Hey, I'm finally getting ready to assemble carstedts car finally, after months of issues, but their all getting sorted out finally, so here we go.

Right now, I'm still waiting for a couple parts, so I'm getting the block masked and ready for paint, once I get a nice day out, been too cold lately. but she's gonna be moving along fairly quick.























bot the block and the girdle put together and about ready for some paint and primer.



Diamond .020 over pistons with Teflon side, and ceramic top coats, should hold up pretty well, and stock rods for now.


and some nice neutral balance shafts

 

looks like fun, what was wrong with the 10-1 pistons that he had to order new ones?

 

had waves in the cylinders that couldn't get honed out, so he had to go .020 over pistons to keep them nice and tight, but he's still got 10-1, just a little bigger, and coated now

 

Keepin stock rods?

 

maybe,

 

Very sweet. Can't wait to see this car in action.

 

I hav 1 video of it on the previous build but its not very good but ill b back in the stayes soon and ill get sum videos

 

just asking y go 020 over?? the sleves in the ecotec engines r only. 060 thick to begin with..
should resleve it back to stock..i think anyways

 

it already had darton sleeves in it, and we only replaced the one that was messed up really bad, the other 3 had waves in it and when the machine shop was honing it out they were already over .010 and their was still waves in the sleeves, so we went .020 and the walls are perfect now.

 

oh ok dartons r alot thicker...ive been told the sleeves get real bad distortion. hmm
good luck
in for results.

 

they're silly

 

yeah, the machine shop did a really good job of checking everything out, everything is nice and square, so everything is looking good, the crank was 10 grams out of balance when they checked it, its now all within .5 a gram. so she should be nice and smooth

 

Looks like it should be solid. Even with stock rods you should have no worries up to 500whp or maybe a bit more if he decides to go turbo and push it at some point

 

No turbo for me, i did acquire spray though for when i take the meth kit off

 

all primered up, and ready for some color



a little satin black paint







unmask in the morning before work today, and I think she looks alot better now, I'll have more tomorrow I hope, need to get a engine stand and than I can start doing the good part

 

im gonna send you my engine so you can rebuild and paint it lol

 

Yay. I see that child still isn't bannned

 

lol, ok, just wait till I move back to wisconsin and don't have the headach of the army anymore and I bigger shop to work in

 

where did they get the torque plate to hone the cylinders

 

they had one at the machine shop

 

Looking good. I'd say this might be the most anticipated car to have back together on the site. Everyone is always is asking for his numbers and when it's finally back together they can see what a TVS LSJ can really do

 

cool cool...i have to make one cuz none of the shops have one around me.

 

Ya i always get asked numbers and videos haha but once im state side ill get sum for people and hopefully will go highest hp tvs w/o spray and if needed for numbers i can spray its for fun

 

the hell if you will spray it for fun, I'll kill you

 

My car, my money, my parts ur doing it this time cuz im overseas...ill spray it for fun on the dyno to see wut it throws down once its tuned for it