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What brand of polish? Meguir, mothers, turtle and what container or amount did you need?
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s14fiend wrote:I noticed you said the electro system is not good for aluminum. What did you use to clean the aluminum calipers?
For the calipers I cleaned them in soap and hot water first , then coated them in aircraft paint stripper and that took all the paint off, then ran it on the wire wheel along with an angle die grinder for the tight spots. That was it really I haven't gone and polished it but if I were to polish it id run a bunch of aluminum polish compounds on a felt wheel. If you you tube polishing aluminum there's tons of great videos for how to. Aluminum doesn't rust so no need to electrolysis aluminum parts.
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Great thanks man
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s14fiend wrote:Great thanks man
anytime :)
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Anyone have any suggestion for ring gap? Wiseco pistons 89.5mm bore. I got them gapped at 0.022 for bottom and 0.018 for top
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decided to go with 18 on top and 22 on the bottom, might gap it to 19 for the top but ill see!
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If I remember correctly the top on my je pistons is 19 and bottom is 21
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ya sounds like that's the range people are setting them at. The FSM has a pretty big range for the gap so better to gap em too much then too little!
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weird that the bottom ring was pre gapped at 22 because if you calculate through the sheet they provide you'll come up with numbers for street/high performance in the 0.019" range :S
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Issue with quality control from eBay. We ran into this issue with rings on my bro's b16. 3 top rings were off and 4 second rings were off. Bought a new set from a local supplier and we had to file away for all rings.
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supakat wrote:Issue with quality control from eBay. We ran into this issue with rings on my bro's b16. 3 top rings were off and 4 second rings were off. Bought a new set from a local supplier and we had to file away for all rings.
Thats a lot of filing lol. Luckily there not out of spec im going to run 19 and 22 should be good. Going to mic everything out if I get some time soon and get all the bearing clearnces perfect. Gonna spend a lot of time making sure everyhings perfect. Did any of you guys have excessive bearing crush / out of round on the main bearings? I need to make sure I dont need a line bore. Just spec everything out with a dial bore gauge and mic ? Ill rechexk evrything with plasti gauge clearance wise.
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So blocks back from the machine shop. Just to sum up what has been done : Bored over 0.020" and honed, hot tanked and magnafluxed, block decked with front timing cover, crankshaft polished, new freeze plugs and whole rotating assembly balance.

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pretty much where I finished off then had to go back to studying for midterms :(
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That is beautiful my friend, I'm sure you are excited and anxious to put it together its going to all come together great :)
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This is cool, keep it up :)
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Thanks guys :). So I got a small issue that I'm uncertain of and need some input. I plasti gauged the oil clearances just to see where there at approximately. Im going to spec everything out with a mic and dial bore pretty soon though. Anyways when I went to remove the plasti gauge from the main bearings I used a bit of carb cleaner on a rag and the coating that Clevite puts on the bearing just came right off. Considering how easily it came off I guess its not all that big a deal but when I go to measure everything out I feel that some that are coated and some that are not are going to throw off my measurements. Let me know what you guys think :) They all read out about 0.001in so I guess there a bit tight.
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actually just checked the fsm and it saying 0.0008" - 0.0018" is standard.
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lookin good bro! looks like ur on the money.
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Nothing exciting for awhile :( just a few random pics. Cash flow going to be nil till december break after exams. Going to be pulling the motor in a couple weeks though once mid terms are all over!

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you guys all torque your main studs to 60ft lbs?
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I've always gone by the book. Can't remember if 60lbs is spec off the top of my head.
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yeah from what i remember i think spec for factory studs is 40ftlbs and arp wants you to torque their studs to 60ftlbs
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signals13 wrote:http://www.jgsturbo.com/arptrq.html

Hope this helps.
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bad ass spray gun.................................check!

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Thats a nice gun out of my league lol.clean car and nice build you got going,when you plasti gauged the mains did you do the thrust bearing to make sure it was good cause clevites std main set has an oversized thrust bearing unless they changed them, I stopped using them a few years ago after my first set so I'm not up to date on them.
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Wow nice Devilbiss. I have a few of their older guns and they make excellent stuff. Good luck on the build.
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arob987 wrote:Thats a nice gun out of my league lol.clean car and nice build you got going,when you plasti gauged the mains did you do the thrust bearing to make sure it was good cause clevites std main set has an oversized thrust bearing unless they changed them, I stopped using them a few years ago after my first set so I'm not up to date on them.
yeah I actually havent checked the thrust bearing but thats some good info. Im getting a good set of starett mics and telescoping gauges for my bday so I'm going to be making sure everything is perfect down there! Seems like Im going to have to get different sized bearings though .. the clearances according to the plasti are tighter then I want.
Jmoore124 wrote:Wow nice Devilbiss. I have a few of their older guns and they make excellent stuff. Good luck on the build.
Thanks dude, yes I'm really impressed at the quality cant wait to put it to work :)
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S14wayz wrote:
arob987 wrote:Thats a nice gun out of my league lol.clean car and nice build you got going,when you plasti gauged the mains did you do the thrust bearing to make sure it was good cause clevites std main set has an oversized thrust bearing unless they changed them, I stopped using them a few years ago after my first set so I'm not up to date on them.
yeah I actually havent checked the thrust bearing but thats some good info. Im getting a good set of starett mics and telescoping gauges for my bday so I'm going to be making sure everything is perfect down there! Seems like Im going to have to get different sized bearings though .. the clearances according to the plasti are tighter then I want.
Jmoore124 wrote:Wow nice Devilbiss. I have a few of their older guns and they make excellent stuff. Good luck on the build.
Thanks dude, yes I'm really impressed at the quality cant wait to put it to work :)
Yea definatly check that I'm thinking it may be to tight if the others are already on the tight side,it would suck to lose a fresh built engine cause of it.
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arob987 wrote:
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arob987 wrote:Thats a nice gun out of my league lol.clean car and nice build you got going,when you plasti gauged the mains did you do the thrust bearing to make sure it was good cause clevites std main set has an oversized thrust bearing unless they changed them, I stopped using them a few years ago after my first set so I'm not up to date on them.
yeah I actually havent checked the thrust bearing but thats some good info. Im getting a good set of starett mics and telescoping gauges for my bday so I'm going to be making sure everything is perfect down there! Seems like Im going to have to get different sized bearings though .. the clearances according to the plasti are tighter then I want.
Jmoore124 wrote:Wow nice Devilbiss. I have a few of their older guns and they make excellent stuff. Good luck on the build.
Thanks dude, yes I'm really impressed at the quality cant wait to put it to work :)
Yea definatly check that I'm thinking it may be to tight if the others are already on the tight side,it would suck to lose a fresh built engine cause of it.
yeah dude I'm defiantly going to be putting in tons of work seeing as how much ill have invested in block/head.

Got the car in my makeshift garage and going to start picking it apart this weekend :)
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Last time ill see her all together. Got her all washed down and waxed and good to go.

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It ain't that pretty but for what it is should be pretty good, got some sick spotlights for free too and airline that I'm going to run from the compressor downstairs to outside! Going to start stripping things down this weekend.

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What do you plan on doing?
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