Recent content by Radke

By one of the good stems the wear area of the rocker seems extremely close to the edge of the stem. I'd say you need roller tipper rockers and perhaps the rocker geometry checked to ensure a more central valve stem contact

Fired up first hit after sitting for a couple months, no better feeling. Scratch that, before refitting the turbo I decided to make a new gasket for the rocker cover as they also were loose. Decided to run studs and nylock nuts. Loctited the studs in and fit the nuts. Then decided instead of...

Got halfway done and had the bright idea to pull the manifolds and fit EGTs into them. Well that turned into the biggest nightmare. One nut on the crossover seized and then striped but wouldnt come off. Of course the turbo side. So decided to remove the dump, which can't be fully removed...

Drove it for a while like this and then found my leads were suffering from heat so decided to make some proper shielded ones. Ordered a v8 diy kit from jegs and some fibreglass boots and reflective covering. Decided to go under the manifold on the turbo side.

Made two brackets onto one, since I changed the oil filler I flipped the throttle body and found the clutch reservoir touches the throttle cable bracket so i joined them

Welded on the charcoal canister barb and breather line to the turbo intake, oh and the bov return

After attempting to fix it I decided to go all out and put a nice filler neck on it. Decided on an idea and ran with it. Learnt to Tig weld, and on aluminium.

So i got sick of the exhaust heat and decided to fibre wrap my already ceramic coated manifolds. I don't think the ceramic coating I got really helps much, or it does and it would be insane without it haha. It is very rich so i put some of the problem down to that too. Drove it for a bit...

Ok I've been lazy lately, also very hard to update of previous things I've done haha. Got the airbox pretty well done. A mate at work build a 3d printer so decided to make a bracket that holds the catch can and bolts to the airbox. Turned out well

A rotating assembly for one of these is only 1650? :o In aus I paid 5k for mine for an l36 :( damn small market over here

That's the underneath, had it up on the hoist at work, now has a flex just after the cat however Also started making an airbox out of a truck cab spoiler

The clutch let go at about 3500rpm, contamination on the clutch. It made around 300rwhp. I couldn't be bothered repairing the clutch so i got a twin plate rated to around 500rwkw fitted. Sadly haven't had it tuned again since as I'm lazy and it's barely been used

I then got it on the dyno after chucking a shorter set of pushrods in it. It quietened the lifter noise a bit. 4.2 idle shorter pushrods: 20130810 154341:

So i shoved the motor back in and connected it all. I also decided to put decent injectors in it. 1000cc bosch This was back in 2013, as a rough idea haha