Ahsai

Can't wait for your pics and vids. Btw, any mods needed for the throttle body, injectors and DME tune? Or the stock ones will be fine?

AWDGuy

I think if you go to the beginning of this thread, it depends on who's answering that question; ) it's been discussed.

I was told by LNE that no supporting mods are needed.

at the minimum, I will get a tune done.

I wish I could afford more...but I do love my wife, AND my life. ha!

Ahsai

Oh yea, I remember now

AWDGuy

very short vid of the 1 of many pulls with a fish scale

https://youtu.be/GgRwUGCEIPM

crankshaft, bearing case polished and cleaned up by the local machine shop. they also performed all the balancing.

new coated OE main bearings from LNE, new OE thrust washers, ARP hardware.






Everything is so clean.





2nd most expensive set of bolts Ive ever bought



Main bearings pressed in.





thrust washers installed, these have grooves in them and it is important they face out. One on each side:



added engine assembly lube to the bearings and washers, and dropping the crankshaft in:



Make sure those washers didn't budge as they just float in the groove





measure the thrust:



Smooth as butter:


add arp bolts and torqued per their recommendations


not pictured - oil scraper installed with new gaskets and bolts.

wrapped back up in plastic and put away until next week....

Imo000

Nice work. I'm just a little further than you. Have 3 con rod's attached to the crank. Agree, those ARP bolts are stupid expensive. Had to wait for mine 8 weeks and it was around $350CDN. Did you have the crankshaft polished? From the pictures it doesn't look like it was done.

Edit: Sorry I mixed those up with the con Rod bolts.

AWDGuy

yup, journals were polished on the crankshaft. what you see is streaks from the engine assembly lube when I turned it in the half bearing case.

do you have a thread?

Imo000

Yes I do but it's on a different site where I don't need to pay to post pictures. http://reutterwerk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=42947

Currently I'm fixing a fellow RL's 928 but as soon as I'm done with it, the 996 project is restarting.

Imo000

Just a comment on the thrust bearings. It's amazing how minimalistic they are. Normally they are part of the main bearing and go all the way around the crank. The 996 essentially only has half the amount of thrust bearing surface area as other "more normal" engines. The power of the bean counters certainly come through here. The other unique thing about 996 engine parts is that they sell the main and connecting Rod bearings individualy and not in pairs. Who the hell would buy just a half a bearing? Very bizarre. Maybe it's a Porsche thing.

AWDGuy

I'll join later...need to be a member to see the pics.

Byprodriver

Insure you don't get a early housing with 3 mounting points instead of the improved 4 mounting points.

Imo000

Sorry I didn't realise that. However signing up is the same as here, very simple. The site is actually owned by the original owner of Rennlist.

ChicagoSpeed996

Any updates AWD?

AWDGuy

Charles at LNE saw my thread and was nice enough to offer me some stuff I couldn't refuse. so while I wait for the parts to get to him, I sent my IMS shaft and bearing to LNE for an inspection. once I get the parts in, I can continue with the build, but with the holidays and another baby on the way, updates will be sparse. I promiss to post here when I do make progress though.

slowly but surely.

ltusler

I would imagine he is going to pin the shaft for you. but you may want to double check with him.

sweet victory

Weird, I've been able to post pictures no problem as a free loader.