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So I've looked over everything and taken a couple measurements and bought myself a few christmas presents!!!

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I noticed a few decent groves in the main journals of the crank, so ordered ACL Rave series in the next size up for both the mains and conrods, they are 0.010" over which means I'll get the crank ground and we can make up our own clearances.

The bores weren't too bad looking at around 92.27mm at the worst spot, that's just over fords serviceable limit, so I ordered the next size up Pistons which were 0.004" oversize, so fark all... I ended up going with the mahle Pistons, apparently a lot better technology behind them, and they are quite abit lighter, they are slightly higher then standard comp but once I work out a cam combo and decide on a compression ratio I will just get the deck and head milled to create whatever I want... The standard Pistons were sitting about 0.045" down from the deck @TDC, so plenty of meat..

I got the Manly H beam Plus rods, with the 7/16 ARP2000 series bolts rated to 1100hp

Got the 12mm ARP head studs and ARP main studs..

Fabre do their own oil pump gears, so I thought I'd try them

And also got ARP bolts for the ring gear..

All up that cost just under $3200

I'll be getting the Spool girdle and Powerbond Race series balancer tomorrow

I also rang a few people asking about valves, Fererra only seem to make a 0.5mm oversize in&ex valve otherwise it's custom, does anyone know of any others off the shelf?

Joe

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I spent the afternoon with dad yesterday doing some more checks... I've always looked up to my father and I've always known him to be a wealth of knowledge, seeing him in action yesterday brought back childhood memories when he used to take me to his shop on Saturdays and school holidays and I would just watch him measure/check clearances assemble engines and flow test heads... He really is in a zone when he does it and I am grateful that I am learning off him... I realised I really couldn't be doing this without him..

Anyway, we just checked all the new rods, Pistons and bearings over, so put the bearings in the rods and torqued them up to spec using a stretch gauge, measured the pins, small end bushes and Pistons... Everything was pretty good, either perfect or under 0.0005" difference...

We worked out what clearances to run on the crank and what to get it ground to..

Some comparison pics

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Can't wait to SMASH MY DATE!!!

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Hey joe just a tip and iam sure your farther would agree but balance the parts, manifactured items have sometimes "loose" tolerance and a balancing procedure and sometimes some meat skimmed/massaged off the pistons/rods/crank can mean big gains later but its a technical procedure but soooo worth it especially if your going to spin this bad boy up past 7000rpm with a big turbo !

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Yea mate, the machinist is an old friend of dads, the motor will probably go back and forth a couple times... We're taking it there this week to get the crank ground and bores honed so we can dummy assemble it to work out how much to deck the block to get the comp where we want it, so it will go back then, and then once more for balancing before final assembly.. And the head will have to go there to cut the seats, possibly take some meat off it aswell...

What conrod jurnal bearing clearance have you run? Factory is 0.001-0.0015.. My worn bearings were 0.0027!! We're thinking of setting it at 0.002 so it has room to wear?

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Hey guys, unfortunately I can't use the mrs as an excuse haha..

I started my own business, I'm sure that you are all aware with how that works, so my money is all tied up in the business, I landed a decent contract (carpentry) so more money for the pit (car).. Just have to get through till March and I'll be in the clear and full steam ahead with the build...

But basically I'm trying to get a lot of the stuff done that isn't costing me anything for now, it's probably better because I will spend a lot more time on the development of the head... We all know data is key, so the old superflow110 will be getting a workout..

Thanks for the interest,

Joe

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