Congratulations Chris!!!

 

Nice Cass congrats

How are you routing the oil return lines now?

If you got pictures that would be great

 

Congrats man.

 

graff kid, thanks for the info. I'll try leaving the trans in this time to save trouble.

Cass, with a built low compression engine you will see less vac under idle. Mine only idles high 13/ low 14mmhg when i'm at idle. It has been checked multiple times for leaks and nothing found.

 

thats great news! good luck with the tune

 

Thanks guys!! The smoke test revealed 6-8 very small leaks in various spots, nothing huge, they were all fixed.

There is some definate valvetrain noise upon startup, but the oil pressure is good and comes up immediately. Possibly cam clearences need to be adjusted. It goes away when warm for the most part, but is still somewhat noisier than previous motors always have to have some drama

Glex - I took a few pics for you and will get them posted up hopefully later tonight.

I just got the car home. 70 mile trip and oil temps were between 150*-180*F cruising and up to 200*F in stop and go traffic on the highway. The AFRs are way off right now, so no boosting till I sort out when/who is tuning. I am still running the ViPEC though.

 

all my engines have been noisy up top. I never thought much about it.

 

Depending on what items you have in your head, yeah they get can loud. My built civic sounded like a spray can with marbles rattling around when starting it up.

My Trailblazer with the stock inline 6 4.2 also sounds like *** when cold.

 

Congrats man, remind me what block did you go with and who did the assembly?

This is awesome Im truly happy for you. I hope you have a minimal drama spring & summer

 

Sent you a PM.

The block was from a used DE that was said to be in fine running condition... it was an oil burner, but was suitable for use as a core.

 

Congrats Chris. Im stoked for you man.

 

Thanks Robbie... you still have the sweetest looking car in the Mid-A IMO.

For Glex:

Drivers side: Pass side:

Just drilled and tapped the upper pan just below the windage tray and bought a solid piece to cover the the drivers side hole in the oil pan and a fitting that had the correct size/thread for the Defi oil temp sensor to go in the passenger side of the oil pan (you can see this in the second pic).

 

Let me know if you run into the smoking on deceleration.

Does it have enough downward angle for it to be gravity returned?

 

Will do. Yes, they have enough angle to be gravity fed and they should flow at least as well as the regular kit setup. Plus, these hoses shouldn't swell like the stock hoses did.

 

Soon there will be another option for APS owners to fix this. Im testing a set now.

 

I have a buddy that has the same set up with his JWT TT kit and he dosent smoke at all he ran it for 2-3 years like that.


Good to hear you are running again, my built engine was fairly noisy as well with C2s JWT springs they had the clearances checked at least twice now!!! The only upside to multiple engines each time I do something I missed the last time or change/check things I didn't like.

 

thats the truth!

 

Congrats man. I saw you all working on the car the other day. Glad its running again.

 

The tentative diagnosis is that I have a bad timing chain tensioner on the passenger side. Not valve lash related.

Got the new ViPEC firmware update today and made some decent power. It drives smoother than ever, tuner said something about it being in closed loop mode until one of three triggers change it to open loop during acceleration... most of this is lost on me.

Still need to get the oil cooler installed, but oil temps never got over 220*F while on the dyno. I will be running Brad Penn 10W30 right now and see how it holds up as it gets warmer outside. It came highly recommended by several places and used to be known as Kendall GT Race Oil before Kendall got bought out by a larger company and changed the formula.

http://www.bradpennracing.com/Produc...SAE-10W30.aspx

 

let me know when you come back down this way so we can meet up