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Thanks Yo She should. She felt great till the cam went so I would think it will be even better this time around with the little upgrades I'm doing as well

So will this car be back on the road this summer??

Oh yes. It will be at Carlise for sure, but I want it up and running by Spring. We'll see how that goes though.

What do you think? I feel they could be reused....



Juan insisted we get a picture. Now the head has new valves. No damage to the combustion chamber or the guides. Yay!

Now to finish the other projects

aren't those what they look like brand new??

Um... there's something ever so slightly wrong with that picture, can't quite put my finger on it though.

Oh, the one on the right looks cleaner, that's what it is!

It's good to know that the car can go into re-assembly mode soon. I just need to get the wiring harness finished, the polishing job on the manifold done, and get the rest of the boxes of parts in

did you break a timing belt to manage that?

sullivan wrote:did you break a timing belt to manage that?

Danteneon wrote:Good news, bad news, good (ish) news update....

The good news is that on tear-down of the timing belt system, the new tensioner I installed did not fail, and it was adjusted properly.

The bad news is that the alignment dowel on the cam is no longer attached to the cam...sheared right off Since the most common reason for that to happen is because the cam sprocket bolt wasn't tightened all the way, I can only blame myself. I could swear I did tighten it to spec, but I was rushing a bit at the end of the job

the alignment dowel broke and the valves and pistons occupied the same space and obviously they didnt get along, thats why they are called interference motors

i missed that post lol... ah yeah i jost got a free 2.0l motor because of a timing belt snapping ... i think ima play with building a 2.2l

EDIT: and i love how there all bent on the exact same angle!

Progress...I haz it!

It looks like an engine again!



A good idea of how clean the right side of the engine compartment will be.





Ummm...don't look at the left side yet...



But improvements have been made there too. They are just harder to see right now.

Stay tuned!

damn dats a lot of wiring

looks good man
nice paint job on the valve cover also

Danteneon wrote:

Bootiful vaalv kovur: U haz it.

Thanks guys The valve cover is very prettyful. I can't wait to get the rest of it together...should look quite nice!

And yes, the wiring looks bad, but once you break it down it really is quite easy to work with.

I've waited long enough! That IM better be polished to perfection!

I SO need to friggin play the hide the wires game. All my relay harnesses and HID wiring, grounding kits, electronics, etc...are everywheres!!

In other news.....looking good!

LilSparkPlug wrote:I SO need to friggin play the hide the wires game.

I'll lend you my "wire" to practice with!

that was set up too easy.

Danteneon wrote:Thanks guys The valve cover is very prettyful. I can't wait to get the rest of it together...should look quite nice!

And yes, the wiring looks bad, but once you break it down it really is quite easy to work with.

Yea the wires look fine till John goes up to them with cutters and cuts and cuts and then goes well where does this one go. LOL but he assures me that he knows whats hes doing.

It's been a while, but I have been trying to keep busy.

I'll start by saying that the intake isn't perfect. I would love to spend some more time with it to make it just the way I want it, but even I am impatient! I also want to thank Juan for his help with the sanding of the lower intake and the "added" part (more on that in a bit). Without his help this would take even longer than it has!

So here is the top mocked on the engine.





Some detail shots. My camera doesn't really do it justice.







The other thing Juan and I have been working on...





I couldn't bring myself to put the engine mount plate back on without some work. Since the covers are long gone and there are no pesky A/C or P/S lines to worry about, the plate looked pretty ugly. Not so now!

Some shots of where parts were cut off.







It's actually starting to look like a running car again! Yay!

About damn time this got updated! Where ya been?

So much BLUE....so much SHINY

Awe....some

TheRandom1 wrote:About damn time this got updated! Where ya been?

Not here, that's for sure So much drama going on right now that precludes me from being on as much as I would like

JeffM wrote: So much BLUE....so much SHINY

Awe....some

Thank you sir Once the rest of the bits are installed it should look a bit more balanced.

That sucks man... but glad you're here now and damn that stuff looks great!

Thanks! I am really liking the fact that there is real progress now.

I miss being on here like I used to. I guess that will make Carlise even better

OH MY!!!
Damn that manifold is beautiful, I really like the way it turned out. Took ya long enough lol
But it was worth the wait, great job! Wanna do mine?

did u put any kind of coating on the intake manifold or did u just sand it real smooth and buff it.

sxxxt wrote:did u put any kind of coating on the intake manifold or did u just sand it real smooth and buff it.

Looks excellent! Was gonna ask the same thing. Can you get things powder coated with a clear coating?? Otherwise won't all the hard work be in vain if you don't polish it frequently?

LionheartedSXT wrote: OH MY!!!
Damn that manifold is beautiful, I really like the way it turned out. Took ya long enough lol
But it was worth the wait, great job! Wanna do mine?

Yes it is, thank you very much, yes it did, I think so, thanks again, no way in hell!!!!



The manifold is "simply" sanded and polished. No coating on there other than Mothers Mag and Aluminum Polish. I do want to get it powder coated clear, but I would have to some more work to it first. It still isn't perfect IMO, and once it's PC'ed, that's it.

Since it's sanded smooth now it isn't all that bad to touch up the polish every now and again to keep it looking beautiful

looking good man!!!! missed u on the forum.

glad that you are back on