no boost for me until the motor is broken in. wow going back to stock is no fun and it's only been 1 full day. g/f is excited to log some miles on the motor w/ me so we'll be road tripping it to a town near you. finally got all the parts and time to tear my motor down and put the forged internals in. was way under powered w/ the ported m62 and had low compression in 2 cylinders. figured might as well forge it.
goal #1-suspension
goal #2-supercharger
goal #3-built motor (I know not fully built, not sure the extra ~$2K for headwork is worth it for the s/c, see pics below)
goal #4-NWF
goal #5-???
want to send a big thanks to Ben for showing me how to build the motor. he did most of the work. also would like to thank Jake for helping put it back in, etc. Paul for letting me crash at his house one night and not making me breakfast. lastly, Ben's Dad for giving us the 4th opinion on timing and we actually checking the timing. than ks to all others that have unnamed honorable mentioning.
endplate example i need to have modified for dual pass
torn down and on the hoist. it's go time.
in the air intake side
in the air timing cover side, i'm pretty certain my s/c tensioner was leaking badly and caused all this mess
in the air exhaust side
was known for my clean engine bay around here, not after boost
really let it get the best of me, didn't want to keep fighting the filth if it kept coming back w/ out fixing it first
stock internals, not in bad shape, no scoring of the cylinder walls, no blown ringlands like i anticipated, no blown headgasket. not sure how i had low compression
was really lucky i didn't lose timing, broken key
honed the cylinders
really enjoyed the wiseco logo
eagle rods and wiseco pistons 10:1 stock bore, the rods were really impressive on how seamless they looked where they bolt together
drilling required?
what's this for? i'm supercharged
cleaned up the engine bay while Ben went to work
cleaned up the bottom of the head, forgot to get pics of the top and bottom of the block all cleaned up, wore a flat spot on my fingernails
almost ready to put back in
i'm loving the spec stage 2 clutch now, was using a free, used spec stage 3 for a year and it was bad
cleaned the intake ports
stock engine bay now, we were having troubles getting it started so we switched everything (crank position sensor, fuel rail, injectors, spark plugs, etc), found out it was the timing all along, no boost anyways so don't need the extra stuff right now
forged at 113,990
questions, concerns, comments expected. was a great learning process. wouldn't mind doing it again.
