Back at it

[blackawdtsi]

And thanks to the wife for helping support my addiction. :spin:

[turbotalon1g]

Nice. why did u change pump setups?

I take it the current motor is a 7 bolt?

[blackawdtsi]

Nice. why did u change pump setups?

I take it the current motor is a 7 bolt?

Newer tech for fuel. :)

And no, the motor isn't 7 bolt. The Wiseco HD's were off the shelf 10.5:1 CR. If you look at the 6 bolt pistons they're only 8.5:1. Both pistons are the exact same dimensions omitting the CR and wrist pins. The 7 bolt pins are 1mm thicker than 6 bolts also. So I also get 1mm thicker wrist pins in 10.5:1 off the shelf (yes MAP had them in stock) at the cost of drilling out my rod bushings 1mm. :spin:

[turbotalon1g]

I see.

I know about using those rods, just wondering if u had a 6 or 7.

[blackawdtsi]

Bearings decided to eat themselves.


Time for a new motor.

[blackawdtsi]

I took advantage of this decent weather and tore my oil pan off today.

While poking around the car I found this, which I was told was hooked up:
http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj48/twoo662/2g/photo-12.jpg

And this:
http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj48/twoo662/2g/photo-13.jpg

Considering all of the I/C piping was also loose; I'm going to go over the whole car before it leaves the garage again.

Anyway, here's what was in my oil pan.
http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj48/twoo662/2g/photo-14.jpg

And I bet you can't guess which one was spinning haha.
http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj48/twoo662/2g/photo-16.jpg

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj48/twoo662/2g/photo-15.jpg

Even though the bearing looks like it had a bad night in gitmo, the crank is surprisingly smooth. If the one rod wasn't blued from heat, I would throw another set of bearings in and see how it went.

I didn't have enough time to pull the motor out today but at least I know the situation now. The next decent day I'll get the motor out and send the rods out to be reconditioned and crank to be cut. Hopefully the crank doesn't need to go past .10 under. If it does, I won't be running it since DG Motors wants $180 to re-nitride it and who knows when I'd get it back. I have a nice OEM crank I picked up but I was trying to save it for the next build.

Will update when the motors out.

[93gtpeater]

Sucks you spun a rod bearing on the new car. I guess its a good thing that happened too. You got under the car and found some things wrong. Hope the rebuild goes smooth.

[blackawdtsi]

Yeah unfortunately it requires my car to be down for two weeks.

[blackawdtsi]

Time for another update. I got time to work on the car yesterday. Everything's off except the motor mounts. I also put together a new motor hoist. Nothing too exciting but I'm getting there even with a lot of days between me working on it.

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj48/twoo662/2g/IMG_1030.jpg

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj48/twoo662/2g/IMG_1031.jpg

[blackawdtsi]

Put together my motor stand and got the motor out.

I had decided since the passenger axle didn't want to come out; I was going to leave it in and rip it apart.....

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj48/twoo662/2g/photo-18.jpg

Damn thing stayed together! I ended up prying it out at a nice open angle since it stayed together with the motor literally out of the engine bay.

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj48/twoo662/2g/photo-17.jpg

Will get the crank and rods to Wagamon tomorrow. They said 2-3 day turn around so hopefully Wednesday she will be running again!