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Have already had an reply with ecu pinouts from that forum. super helpful bart, cheers!

Signed up to that forum and will ask the questions after a poke around. came accross a thread detailing how to megasquirt the genIII hemi, so that will be super useful when we hemi the merc SL600 at work!

cheers! i bought those hemi mounts anyway. for the money spent i probably couldn't get the mount bushes and weld in chassis side. so if i have to make a new engine side plate, or redrill, thats fine by me!

the seem to go alright, not over quick in the truck, and who knows what the economy is like. dont suppose you have any contacts in the mopar world with access to wiring diagrams? Armstrong prestige told me they have then but wouldn't give them to me. cunts, i used to dish that info out no problem when i was at bmw.

Ive been looking into them and im not convinced that true, it looks like the early engines were manufactured at Daimler. but a lot of resources on internet claim its a new Chrysler design, that said, it does appear to be a separate design from the 5.7 at any rate so i do doubt the mount kit will fit, although it may still be cheaper to mod the 5.7 kit than it is to buy all the parts on their own. are there universal mount kits available locally? also note the twin spark plugs i never noticed! 16 fucking spark plugs! im certainly no expert though, but this page has alot of info https://www.allpar.com/mopar/47.html

also does anyone here have access to the ecu wiring diagram/pinout for the 2009+ 4.7 v8s came out of a 2013 dodge ram 1500 2wd and has 3 plugs on the ecu, some seem to have 4 smaller plugs.

Hi mopar experts. I have a quick questions, you can buy "project car" engine mount kits for the new gen 5.7 hemi engine for fuck all out of the states. now im putting the not so flash 4.7 dodge motor into my car, and wondered if anyone knows do they share the same block mounting pattern? as in could i use the 5.7 kit, bolt it to my 4.7 and weld it into the car. the internet hasn't been much help, but i did find out the 5.7 and the 4.7 use the same transmission, so a hemi swap down the line could be an option, especially if the mounts are the same.

oh man, i definitely need to remember these meets. drive the 1 minute down the road to spitfire square and add the crown to that sweet lineup of big body toyotas

Cheers! Yup that's the plan. Most of the house is already done. White walls, black doors. Carried that monochrome theme through the rest of the house with dashs of red throughout. Sorry Ash for the thread hijack! Cheers for the advice though. Worked a treat

Just enough stain left to build a knock off of your table in coffee table size too.

Thinning it out made all the difference, rolled on with a foam roller like a dream. Now to paint that window frame black and fit the kick boards!

i did a test spot and it was like putting Tar on. mines a specific flooring version but will see how it goes and perhaps mix some clear for a 3rd or 4th coat. im wondering if it needs to be warmed to apply given how cold its been down here recently? how was yours? might try thinning it out too.

so thats why that thing was so fucking fast.....

that looks great. in the next week or two im gonna be jamming alot of that black japan stain over my kitchen floor. looking forward to the results! got me thinking i should use any left overs to make a similar coffee table!

Had a company track day today, took the crown for a couple of laps, 100% just for a Photo Op. holy shit its terrible on track! cant corner at speed to save itself, might need a wheel alignment, but im pretty sure its just the chinese tires and nearly 2 ton weight! it did pull a (GPS indicated) touch under 170 km/h down the main straight which i thought was pretty epic for a 2ton brick with a soggy automatic. that little supercharged 1g can really pull! if it didnt over heat the brakes after two laps and wore a better set of tires, there would be more in it, but its unlikely to ever see track work again. especially once the mopar miata is running.

just found out my sister may not be using her car for 6 months, so might be able to nab that and get to work on the crown! cheers though

once i nail down whether or not ill be swapping blocks, or boring this one, ill definitely be on the hunt for a cross over, otherwise its saving time.

is pin height not compression height? none of the piston dimension drawing listed anything else? but i can measure anything your interested in tomorrow. and in more detail/accurate next week

rough piston measurements are Diameter - 88.5 mm (stock) Comp height - 42.5 mm Pin diameter - 22.0 mm these measurements were taken by measuring with my dead electric verniers, locking them and then measuring the verniers with a steel ruler. so by absolutely no means definite. but for anyone interested there they are. ill take proper measurements later on and post them here

i know what your saying. put it this way, i had a thin rag wiping down the bores and felt 'dents' as i moved up and down, they are probably half a mil deep at an absolute guess. 1mil over would probably cure it, but if i can get something thatll do 1.5mil it would be sweet as. one of the dents is weirdly smooth, not corrosion like at all. not sure about that one. im also exploring a couple of leads for other blocks. so will see how those pan out too. im not going to get a chance to grab a battery for my calipers today, but will go roughly measure them with a ruler today and make a start on seeing if anything will be in the ball park of fitting. it ran bizzarly well for the state of the bores. it had some issues with poor idle and flat spots, but i still am pretty confident those are tune and ecu trigger related. it only had about 2 hours total of road and track tuning in it. feeling slightly better today, but still pretty sad. anyone want to sell me a $500 shitbox so i can get the crown panel and painted and not have it deteriorate.

3 and 4 are substantially worse. 1 and 2 are only stained and i cant feel anything with a fingernail. initially i thought all 4 were like that and i was happy to give a quick hone and carry on. where abouts do you work? i may be money poor but boy am im also time poor on another level... still keen to try get it in somewhere for a look.

thoughts on the condition of 3 and 4? where the bore has deteriorated? a simple case of bore it out, or are there other factors? i read your escort thread, looks like expensive (rightfully) processes which kinda bums me out right now. im not a particularly rich man, but the thought of shelving the project is even worse.

id be searching catalogs as we speak if my calipers didnt run out of battery i regret not owning an old school set now. cant even find specs for the OG pistons online!

I'm a little worried that the source of my leak into the cooling issue could be related to this, and there's a crack somewhere in there. Any ideas on how to check for this, or would it be rather obvious? The machining isn't something you can do @NickJ? Though I think your shop does cnc stuff primarily yeah? Edited cause of wrong Nick taged lol. though i think NickM is actually someone who works in the motorsport industry

ive got a lead on an old school reconditioner that 2 of my work mates have worked with (one even did his apprenticeship with him) and a third work mate has been a customer. he sounds experienced and well priced. im unsure what sort of a bill to expect though. i can buy 1mm over pistons but im not all that sure thatll be enough 1.5mm (90mm) would be preferable if i can find something thatll cross over. ive not looked at the valve seats, its another thing i didnt really worry about because of the good comp test ect. will have a look once i grab a valve compressor. hopefully they arnt fucked too. it genuinely did go well. im very surprised to say the least.