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Hey CP brains trust, so came across these.  Supposedly  worthwhile replacement for the regular plastic oil way barbell.  Peoples thoughts, worth it or a bit of wank??  I literally just fitted a new OE one, but its one the engine stand so no probs to swap over now, but peoples thoughts?

Stihl, hands down imo

Exhausts are a really such a personal preference.  Might be worth trying to find a mates or whatever you like the sound of and go that way?

Chain saw porn???

Well that’s pretty much a wrap until the heads arrive.  Swapped over the cam gear bolts for ARP, checked, double checked then triple checked everything.

Rear housing is on, spent some time and took the sharp edge off the rear oil gallery where the barbell goes, so the O ring feel better about life when it gets installed.

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That should move some air!!!

Internally what’s going to be done?

Not needed on the ls. They make more then enough pressure.

Not needed on and ls. They make more then enough pressure.

That turbo looks huge!!

I did consider that, but as you quite rightly say, especially with the priority main on the LSx oiling isn’t an issue.  That’s a must on a Holden V8 thought I believe?

Yea I thought the same thing, they are $8.15 so bit of a no brainer, but cant imagine them giving any trouble.  Yea mate the world will know when it fires up    

Got a couple of hours in yesterday.  Upgraded the timing chain set up, so had to remove the old lower sprocket, there’s not a lot of room behind but it needs a deep puller due to the amount of the crank sticking out.  My long puller has very chunky claws so took a little while on my bench grinder to modify it but then came off nicely.  I think I…[Read more]

Sweet mate, beautiful condition

Washers are your friend    Basically sold wrong injectors, washed the bores, didn’t bed rings in properly, leading to excessive blow by, rebuild required.  Its not all bad though, it is an opportunity to make more HP

Well that was fun, Brenton came up and we dialed in the cam, he went through and explained all the steps, like anything there is a bit in it, easy I guess if you know what you are doing.  And its spot on perfect.  He also went over everything I had done and gave it the tick of approval.  Also he dropped off the lifters which look beautiful.  Hea…[Read more]

Got a nice day off today, awesome  weather here, so got stuck into the valley cover, came up a treat.  Happy with that

Got a nice day off today, awesome  weather her, so got stuck into the valley cover, came up a treat.  Happy with that

Good stuff, good luck with it.  Yea I had to sell one of my kidneys to pay for my PWR radiator set up but its beautiful piece of work.  Actually I had to sell my first born child to pay to get it through engineering, but thats another story

^that could do with a nice Build Ninja 3D printed gauge plate so they were angled towards the drive a little

I actually just have a single SPAL fan on mine with no shroud and zero over heating issues.  It is on a  custom PWR rad though.