Great SS-Four rebuild 2010-2011, Thanks Wolf... (VIDEO update April 22nd) Options

[malpaso]

What to say. The time has come to share in pictures with the great re-build . Works it self are not finished yet and exact due date is not known as well (since as always something unexpected can pop up anytime). Everything has started in August 2010 after my Alpine road trip (also some pics here). I really wanted to say to my car decent good bye (before I leave it thousand miles from home in Italy) for many months. As time and money comes and goes things has changed a bit from the beginning but that is not important. Important is that everything is on the best way it should be now. I will share more with pics than with words because I know everyone likes pictures more than reading ...

Primary target = rebuild the engine
In fact engine it self was not any bad. But it do not mean everything was mint with the car/engine (as can be seen in some pictures later).









Since my mechanic wolf_tm is super-precise person everything must be clean and perfect.





















Almost everything in the engine was replaced by performance parts or new OEM parts.





Of course also clutch was replaced by more durable one and flywheel was skimmed and balanced.





So engine done... almost (done means "closed" ). To be continued...

This post has been edited by malpaso: Apr 22, 2011 - 9:19 AM

[presure2]

EPIC!!
great work by you and your mechanic, martin, cant wait to see it all finished up!

[malpaso]

EPIC!!
great work by you and your mechanic, martin, cant wait to see it all finished up!

Thank you Manny. My role is more "money-box" or "manager" that mechanic... According to Wolf my knowledge of rebuilding the engine is joky .

...Out of curiousity, why are you running 5 MM less?

it is no purpose... it is just a consequence I have wanted narrow tires (since ST205 is like tank w/o a chance to spin as you remember ) to lower price (the are cheper because they are more common) and lower consumption (less rolling-resistance force). So no point to have 5mm less diametr of wheel. It is just consequense of using more narrow tire on the same size of wheel (215/50 R16 vs 205/50 R16).

Last news for today... here is one picture from mapping so...

IT IS ALIVE!!!

[SwissFerdi]

it is no purpose... it is just a consequence I have wanted narrow tires (since ST205 is like tank w/o a chance to spin as you remember ) to lower price (the are cheper because they are more common) and lower consumption (less rolling-resistance force). So no point to have 5mm less diametr of wheel. It is just consequense of using more narrow tire on the same size of wheel (215/50 R16 vs 205/50 R16).

Ah, makes sense.

Funny that you say that though, seeing as you were down on power before the rebuild...I bet you'll notice the difference now!

[malpaso]

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Funny that you say that though, seeing as you were down on power before the rebuild...I bet you'll notice the difference now!

My mechanic said the same thing .

It's good to know that the project is approaching its finish.

I hope the engine will run soon, so that I can see your car live

IT IS ALIVE means engine is already running (see vid on youtube)

In addition, And it may be different over there in Europe but here in New Zealand since Bridgestone dropped the GIII range in favour of Potenza, they no longer produced a 215/50R16 and the only tyre available in that size that I've found doesn't have a high enough load rating for the GT4 weight. Unfortunately this only leaves is with options 205/50/16, 215/55/16, 225/50/16 and 225/45/16 the only choice is to go up to a 17" wheel to get 215/45/17 which is a near perfect match in rolling diameter to the stock 215/50/16, but that also cripples us because its very difficult to find 5x100 wheels with the right offset to clear the gt4 brakes and clear the springs of the lowered suspension (the lower strut height increases the camber negativity as the pivot point cant change when theres no adjusting nut on the rear swingarm.) In my case I'm running 225/50ZR16 with 15mm spacers at the rear so the tyres dont rub the springs.

Wow... that is unbelievable. I would not be able to run on 17" (with Superstrut Suspension) on CZ roads at all. They are so horrible I would be like shake after few miles .