Well done ... and keep up the great work

 

Nice catch! When I had my machine shop press in the new arp bolts, they tightened down to spec (we both use a stretch gauge), and then checked the ends for roundness - I seem to remember they were within spec but that was with stock rods.

Cheers,

Mike

 

Wow, awesome choices. Should be a kick *** street motor. Though I must admit, it'd be hard for me to go this deep and not go for the gt3 crank / pump. I applaud your restraint!

 

looks good Noah!
What are the cam specs?
what size are the valves? oe or?
piston/pin weights?

 

Saw that too. Are these new this year or have they been out. Seem to remember an old post about 9m heads and megawhopperdogburger amounts of power.

 

9m Heads have been available for quite a while now (5 Plus years)...

 

Things have ground to a halt for the moment, I regret to report -- the skirts of the pistons are a few mm too long, discovered during test-fitting. They were hitting the case webs at the bottom of the stroke. Machine shop is trimming them this week and then it'll be game on again. The piston manufacturer screwed up (the pistons are fine other than skirt length).

 

Game on. Started back up yesterday afternoon. Aiming to fire it up Saturday.

The piston problem, in one picture:


Getting back underway -- for those who don't know, this is a ring compressor. You cinch it around the rings, compressing them into the piston so you can tap the piston into the cylinder.


This is how it looked at the end of last night.



Chain boxes and ramps, and a few induction items -- shroud, injector blocks, fuel rails and injectors, etc. Starting to look like an engine.



This is the Stomski Racing digital degree wheel. You affix it to the crank and it lets you observe the rotation of the engine to within 1/10th of a degree, find actual TDC, and time the cams just about as perfectly as possible.


Here's what I'm talking about. The factory TDC mark on the pulley is in between the two white hash marks. It's supposed to line up with the notch in the fan housing. But with a TDC finder and the digital degree wheel, we see that actual TDC is about a degree off the factory setting.


These are blanking plugs. The cruise control used to be here.


Tomorrow the cams will be timed, the long block sealed up, intake and exhaust manifolds installed, and preparation for installation back into the car....

 

Great work!!!

 

Incredible work.

What goes on the stud just forward of the breather housing?



Andreas

 

That's a case perimeter stud-needing a nut.^^

 

Hi Noah,
Izzat Rick on the first pic of the thread? He doesn't have any grey hair yet, good to know.

 

Yup -- nothing on there yet because that's where you put the bracket for lifting the engine.

Sure is! -- still going strong.

 

Given you are using Carillo pistons; 9M heads and cams and 964 mechanical rockers, you are essentially putting together an unmeasured engine. Are you going to check valve/piston clearances through the cam range as a check?

 

Awesome work - that digital degree wheel is slick!

Had to look up how it works:
http://www.stomskiracing.com/instructions/SR095.pdf