sean's cheap thrills, 90 1.6 with subaru td04
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<p>Solution:</p><p>Use LGT to tow miata to track.</p><p>Swap in VF40 in the morning before track day.</p><p>Swap back after track day, tow home.</p><p>Something like this:</p><p>Boatkill! The Muscle Truck-to-Boat Extreme LS Engine Swap! - Roadkill Ep. 36 - YouTube</p>
Cant be any more work than pads right? just use welding gloves, dont even need to let it cool down.
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<p>If you haven't watched roadkill, you haven't lived.</p><p>I need to bring welding gloves next time i swap pads at the track. Did that at thunderhill and it sucked. Some nice burns.</p><p>Woudln't even take long with the vbands you have.</p>
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It took literally 30 minutes to take the entire exhaust, turbo, and mani off. High mount has its perks.
The subaru on the other hand.... well, its not that bad, but not 30 minutes.
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So i could just saw it off each track day and weld it back on before I pack up.
Whats your choice of trubo for that motor without getting exotic? VF52? I just turned 100k on it. Not sure if I can swing an upgrade or if ill just rebearing the vf40 here soon.
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<p>When you do the engine build will you please take a million pictures and how you do everything? I'm still researching my build, and I also want to rebuild my truck engine this winter, and the inside of an engine is foreign to me.</p>
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Your not going to want to follow mine. Mike and I are taking next tuesday or wednesday off, were going to start at 6am and have it done and running by the afternoon, thats the plan anyway, a quickie if you will. We arnt touching the head because it has already been gone through, the PtW is what it is, Ill set ring gap obviously. Unless there is something egregious on the journals, theyre not getting turned down or polished, so bearing clearance if anything will be a little on the large side with 150k on the crank. Not a terrible thing. No ridge in the bore, but ill throw a snap gauge at it just to make sure they arnt taper ovaled. Ill check crank end play because its easy and important. There are decent writes ups somewhere I would urge you to follow.
Ive found enough people that have those ebay rods that had the big end checked for roundness and diameter and they were all in spec. Enough to make me comfortable.
But Im always a pic *****, so there will be pics.
Ive found enough people that have those ebay rods that had the big end checked for roundness and diameter and they were all in spec. Enough to make me comfortable.
But Im always a pic *****, so there will be pics.