Engine bay progress. I hit it hard today. Ran out of welding wire so i still need to weld a bit more. Currently grinding welds. Hopefully i can put some filler down tomorrow.

 

Got the bearings in. Painter is not here today so no test panel. All the tolerances were .0015 or less. Everything bolted up and piston rings clocked. I might order the oil pump on Monday. lower gasket set on the 7th.







Main 1



Main 2



Main 3



Main 4



Main 5

 

Rod 1

Rod 2

Rod 3

Rod 4


All lubed up and torqued down.


Compression bump money shots.

 

Im just going to reuse the oil pump. The clearances are still within sepc of a new pump.

 

Got the lower gasket set today. Got most of it done but ran out of time, i will finish tomorrow.

 

I am confident that im done welding. Tomorrow will be grinding like crazy.

 

Anyway to get back on topic. I got the head gasket kit in today. Going to take the head to the machine shop at lunch.

 

Laid down some filler today. Big milestone but goddamnit i hate sanding and body filler in general. This will be the worst part for me.

 

Got the head out of the shop this morning.

 

Just finished painting it black.

 

I'm not too worried about leaks as I have the opportunity to do everything right from the beginning. My last build only leaked after the head lifted and it was no problem to pinpoint on a pink block lol

 

Got a few more bits on the head. Hopefully the brake bulkhead fittings will be in tomorrow. One of the bodymen at the shop agreed to help me with the filler work. I offered to pay him to do it but he probably thought it was too much work. He put some small patches of filler down already.

My next purchase will be ARP headstuds followed by the timing belt kit(belt, tensioner, water pump).

 

Mounted the intake manifold. I had some stainless hardware at the shop so i used them for the intake and exhaust. Replacing the studs with bolts. Gor the bulkhead fittings in the mail. Drilled the holes in the firewall for them. Sprayed the wheel wells with undercoating.

 

Valve cover painted. Fittings installed.

 

A bit of good filler applied and sanded today.

 

Got my head studs today.

 

I got the fuel line tuck parts. Painted my brake master cylinder.

 

Going to paint tomorrow but here is the process...

 

Painted the fuel rail and brake booster.

 

Better pic of the rail in the sun.

 

I started on the engine harness.

 

Small update. Used the silicone bypass hose from my z6. Painted the fpr. Got some details worked out on my engine harness, its ready to have the connector soldered to it.

 

I made a diagram of my harness plug so i can keep track tomorrow of where i put certain wires and where i have to solder the corresponding wire on the other side since it will be mirrored this will help. I made it from an actual photo of the plug, messed with it in paint.net a bit.

 

Not much time today but a bit of progress on the harness. I need a larger size heat shrink. The stuff i have is too big or too small.

 

Almost done just a few more wires to solder.