Nice buy!
And welcome to the forum.
You could basically buy any rods you want, to be honest. SCAT are cheap and should be good for about 200hp/litre, which puts you just over 1000hp. There are other options out there people go with, such as DM Forged, Carrillo, Pauter and others. Take your pick, pretty hard to miss.
Stock rings should be fine. Pistons, well, I'm partial to the Mahle hybrid alloy versions as being sold by Issam. They're currently on round two of a group buy.
http://www.s2forum.com/forum/showthread ... post893274They blend the OEM and race alloys to allow for the properties of the best of both worlds and avoid the shortcomings of either. Otherwise, I was going to buy Wossner pistons as they control the entire supply chain and manufacturing process in house as compared to being manufactured and possibly machined in China like most other brands. I ended up with Wiseco with my build, but that's not exactly like sitting at the kid's table either. JE are good, Diamond are good, etc. Get a slipper skirt design and balance the rotating assembly and you should be golden.
If you're building for 1000 hp, best to buy and build everything at once. New ARP hardware, coated bearings, OEM gasket set, MLS head gasket, valve train, etc.
Good build threads... well take your pick around here haha.
There's Jim Green's Vomit Comet, Chris' Revver project, Darin's 80tq, Hank's Urq, John Iroz's Her Mars Urq, Pops' Stroker, Matt Chaloux's 4FOXSN8 4kqt build, Dana's 80tq, Chris Brydon/Wheeljack's eS2, HybridHatch/Dave's multiple eS2 builds, of course Javad's 80tq build on MG/80tq.com, Chris' (Varia) S2 conversion, the guys from the PNW (axldgr8, The German (v8, I know), Afterthought, 85oceanic, etc), anything by Martin Pajak (ralleyquattro/quattro.ca), the SQ copy builds from Ontario, Hap's Da Green Monsta, Scubadave's build, amdisthebest/Nick's 200 sedan and Avant, 123quattro's 200 20v, araipilot's build, and on and on and on. haha. That should be a good start. I'm barely scratching the surface.