Up to a certain level of HP, you can do it with all junkyard parts. Pretty cheaply, in other words.
I wouldn't spend too much effort +t ing your cars current motor, since it was in the 'low friction' years for the B230 - meaning it has lighter rods that bend easily if you make any misstep in tuning along the way. The late 89 and on B230's have much stronger rods that can handle a few mistakes along the way without ventilating the block. You can blow up a motor with strong rods as well, but you have to try a lot harder.
93+ motors have piston oil squirters, which keeps the piston temps more controlled. Good for boosted motors. Whether or not the motr has them installed is a bit iffy, supposedly some motors built before 93 had them (the blocks got the casting change that allows for them in '90), But some blocks are undrilled, some are drilled and tapped but have plugs installed. Supposedly almost all the later engines ahve them, and a good way to identify a later engine is to see if it has the square toothed timing belt or the round toothed timing belt. The round toothed belt engines are the later engines that will almost certainly have the squirters already installed.
Of course, if a squirter motor isn't easy to find, and you are going to rebuild the motor anyhow instead of just installing a lightly refreshed junkyard motor (seals and gaskets), you can fairly easily put squirters in any block.
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'63 PV544 rat rod, '93 Classic #1141 245 (now w/16V turbo)
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