Popular Post vk327 Posted November 3, 2023 Author Popular Post Share Posted November 3, 2023 Had a few hours free after a customer wiring job so smashed out the 3" stainless exhaust, no Instagram welds here but tidy enough best part it doesn't hit anywhere... Also how good does the paint look in the evening light 20 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vk327 Posted November 7, 2023 Author Share Posted November 7, 2023 Well after so much progress on this thing and booking it for dyno tune tomorrow, it gives me a swift kick in the nuts... had it running Saturday everything fine bled coolant all good... took it for a drive last night all seeming well pulled back into the shed and a weird rattling noise getting louder and oil pressure at idle dropped to 12psi, chasing it around with the screwdriver on the earmuff stethoscope. jacked it up and hello Rodney knocking sound from the sump. Shut it off and drained the sparkly oil out all 6.5 litres, weird I only put 4.2 in there so I think an injector is stuffed and may have hydrauliced a cylinder. Mates coming round tomorrow to give me motorvation to pull the engine out and contemplate it's future. 1 21 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vk327 Posted November 9, 2023 Author Share Posted November 9, 2023 Well torn it all apart, alot of wear for a motor with 5000k on it glazed bores,ring gaps are all over the place some are +52 thou others around 30, bearings have all had shit go thru them no6 bore is trashed massive fuel contamination in the oil gonna be a new block needed now I think the noise was coming from crank slapping overfill sump from the fuel in the oil 1 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post vk327 Posted November 12, 2023 Author Popular Post Share Posted November 12, 2023 Came so close to dropping my turbo barra in this... but just picked up this somewhat ugly looking 3.3 should work for what I need only 120k on it, stripped it down, small mark in no5 but hopefully my 030 over pistons can clean up and bore to suit with new rings, crank looks good so should get away with a polish balance and re assemble On a side note can see why the factory piston used to break the skirts off 14 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post vk327 Posted November 26, 2023 Author Popular Post Share Posted November 26, 2023 Replacement block heading off to Marsh motorsport this week for machining and rotating assembly balancing, gone to a new clutch with a sprung plate to make it nicer on the street. Got distracted on a side quest, vk calais digital dash popped up on market place. Not cheap but so much 80s cool. Gonna set it up all running off ecu outputs maybe a canbus io module, so it will be fully functional including fuel used & distance to empty and can calibrate it so it reads right 23 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post vk327 Posted December 10, 2023 Author Popular Post Share Posted December 10, 2023 Real impressed at Marsh motorsports turn around at this time of year, only a week to have it all ready to go, bored, honed, decked, crank crack tested & polished, ring gaps and bearing clearances set and the rotating assembly all balanced Got the bottom end all assembled need to find my cam card to dial that back in. And cause I'm not busy enough already have decided to go full sequential and drive by wire throttle with a link xtreme so now onto new wiring loom build and setting up a custom cam sensor for sequential sync signal 15 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vk327 Posted February 7 Author Share Posted February 7 Been busy getting everything back together, got it all running again on the monsoon and run the cam in with new lifters after finding a cracked lifter face. Alot of work into building a custom cam pickup for sequential triggering built the new wiring loom for the xtreme and fitted it all up last week, made up mount for the LS coils, adaptor for the e-throttle and mount for the pedal. Off for dyno run in time and tune tomorrow 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post vk327 Posted February 7 Author Popular Post Share Posted February 7 More progress photos, also got the calais dash in and working and modified the dash switches to a series parallel resistor ladder for cruise control inputs 12 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post vk327 Posted February 8 Author Popular Post Share Posted February 8 Good day on the dyno engine run in went well few teething issues with the e throttle PID control making 190rwkw just under 9psi of boost, running a bit of water meth up top rapidly dropped the intake temps from 35degrees down to 24. Will dial in some more boost later once clutch has bedded in properly. Time to get a wof tomorrow and enjoy it. 24 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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