Mike O.

xr4tic - what's up with the motor?

xr4tic

In case you missed it, JE machined the pistons wrong, so they had to make me new ones.

The main thing holding me back is the timing belt/tensioner. Tomorrow I'll be hitting up some parts stores to see if I can find a longer belt. If not, then It's time to get creative with the tensioner mounting.

If I get that issue solved, I should have it up and running by Monday. If not, I can at least bolt the motor in and take care of all the other things (making a downpipe, making some brackets, etc)

Either way, I'll have a motor in the car for the first time in four months

Tron (///M)

Can't recall but didn't you have to rethink the oil paths in the block??

xr4tic

The block only had spots for 2 oil returns on each side. I ended up plugging the 3 oil returns on the exhaust side in the head.

I'll be keeping a close eye on the oil pressure once it's running.

markbradford

I know NOTHING about building a motor, so help me out here - did you have to enlarge the other two returns or sum'n?

xr4tic

there were 5 on the exhaust side, and two on the intake side.

Now there are two on each side.

markbradford

Gotcha. Did they need to be enlarged or anything?

Bryans12v

..since the block was designed to use only two oil returns on each side.

Mike O.

...which has much higher oiling needs with all of those valves. He "should" be OK with four, but will need to keep an eye on things to make sure the oil is not backing up in the head which would cause the pickup in the pan to go dry and....voila, not oil pressure in a very, very expensive motor.

I'm sure that John will keep an eye on things.

Mike O.

AEB_Head

CMH's car is currently being converted with the OEM block bored out to 2.0 well slightly larger than 2.0. but why did you decide to get a new block to use with the head???

what crank did you use?