beaterX project thread

[Mark Leasure]

Did you get it back together this weekend?

[scheides]

Did you get it back together this weekend?

Hell yea! JUST got back from ripping around the neighborhood. Total, about 4 hours apart, couple hours (ok like 4) of cleaning and getting parts run around, maybe about 6 hours to get it back together. I made a few boneheaded mistakes but hey I caught them before it was too late :)

Yanked the cams to bolt the head to the block (dumb design imho but whatever):

http://www.scheides.com/albums/evox-headrefresh/IMG_3421.sized.jpg

Freshy fresh:
http://www.scheides.com/albums/evox-headrefresh/IMG_3422.sized.jpg

found a few nicks in the headgasket I got, not sure if that was from me or mitsu or what but I sure wish they would put these things in cardboard packaging, would be worth the extra $5 cost imho
http://www.scheides.com/albums/evox-headrefresh/IMG_3423.sized.jpg

I cleaned it up as best I could and used it anyways, it looks worse than it is I think.
http://www.scheides.com/albums/evox-headrefresh/IMG_3424.sized.jpg

gasket on, head bolted down, cams bolted in, gears on, timing chain mounted and timing set, chain tensioner set(this was one of my oopsies, put it in but forgot to tighten the bolts! doh!), and timing cover cleaned, RTV'd, installed, uninstalled, re-rtv'd, and re-installed :D

http://www.scheides.com/albums/evox-headrefresh/IMG_3426.sized.jpg

More freshy-fresh parts! I put in the revised timing chain from the 2010's:
http://www.scheides.com/albums/evox-headrefresh/IMG_3425.sized.jpg

New on the left (mounted), old one on the right:
http://www.scheides.com/albums/evox-headrefresh/IMG_3427.sized.jpg

After all the belt problems I had, bought a new tensioner and pulley. The pulley was like $65 and the tensioner + pulley was only like $30 more so I just got the whole assembly (still plastic but goes nice with my nice metal hyundai pulleys!)
http://www.scheides.com/albums/evox-headrefresh/IMG_3428.sized.jpg


So that's about it! Fired right up, no leaks yet, changed oil, fresh coolant, ripped it around the block a few times and parked it. Undertray, heat shields, and strut tower go back on tomorrow and it's back to DD duty for this pig. Car still sounds kinda diesely on cold start (but it always has a little) so its part injectors and maybe the rings on #1 are part of the problem. I'll just check the oil every 100 miles (as I have been all fall) and see what happens. Gonna check logs (did some quick pulls but with all the snow there's no traction!) and drink a beer.

THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR YOUR INPUT! Thank you MAP for the parts and coordinating with Wagemon Bros machine shop, total downtime was only *three* days, not bad!

[95talonracer]

Did you have to mess with checking clearances on bucket to cams on these cars? The 2jz's are the same whee you have to remove the cams to install the headstuds as well.

[Halon]

Nice, and good choice on the GSC springs :)

[scheides]

Did you have to mess with checking clearances on bucket to cams on these cars? The 2jz's are the same whee you have to remove the cams to install the headstuds as well.

Yup. I did it myself last time and it took two weeks (had to order a bunch of different ones). I let the machine shop do it this time and it took two hours. :P

[scheides]

Nice, and good choice on the GSC springs :)

Honestly GSC Beehives and GSC S2 cams were my first choice for this car but they were on *uber* backorder so I went with the Supertechs based on a few recommendations and the Kelfords kinda the same. I had Kelford 272's in my evo8 so I knew they would be decent, but considering they idle *almost* like stock and are only 270° / 262° (exhaust cam is only 10.3mm of lift!) but make 600whp on a dynojet I gotta say I'm pretty damn impressed. I was pumped to go to the S2's and hope to pick up 15-20whp or so but maybe I'd be just dreaming. This setup was real nice, I'm sorry I had to mess with it but I'm glad I got the beehives now!

[turbotalon1g]

:woot:

Glad to here it's alive again! Way to bring in the new year!

[C3L1CA]

That's awesome it was only down for 3 days!


Think you'll do some even crazier build down the line sometime?

[rose0529]

Glad to hear its up and running!

[tmosser]

Get together and running good. Then sell

Or trade me for my ix

Really glad to see you got it back together, good work too!