Pics of my 240SX monster build!
05-05-2007, 08:03 AM
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Originally Posted by hr2burn
WOW! I have never seen bearings like that...they always look kinda aluminum.
What's the deal wth the coating? So what's your guess on being back on the road?
Sean
What's the deal wth the coating? So what's your guess on being back on the road?
Sean
As for the pistons here is some info from Swain's site:
http://www.swaintech.com/store.asp?pid=10321
The piston coatings are as follows:
Domes (Gold Coat):
As the use of Nitrous, Turbo Chargers and Super Chargers have become common place; Swain Tech developed GoldCoat™ Ceramic Armor™ to protect piston tops in these demanding motors. GoldCoat™ offers the same benefits of TBC™, but adds an extra layer of extra high temperature ceramic to provide even more protection at higher temperatures. GoldCoat™ deals with the heat spikes and thermal shock of boosted motors better than any other piston coating.
Skirts (PC-9):
PC-9™ Solid Film Lubricant:
PC-9™ is Swain Tech’s latest generation of piston skirt coating. PC-9™ has the same low friction properties of Poly Moly™, but PC-9™ is even tougher.
PC-9™ is commonly used to salvage a motor that has excessive piston to wall clearance. Vintage motors and other applications with hard to find pistons can
have up to .004” of PC-9™ added to the diameter of a piston to tighten piston to
wall clearance.
07-18-2007, 08:22 AM
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Well it has been a long time since the last update. Things have been going much slower than I had hoped but I do have some updates. I got the block back from the machine shop about 2 weeks ago, and started into it. I checked all the machine work and it was spot on 
then I checked all my bearing tolerances and they were spot on finally I gapped my rings.
It was right about when I started putting the first piston in that I realized I was not happy with how smooth that was going. So....I called down to the shop I do some work at and talked to Dave Jones. Dave is a former head mechanic for a few Porsche Cup Car teams and for the Porsche program for 3R Racing. He has built countless race motors and I figured having him assy. the motor is worth the few cases of beer it will cost me.
Yesterday was a good day for the turbo setup too!
then I checked all my bearing tolerances and they were spot on finally I gapped my rings. It was right about when I started putting the first piston in that I realized I was not happy with how smooth that was going. So....I called down to the shop I do some work at and talked to Dave Jones. Dave is a former head mechanic for a few Porsche Cup Car teams and for the Porsche program for 3R Racing. He has built countless race motors and I figured having him assy. the motor is worth the few cases of beer it will cost me.
Yesterday was a good day for the turbo setup too!
08-27-2007, 05:22 PM
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Well it has been awile since my last update, but here is where we sit as of right now at 7:15 on Monday night. I had taken essentially a month off building this thing due to being really busy. I am now back at it and moving fast, I got the long block assy. this week and it is ready to drop in once I fix a spot in the engine bay that had developed a bit of rust and got promptly cut out.
08-28-2007, 07:49 PM
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Just a few more, mounted a few more things up so I can mock up oil lines and stuff like that.
Then after I drop it in, this is the first thing on my list......
Then after I drop it in, this is the first thing on my list......
08-28-2007, 08:15 PM
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We got a KA powered 240SX we just started to work on after over a year.You know Brian Crower makes a 2.65 L stroker kit for it..
PS who made the turbo manifold???
PS who made the turbo manifold???
08-28-2007, 08:26 PM
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Originally Posted by MRC Motorsports
We got a KA powered 240SX we just started to work on after over a year.You know Brian Crower makes a 2.65 L stroker kit for it..
PS who made the turbo manifold???
PS who made the turbo manifold???
http://www.tougefactory.com/shop/?sh...PassThrough=Y&
top notch for a KA-T
julian wanna throw me some free ka parts..............please