Well finally, it has been a long road. The sleeves added some time to the process and then the second machine shop took a while as well to balance, cage the bearings and he also didn't like the finish on the sleeves so he polished them up a bit.

Here are some shots I took some are with a phone so not great, you can click on the thumbnail for larger view. Hope to have everything in next week and broken in for Zfest in Orlando.

List of Parts:
Darton Midsleeves stock bore
Carrillo rods
Wiseco 8.8 CR Pistons
HKS Headgasket
ARP Main Studs and L19 Head studs
Jim Wolf C2 Cams
Jim Wolf Springs

Additional things going in:
Koyo 53mm Radiator
Sertrab Oil cooler
Nismo Power Steering Cooler
Evans Coolant
Additional Rear block cooling mod
Snow Performance Methanol injection

 

Looks like you are coming along real nice. I bet your anxious to see this running

 

Looking Good!

 

DARN! Everyone is building their motor Looking very good there. No heads work? Mine is in the process as well. I'm stilll on the fence about sleeving or not? Also why go with the 53mm radiator instead of the 36mm which doesn't require any modification?

 

great selection of parts, happy boosting with them !

what's the hose located where should be a cover in the middle of your block between the cylinders of right and left bank?

 

Look promising Gus.

I cant sign on to sfzcc???

 

Hopefully i'll be joining the ranks of built engines pretty soon. Lookin' good!

 

Where are you going to hook the cooling plate into the back of the motor?? T-fitting?

 

No heads at the time, way too much money spent so far. For the heads I just replaced all parts with new OEM parts except the springs which are JWT and had a 3 angle cut on the valves and resurfaced the mounting flange.

The 53mm doesn't require much to get it to fit, and just want to make sure the car runs cool as I plan on going back to the roadcourses.

 

Nice work Gus....I see you will be using the rear cylinder coolant bypass modifcation. Very good choice...especially with a sleeved block. You will find that the sleeved block will run about 10 degrees warmer at idle, vs. the open deck. But on the dyno and road, your coolant temps will be perfectly fine. The coolant bypass mods keeps the coolant temps from racing upward.

 

As mentioned it is a rear cooling mod. It is used on the pathfinder to help keep temps down.

Hope that also answers your question g356gear



Thanks, that is what I am shooting for, some may think all off the cooling mods are probably overkill but I want to go back to the track and tool around with the added power and keep temps down, plus the heat down here is a killer.

 

I remember the mod from awhile ago....for some reason it looked like a custom part that I thought you fabbed up just for your motor for a custom cooling bypass.

 

The build is looking great. Keep use informed on the progress.

 

WOW... looks so good

 

Well here are a few more pics, just click for a larger view.

 

Man almost there. Looking good love the blue on the covers.

 

well the long trip is close to being finished. I started her up today and purred like a kitten, I will close it up tomorrow and take some pics of the final product. Next will be some breakin miles before tuning.

 

What are you tunning with?

 

looking good man

 

Thats awesome news Gus.

Hey, I missed you a ZFEST. Someone said you were walking around, but we never got a chance to say hello to each other. Your display car looked great.