Starting over with the photos now but with captions. Some
oil just under the front of the intake manifold. Possibly an
RTV leak. |
The interior of the motor is squeaky clean. Love the
frequent oil changes. The intake runners all have some oil
stains and I don't know exactly where that's coming from right
now. |
Intake runners with the oil stains. |
The other side. |
Spark plugs look to me like the tune up was very very good. |
Just another view. |
Prior to removing the valve train. |
The valve tips do not show any witness marks. No wear at all? |
Everything is organized nicely in my valve-train organizer tray. |
The oil pump drive gear and the cam gear had only slight wear.
(normal). |
The cam lobes all look normal with slight wear. |
No oil gunk on the chambers. No signs of oil ring blow by. |
A view of all the piston tops. This all looks a bit cleaner
than most motors I've seen. |
The other bank. |
One rod bearing out of 8 had some dirt stains. This is #1
but the photo does not show it very well. |
All the rod bearings look quite nice, (except #1) |
Piston skirt rocking in the bore makes that mark on the cylinder
wall. |
Photo sort of out of order but here is the bottom end right after
taking off the oil pan. |
Crank out and main bearing are all like new except the thrust. |
The thrust bearing has one dirt line from debris. |
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The crank is at the
balance shop waiting for balance, (needs heavy metal
probably). The block is going to get a plateau hone to be
ready for the new pistons. |
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Finally the balance is completed. I delayed for quite a
while too due to wedding plans and all that jazz. So here
are the new pistons on the oid Compstar rods. |
Another view. |
Sorry there are not more photos...I started the day with no
batteries for the camera...I did not want to delay so I put the
crank in and did the ring gap..then went to the store. |
Speed Pro Hell-Fire. The top is at .026" and so is the
2nd ring, as per Speed Pro suggestion. The top ring is very
stiff, (hard). The 2nd ring is quite soft. |
Started out with ACL standard H-series bearings and that gave
.003" rod bearing clearance. Then went to Clevite
H-series standard and have .0025" clearance. The
Clevites are what I used. |
New camera allows me to get macro photos now. The bore
hone. It is a plateau hone. |
Nice photo of the JE piston in the hole. |
Not an official deck-height measurment yet but just an eyball.
It is in the hole some .005" |
All pistons in except #7. |
All pistons in. |
Posing. |
More posing. |
And more posing. |
The bottom end. |
Final torque of rod bolts, (75ft-lb), .018" to .020" rod
side clearance. |
Nice view of the JE pistons |
Timing set install, TDC find. |
Piston is .002" in the hole. |
Cam is dead nuts on at 112deg intake lobe center. |
Another view of degree check set up. |
Old timing cover on and new seals to be installed. |
New Titan Gerotor oil pump. Stud nut at 65ft-lb with moly. |
Fitting of windage tray. |
Rod clearance check. |
Have to bend the tray for the Stef's pan. |
Dipstick tube bends a little around the main cap nut. |
Pan does not fit. |
Mistake in manufacture. |
Another pan off the shelf and it does fit. |
Trial fitting prior to oil pan gasket. Crank clearance
check. |
Some spots on the oil pan need to be ground for crank clearance. |
Fit-check looks good. |
One of the last motors to be assembled in my shop/kitchen.
Will be married soon and my shop will become a home. Engine
building will be outside on the porch or new garage. |
New ARP 12pt head bolts. Super clean and with ARP thread
sealant. |
FelPro head gasket on and a good look at the cylinders and
pistons.
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One head on and here is a final look at the pistons.. |
Another view. |
Head on and ARP head bolts at 65ft-lb |
The Jesel shaft rocker stands will be installed over these
.100" shims. |
Taking a break here. The Jesel shaft stand bolts are being
soaked in cleaning solution so that I can put sealant on the threads
to keep oil from being sucked into the intake runner. |
Jesel rocker stands are on and the bolts have ARP thread sealant. |
The intake manifold intake runners were cleaned with brakclean so
that we can see if oil is getting in the intake in the future. |
The manifold looks to sit pretty well on the gasket. This is
just a mock-up to see if I can spot problems. |
Another view. |
This pan is hard to fit. I did quite a lot
"tweaking" for lack of a better word. |
Here I'm just putting RTV on the gasket/block surface and not on
the pan/gasket surface so that the pan can be removed. |
More views of the oil pan. |
Now with 4 quarts of Shell Rotella 30 weight. |
The Titan gerotor oil pump is spinning nicely with my drill at
2500rpm. 60psig. |
Intake manifold on and motor wrapped and ready for shipping. |
