Looks amazing Brian! Congratulations. Looks like you escaped the tiny garage too!

 

What are talking, 5 inch spacers?
good lawd

 

Only thing I don't like which might be a visual thing because it's all black, but it seems to end abruptly right by the fender line?

 

Ah... Wheel spacers..?

Surely you're joking...

 

Luckily I'm quite satisfied and actually very happy with it.

 

Easy, Brian, obviously the gentleman hasn't been around long enough to know the man, the myth, the legend.... hahahahahaha.

Lookin' good, brah! Can't wait for the "final photoshoot" (before it goes under the knife.... AGAIN. )

 

Lol..

Yeah Def not going under the knife again. I picked up a few new hobbies. Travel and backpacking. Priorities shifted.. Time to spend more time outdoors, especially w my father back in Alaska... Parents are getting old, time is precious 🤘

 

Amen, brutthuh, time is a commodity that ya can't ever get enough of! Enjoy yourself (and family time!). Alaska.... nice!

 

Got finished pics of the carbon doors that Harvey custom made specially for me over at Crown Carbon..
The full inner surface and door jambs etc are finished in carbon fiber for me 😎👌

Since the doors gets wrapped, I had to show off the carbon SOMEHOW lol.

Fkn cant wait 🤘

 

Also.. Swapping out the steel fdf lower arm kit in was JUST about to install for his new 7075 aluminum kit.. Stringed, lighter. A major plus.. These steelies I have here are heavy bois.



A few next day pics of the dirty car..

Taking it to wash tomorrow so I can start getting it ready for paint prep and wrap.

 

welp.... cant make this kinda sht up.

/ thread.

jk. But to those who already follow my social media accounts ..... you already know that my built, forged and finally "fixed" engine popped on the dyno yesterday.

We say popped ....because it was majorly down on power form last time ( 547whp down to 474whp), sprayed coolant out of the rad cap.. and is now makin a very scary rattle noise a bit off the deck idle, 1500-1800 rpms.
Head gasket? Rod bearings?
Quick fix or total rebuild?

Dont know yet as I'm leaving everything as is until i can get someone over to the house to listen briefly and give me a solid opinion before we start tearing down the engine ..yet again.

I had my emotional moment; disbelief.... then total " of course this would happen" belief.

Can i give up? lol.. no. I am way too far into this thing.

Can i afford this? Absolutely not .... and im really hoping its caught before anything is too bad to save.

If I have to rebuild, I will most likely part out the nearly brand new turbo and fuel system, and move over to an LS2 with ls# heads and call it a day for now.

My HP will drop in half, but it will be easy to build back up, and will be an engine that can afford me far less headache.
Id much rather keep what i have and fix it and be done however.

I am way past burnt out on wrenching right now, yet it looks like my hand is forced back into it, yet again.


So i will continue to finish the body , finish the carbon door swap, the wrap etc etc..

I will post pics as usual, but know that the car is going nowhere this summer after all.

 

If it's pissing coolant out the radiator and/or reservoir than you likely blew your head gasket pretty bad.

do a compression test to see where your losing compression (and coolant)…

Can you link a video of the engine running?

Likely a quick fix if it's just the heads … get the heads machined, new head gaskets, check the block for flatness and reinstall everything

unless you spun a bearing, in-which case time to part out...blown head and bearing issues = ruined weekend.

have you dropped the oil? any gold flakes?

 

Sorry Brian I 1/1,000,000th feel your pain going through my stroker build only to sell the parts, drop in an eBay motor and sell the Z.

I know you'll persevere.

 

Sorry to hear about your troubles brother.

Not going to lie though, it's good to see that this Z is still around.

 

Brian, dude, sorry to hear this turn of events. But looking at it with my usual humor to get through difficulties (and hope you take it as such as well), didn't I say something to the effect of "Finished?? Psh, I know you better than that."

But ya, not sure what I can offer but if you need anything, I'm sure the community's got yer back!

 

Sorry to hear, it sucks. I don't think it would be in the cards given what you said, but with as far as you have gone with the car would you consider running a GTR engine since you were planning to swap to a DCT anyway. That would be that ultimate build I think.

 

I've only been subscribed to this thread for maybe a month now (of course reading through every single post), but hearing this just hurt me as well. I was looking forward to seeing her finished, shined up, and getting dirty again from hot rubber slinging.
it's obvious you know what you want, but my opinion would be (if it's toast) to go 2jzgte swap instead of LS. I get some people like the shear raw power and potential of those LS's, but the JZ is really the same way if not more when it comes to potential.
But anyways, my condolences sir.

 

sorry to hear about the motor

 

Hot compression test was fine.. All ran to 150, one cycl ran to 153, all took the same crank time to build compression (8.5:1)
Drained water, looked fine. (only used distilled water and water wetter, easy to see contaminants)

Dropped the oil pulg and boom.. Glitter in the oil.

No chunks poured out, but something definitely died inside the bottom end.. So I'm sending the oil out to a lab ahead of time... See what kind of metals etc are in the oil.

The engine will need to be removed and broken down. At least this is a for sure at this point.

If I can just fix what I've got, that's what I will do.

 

Keeping my fingers crossed for you Brian.