Heart Transplant

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Heart Transplant

July 15, 2011, 06:48:25 PM

The motor in my TC finally quit on me. I pulled it from a 164K mile donor, and after nearly ten years of my abuse, it all ended like this:

Leading the points in my class, and not wanting to miss too many events, I decided to grab a complete engine off CraigsList and use the whole bottom end vs. building one up right now.

As things typically go for my projects, I snowballed from there. Using my stock head plus a drop-in cam turned into finding a decent buy a ported head and adding a slightly bigger cam

I snagged a windage tray off ebay for $45 and added some baffles to the sump of the pan

I am also gonna give the new setup a Dupont overhaul, and change up the colors vs. the old motor

I am gonna work on gettin the head/cam setup this weekend, and hope to have the engine mostly assembled Sunday night. There will be a few tweaks needed once the engine is back in the car. SuperCoupe throttle body is gonna get added on, MAF swap is gonna get completed.
I have a date with the dyno for the last weekend in July, so its time to get stuff done.

RIP lil motor; you served me well

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Reply #1 – July 15, 2011, 10:54:59 PM

Carnage is always worth seeing!

Glad to hear the plan is to have it together in a couple weeks. W/MAF alone the power band would have been dramatically different. With the head, cam and fresher short block, you may have some oversteer issues again... great problem to have!

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Reply #2 – July 16, 2011, 07:58:06 AM

Before, the VAM and stock head were my limiting factors in power production. With those both out of the picture, my 46lb injectors are gonna be the next hurdle. However, there is also the issue of reliably turning that up/down thrust into rotational motion. I dont think this, or any other, stock shortblock would live very long at the power level potential after an injector upgrade.

Once this is up and running, and we find a comfortable level of operation, I hope it will live long enough for me to build a decent shortblock to put under these good parts. Oversteer be ed! :burnout:

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Reply #3 – July 16, 2011, 08:18:44 AM

Glad to see the progress.

Hope to see it back on the road soon!

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Reply #4 – July 17, 2011, 05:43:08 PM

Not much for progress today, mostly frustration. Trying to set up the geometry on this cam, looks like I am in need of some offset valve locks to move the retainers away from the followers. Not gonna find those on Sunday....

I did get my upper intake modded for the SC TB lastnight at least

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Reply #5 – July 17, 2011, 11:51:10 PM

Looks like it is coming together

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Reply #6 – July 22, 2011, 05:34:12 PM

Round2 for settin up the head is tonight!
Guy dropped the ball twice gettin me the offset valve locks I needed. I called a local machine shop and he said "eff offset locks, bring the head here and we will make sumthin work."
That was at 2:45p
They looked at the head, and my pile of extras, stacked some stuff together, and liked it. Ended up cuttin the seats for new valves with taller tips, and out the door in just over an hour!

Time to get stuff done...

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Reply #7 – July 23, 2011, 01:23:19 PM

Lunch break update:

New valves in fresh seats meant starting from square zero settin up the head. Got that all squared away last night.

Set the head on the block and torqued down last night before I called it quits. Got up this morning and shot some paint on it. It is now primed, timed, and lookin fine!

and a shot with the v/c on

A'ight, back to work!

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Reply #8 – July 23, 2011, 11:36:39 PM

Should be fired tomorrow

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Reply #9 – July 24, 2011, 12:08:15 PM

It lives, again.

That is all :hick:

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Reply #10 – July 24, 2011, 12:20:17 PM

Hey, that's slam'n out some work! Good to hear it's back.

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Reply #11 – July 24, 2011, 05:23:28 PM

That's great to hear!! Now.....how bout a video with some sound???

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Reply #12 – August 06, 2011, 12:03:05 AM

No vids yet, too busy workin on it.....

Went to the dyno last week and roughed out a tune. She drives amazingly well compared to the old VAM setup! However, on the way home from the dyno, I shredded a timing belt and my new cam and big valves make this an interference engine

Bent a valve.

Swapped a stock head on 4hrs from home thanks to good help from great friends, and made it back. Got a new valve this week, and slammed the new head back on it tonight along with a conversion to round tooth timing belt.

One test drive tonight, all seems well.

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Reply #13 – August 14, 2011, 06:57:02 PM

Quote from: 1BadBird;363952

how bout a video with some sound???

Here ya go

And here is a new shot of the engine bay

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Reply #14 – August 14, 2011, 07:48:29 PM

What did it dyno? come on man.