for better responce. 8cw will be more street friendly giving less engine vibration. make sure you use the spacer from the VZR crank or the harmonic balancer will not clear the timing cover.
You don't need turbo rods unless your planning on turboing it. That said, they will work if thats what you have available. For NA just use some stock SR20 rods with a set of ARP bolts.
Pistons. The safest route is to use SR20VE pistons. They will give 10.3:1 compression which is nice and easy to tune for pump gas yet still offering reasonable power. You can use your SR16VE pistons but the compression ratio is too high for pump gas. Even with shaved pistons I feel it is too high compression. If you want higher than stock compression either get custom pistons made or plane the head 0.5 - 1.0mm (ala VZR n1). If you do go down the head planning route pay special atention to piston to valve clearances when re assembling and use a genuine N1 timing chain tensioner.
You don't need to change the oil pan or the sump. Unless you decide to fit the girdle from an SR20DE. In which case you will need to modify the SR16 lower pan to clear the girdle.
ECU wise you can stick with your P10 ECU and fit a daughterboard, but you will need an external controller to switch the cams. Some have used the VZR ecu without any daughter board and fitted 370cc injectors to compensate for the 2.0L displacement. You will need a VZR MAF for this to work. This setup seems to work ok but would be better if a daughterboard is fitted as well. A P11 MAF will be suficient if using a daugterboard.
Final option is a stand alone. They are more expensive and time consuming to fit but offer the advantage of being able to remove the MAF as well as having special funtions like launch cotrol, flat shifting ect.
Yep, what he said pretty much sums it up.
I've recently done pretty much exactly what he has suggested, and got a healthy 139.9kW at the wheels, with a nice easy driveable mid etc...
It's all down to the tuning abilty of whoever you decide to use. Given a no-budget build, I'd go standalone, though you'll get good results from a daughterboard, as many have.
The 1600pistons are great for those chasing the high O/Ps, and you have a greater selection of cams with this kind of compression; but for street, STD 2litre pistons would be fine.
A lot of people use the 1600cams, and for a drop in and go, they really do well. Check out the recent dyno results from NZ, on the Torque performance NZPCC day.
I have a set of STD 2litre pistons left over from my big-build that are sitting in my garage, along with a few other parts, that you may find usefull.
Which ever route you decide to go, good luck, done correctly these are a great motor for power, and delivery.