Enders swap, Update 11/29/19 |
Enders swap, Update 11/29/19 |
Aug 10, 2011 - 11:03 PM |
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I'm ready This post has been edited by enderswift: Nov 29, 2019 - 6:58 PM -------------------- |
Sep 17, 2011 - 10:20 PM |
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Enthusiast Joined Jul 12, '08 Currently Offline Reputation: 5 (100%) |
well, got some more work done today. The superstrut is completely out and on the pallet. I was surprised at how easy it was to drop everything, just a few bolts and the subframe lowered without problems. I took the time to measure the lock to lock rack travel and found it to be 4.75 inches. This means all I have to do to swap over to superstrut is find a set of rims with the right offset.
I'm not going to make it that easy on myself though, I have access to a sand blaster at school so I plan to strip all of the factory paint and coat everything with a layer of por 15. should be fun. Aside from pulling the superstrut, I also took off the valve cover to see how bad sludge is. here are the photos: I need to transfer over my st204 steering rack and this guy will be ready to bolt in. couple hundred pounds of gt4 goodness right there. Gotta love it. This is a terrible photo if you're talking about sludge, but I thought it looked cool. Anyway it looks like this engine wasn't maintained too regularly. Its not the worst I've seen, but I'm sure they stretched the oil change intervals. Another reason to rebuild this motor So this was the last thing I had to remove from my clip. I am officially done with that part of this project and can now focus on actually rebuilding the engine I plan to do the rebuild in two steps to keep myself from getting overwhelmed with scattered parts. Step one is going to consist of a complete rebuild of the head where I will do all of the measuring to decide what machining is required. I don't trust shops to tell me what is out of tolerance. Step two will see the bottom end rebuilt with oem bits and some arp goodness. This post has been edited by enderswift: Sep 10, 2014 - 7:17 AM -------------------- |
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