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Cool pic!

Famous last words….

You really are a bloody creative bugger, nice work.

32kg is a truck load!!  Add that to your list Cav.

See just as she starts to look all purdy, you go make her butt ugly again, she must hate you!!

Would be interesting to do a “weight audit”.  Be nice to see what all the mechanicals weigh, I mean I guess you get to a point (maybe you are now) where theres not really anything much else to gain?

Just had a good read of this, never ceases to amaze me how much tech can be in something that on the face of it is so simple.

http://www.mahle-aftermarket.com/na/en/catalogs-and-literature/catalog-pdfs/engine-bearings/#cleviteenginebearingperformancecatalogeb

Might have to do some reading, I assume thats part of the reason the shells are handed as Upper and Lower?

Thanks, yea for sure it all part of the learning curve.  Yep Clevite, not sure about the 77 part, they are Clevite High performance, I left the selection of parts up to what Brenton wanted.

Given it got a cage and also awd, that’s bloody light.  Be fun to take it down the 1/4 one day, I imagine it would run a good number.

Still kicking myself IJ, its so obvious once I realised, cant believe I did it.  But agree, at least I found it before any harm was done.  And it certainly is not something I will ever do again!!

Some of us aren’t as in the know as you Obi Wan

These are the little things that make it a well sorted car, love this thing, amazing piece of kit Ian, seriously mate incredible piece of kit you have created.

Main rotating assembly finished!  Actually just a nice fun job.  So took my time, watched a cool video by Mahle on assembling the pistons and they showed a nice little tool they made to insert the circlips for the gudgeons, so made one up on the lathe, cool as, makes it a 2 second job.  Worked through, but then had a hiccup at the end which I wi…[Read more]

Main rotating assembly finished!  Actually just a nice fun job.  So took my time, watched a cool video by Mahle on assembling the pistons and they showed a nice little tool they made to insert the circlips for the gudgeons, so made one up on the lathe, cool as, makes it a 2 second job.  Worked through, but then had a hiccup at the end which I wi…[Read more]

Excellent mate, thanks for that.

Wow, now that’s a score, your building up a nice little parts inventory there buddy

Wow, now that’s a score, your building upa  nice little parts inventory there buddy

As above but then screw the plugs back in (dont need to be tight) just to keep it sealed and stop crud getting in.

Hi mate and welcome!!  Always great to see new members joining.  Definitely old school forums have their place, FB is good for instant feed back but forums you get to know the members and learn who knows what.  Have a look around there are some awesome VR/S builds on here, check out Cavs LSa VR, or IJ’s AWD Lexcan, then of course there is a li…[Read more]