The Purple Haze! *New Whip pg. 20*

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By BLaCkSiLo
- Tue Jul 14, 2009 2:30 pm #130283 i got some more pictures and updates! so here goes: :D

here i ported my oil pump:
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here is my new cam gear and my head all cleaned up and re-sealed :thumb:
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Just got the block back today....look at the beautiful hone job
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painted metallic silver or something, very good looking!
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cleaned up and re-sealed the damn intake manifold, it was so dirty and there was like 10 little rubber o-rings that i replaced, hopefully no vacuum leaks :eh:
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slowly putting shit back:
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lookie what i did last night :hehe: got all the pistons installed in the block, torqued the connecting rods to spec and she rotates. i'm tired as hell right now from staying up working on this bitch.
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today after work i will put the sump/pan, head on and some other stuff, gotta paint my valve cover and clean everything, get my alternator tested and so on. Also got 4 new brake rotors and 8 brake pads :woot: :woot:

man i dunno about this weekend
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By Mr. Pink
- Tue Jul 14, 2009 2:45 pm #130286 one thing i have wondered is how the hell do you port the oil pump?

Good progress btw
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By BLaCkSiLo
- Tue Jul 14, 2009 3:08 pm #130292
Mr. Pink wrote:one thing i have wondered is how the hell do you port the oil pump?

Good progress btw


so basically all you do to port the oil pump is round and radius the inlet(s) and outlet(s).

there is pretty much three of them that you enlarge and round out, the one when you take the cover off, it has a sharp ledge in there and unnecessary metal sticking straight up that somewhat hinders the flow...

the other 2 are where the sump hooks up, and where it passes oil to the oil filter. i just took a dremel tool with the sanding bit and spent some time enlarging the holes and kind of giving them a radius at the end. the z6's don't have as much as a problem as the y8's...those are terrible :lol:

thanks for all the comments guys, i got more stuff to post later on! :thumb:
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By BLaCkSiLo
- Tue Jul 14, 2009 6:44 pm #130334
egsedanguy wrote:did ya make sure to put the thrust washer on the crank???


yes i did, it was actually kinda funny cause my dad and I were putting the main bearings in and was like :eh: wtf goes there and then i remembered the old ones fell out :lol:
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By egsedanguy
- Tue Jul 14, 2009 6:51 pm #130337 lol ok cause. my block was apart when i got it. and i put it all together, well the bottom end, and realized i had a thrust washer still in my parts box. awwwwwwwww fuck, had to pull the pan and shit back off so i could slip in the washers. that would have been bad if i had forgot. :lol:
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By eg_turbo_hatch
- Wed Jul 15, 2009 1:20 am #130462 progress is looking good i look forward to seeing it in person next meet :thumb:
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By chrono404
- Wed Jul 15, 2009 1:51 am #130464
eg_turbo_hatch wrote:progress is looking good i look forward to seeing it in person next meet :thumb:

x2

This should be looking dope as hell. Cant wait to see it.
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By BLaCkSiLo
- Wed Jul 15, 2009 2:27 pm #130529 Hell yeah :thumb: i can't wait to see it either!

so i felt like i did a lot last night but maybe not, got the cylinder head on, tapped my oil pan and got my new water pump, new seals and etc etc...

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you can notice my oil drain return fitting in the oil pan :twisted: (for future upgrades of course)

more to come tonight! i will keep posted
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By Joplies
- Wed Jul 15, 2009 4:29 pm #130554 Its lookin pretty sick bro. Cant wait to see it when its done! Hopefully by 8/2....?
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By BLaCkSiLo
- Wed Jul 15, 2009 4:50 pm #130566
Joplies wrote:Its lookin pretty sick bro. Cant wait to see it when its done! Hopefully by 8/2....?


oh yeah man, definitely by 8/2, i actually hope to be driving it to the beach this weekend on friday :eh:

so by 8/2 i hope to have about 500 miles or so with the break-in, i dunno how i'm going to hold out not getting on it right away but meh... i gotta order some more parts anyway :woot:
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By BLaCkSiLo
- Mon Jul 20, 2009 4:37 pm #131698 well good news, i drove her to work today :woot: :woot: :thumb:

i got about 250 miles on it or so and so far all is good, the vacuum at idle is about 20inHg, so i'm thinking that the rings had a good seat and will continue just a lil bit more. i have been compression braking a ton.




:x :x :x i had a tranny mishap though, when i was putting it back together and re-sealing it i put the reverse idler gear in upside down so no reverse.... i pulled out the tranny, fixed and put back together in time to drive to the beach in the dark :eh:


pics to come tomorrow!
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By chrono404
- Tue Jul 21, 2009 4:49 am #131960 Congratz. I bet its almost unbearable to have to break everything in and not stomp on it.

It sucks having to rip your tranny back out and fix something when your car is all back together, especially after a long time of it being apart.
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