no need to run both the valve cover breather from zzp creates a vacum leak


how do you tell an engine wasent balanced from a visual inspection? you cant the only sighns is if it needed weight added to the crank and the lsj crank is pretty much spot on from the factory

the main reason why people have failures from piston swapping is from improper piston to wall clearances not balancing

balancing dident cause your problem

 

yeah, I'm kinda pissed about carstedt's car not being balanced out right when it was assembled, its just caused more problems cause someone either didn't want to do the work at the machine shop, or someone didn't want to pay to have it done, but right now, from the cause of it not being done. I've had carstedt's sleeve, pistons, oil pump, balencer hub, not sure if it was caused from being out of balence, but maybe cause they didn't check for proper clerence for the rocker arms to the valve springs. But yeah, all thats been replaced and fixed. all cause someone wanted to shortcut the build. so they saved a couple hundred bucks in the short run, but caused thousands of dollars in the end. but we should have a screamer in the end, well I'm hoping anyway. Might turn the key and blow the head off this thing, lol

 

Lol just realized how recent the slip was from, I guess I could have payed some more attention to see its your current setup

Pretty good times. Surprised your trap wasnt higher.

 

All and all I'm pretty happy being my first time out with the tvs. It's like learning to drive all over again haha.

 

Ok, I understand what your saying, but how can you say it his that wasn't the cause of the engine blowing, when you haven't seen everything that went wrong inside, it wasn't just the cylinder bores, it was pretty much everything in the lower end that got messed up.

 

i dont know why i didn't do this before but sub'd

 

what would you recommend for some sort of ventilstion?

 

Valve cover breather and block off the hole in the intake.

 

Just like cap it off? & then do what with the hose on the back of the vc?



Edit... You mean cap off intake, leave oil cap, & then a breather on the back of the vc?

 

i have jedi powers lol

run a -10 off the back of the valve cover thru a good (not ebay junk) air/oil seperator then to the air intake and plug the pcv port in the head

still creates a vaccum leak the system needs to be sealed

 

Alrighty thanks.
You ever get your car running 100%?

 

Looks great man

 

thanks! paint is done by my buddy back home brian.olsson while im deployed...cant have all go and no show lol

 

Oh I completely agree

 

Needs to paint the tb spacer orange!
& your pulley looks big? Aren't you on a 2.6?

 

nah i lik it polished..cant have to much orange lol..and yes its a 2.6 he may hav put the 2.8 on it in this picture though not sure...trying to find myself a 2.5 tho

 

should look nice all painted...got a cf hood/cf tijin trunk/tc rims (getting painted gunmetal)/deep purple calipers/purple strut bar/and purple front and rear sway bars as well and he painted my trans gunmetal to lol

 

Damn man that will look sick! You should paint the TVS too, I'm surprised so many people keep them the color they are

 

shoot.. polish it if anything!

 

eh he tlkd bout painting jus the lines on it orange but that would be alot of work lol..i dont wanna bug him to much he kinda jus sends me messages of **** he paints...the color of it is fine to me once the block gets painted and its all together itll look nice...we hid a bunch of sensors and wires last time so it really cleaned it up and we ran clear coolant hoses as well which was really cool...thers small parts painted and polised lik the engine mount and oil cooler and wut not...ill update with sum pictures as it comes along!

 

ebristol and I are the only ones allowed to have the polished ones

Nice man can't wait to see the engine bay once it all comes together

 

ya me neither..last time we pulled it when it was built he painted a couple pieces but this time hes goin wild with it..oh and the subframe to lol

 

It's actually the 3.2 on their for now, and their is really no need to.paint the TVs, its color works with everything else, and its powdercoated, I've thought about doing something with the lines, but I don't want to mess with the powdercoating

 

wher did i hav a 3.2 laying around? the stock pulley i thought i put in the box with my m62 lol