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It's certainly been a long time coming....I've never had the money to be able to do something like this until now....and probably wont be able to again, so yeah..I'm loving it at the minute. Elliot

Got both heads fitted yesterday, all meticulously cleaned with 100% hydrocarbon cleaner. All torqued down to 60NM in about 12 steps with a new ARP head stud kit. Also managed to bolt down some of the head to head cast pieces, power steering pump and a pile of brackets. The plenum and inlet...

Ok...got all 8 pistons, rings and rods fitted up...... The rods have been chemically cleaned and polished and the machine shop has already pressed in new small end bearings and reamed them to suit the new piston pins. The piston pins are held in place with 4 spiroloks on each piston.....what a...

Just got off the phone to Ross in the US. Their technical guy said that 3 thou oversize would be fine and that if the car was going to be used for any kind of racing or fast road use that he would have done the same. I'm still not convinced...but that's mainly down to lack of experience with...

The pistons I ordered I got myself through Ross. They are standard 10 : 1 ratio. Diamater +0.5mm to suit a bore of 88mm. I'll call Ross to ask their advice, I am just not impressed that the machine shop took it apon themselves to decide what I wanted without consulting with me first...

Im just about to assemble the rings and pistons into my engine. The engine has been bored and honed to 88mm. The pistons and rings are all new Ross items. The paperwork that came with the pistons shows some calculations to work out the top and 2nd ring gaps. It states that the top gap...

Got a bit more done this morning. Its all going together in a weird order, I should be fitting the pistons and rods now, but I'm waiting on some tools I bought on ebay to make the job easier, so for now I've started on the front end. Fitted a brand new oil pump supplied by lextreme, nearly...

Got the crankshaft fitted today. Took quite a long time. Everything was cleaned, then cleaned and cleaned again till everything was spotless. New clevite half mains bearings were installed into the block, then the crankshaft carefully lowered into position. The mains caps had the other half...

Not sure where the bypass pipe hooks upto the other end...I'll tell you when I get that far...hehe. Got the engine bearings delivered today. Thought they were going to be federal mogal brand, but got clevite 77 instead....bit of a bonus as that was my first choice anyway. Just spent an hour...

Totally stock. They probably look thick because the top part of the sleeve has the locating shoulder. they will not have the same wall thickness all the way down. Elliot

Done a bit more today. I'm not trying to do too much at the moment, the engine bearings are still in the post so not too much I can do till they turn up. Anyhow, I bought some black brush on engine enamel and painted the valley with 2 coats. The starter motor I rebuilt is now bolted in place...

Agree with maxpower....chemtech blitz. Is available at 'autobahn' stores. You cant miss it on the shelf, its the one that you need dark glasses for, its flourescent pink. If you use it neat, and can submerge components, it will strip them of everything.....including cadmium plating...so be...

Cheers bud, much appreciated. Elliot

Oh...forgot to mention. When I removed the conrods, I labelled them with tape. Now theyve been down the machine shop, they've kindly removed the tape so I have no idea which one goes where. However, now theyve been cleaned up, I can see they have been stamped 1 to 8 on them back at the toyota...

I picked up the block and rotating assembly from the machine shop today. The block has been bored and honed to suit the new race forged pistons, the decks have been machined, the crank has been polished and balanced with the rods and pistons and flywheel. Rods have been reworked and new small...

Just wanted to know if anyone on here has actually fitted the shimless solid buckets from an MR2 into their 1UZ ?? Are they a straight swap without needing machining in any way ? What sizes are available ? Does anyone have a part # list of the different sizes ? Does anyone have any idea what...

Federal Mogal..read above.

Yes I did. Thanks to yourself. Got a set of Federal Mogal bearings on their way. I was going to source ACL bearings from Australia. I called ACL direct...they have the machine programs to make them, they have the part numbers...but get this....they've never run a batch or intend to ...

Yes, I'll be fitting new camtech cams. Not sure what profile yet. I'll search this forum and see whats been done and tested. Yes, it's for n/a. Elliot

Not much to update. Got all of the valves, uprated valve springs, collets and retainers assembled in one of the heads. Using nulon assembly lube on the stems. Found two of the inlet valves on the 2nd head had too much tide play in the guide than the rest so I've taken that head back to the...