My Supercharged Monaro build

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one head down, one to go

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I cracked the bolt fully and removed the pulley in the garage

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Cam is out, just need to work on the rest of the short block

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stick100 said:

What piston/rods/crank did you go for?

Looking into callies compstar rods and wiseco pistons but still need to order them

Plan to place the order in the next few days

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jameshsv said:

Gsd2000 what you doing about traction.especialy with all that power

For the drag strip I plan to switch to 15" drag radials with skinnies up front

On the street for now I will use decent road tyres with the long term plan to mini tub and roll the arches to fit some 10" wide wheels with 285-295 tyres

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i will look into a pre balanced rotating assembly

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Block is booked in for machining

Internals are ordered

I just need to finalise a few fuel bits and then keep working on it

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mikeyb1987 said:

gsd2000 said:

Block is booked in for machining

Internals are ordered

I just need to finalise a few fuel bits and then keep working on it

What rods/rod bolts have you gone for G?

ARP everything

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So i thought that i should post an update

I decided to wrap my manifolds using DEI titanium wrap

Before



During



After



I had a knock on the front door and all this arrived







Inspecting the Callies Compstar rods



Ive also made a start on the base tune and should have that ready very soon

The plan is to drop the block off on Tuesday and i should if i keep pushing and chipping away have the car on the road for the V8UK Power Tour which is around the 24th May

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Block secured and dropped off at Knight Engine Services for machining

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alfienoakes said:

That piston is pure art

Those manifolds look the same as mine how much wrap did you need to do them ?

i believe i ordered a 100ft roll.

That was just enough but my manifolds have 1 5/8th primaries so if you have bigger primaries i would order more

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KMud said:

Get on with it Gurmeet!

I've got some tools that you might find useful if you want a borrow. Push-rod length checker, valve-spring tool (the heads installed kind), and a thing for aligning the timing cover...all unused since stick did the dirty for me.

timing cover tool would be handy, i have the others

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i collect the block on the 2nd May for reassembly, and at the same time hopefully drop off my rotating assembly because a few bearings were missed from my order

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IXLR8 said:

gsd2000 said:

I decided to wrap my manifolds using DEI titanium wrap

After

Did you think about using Zircotec??
Did you use the Silicone spray they say to use with the DEI Titanium wrap??

Your doing a mighty fine job there mate keep those updates flowing

i am going to spray some DEI silicone spray on them just to be safe

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I thought that i'd update this





I collected the rotating assembly.

I had the block bored, honed, crank polished, keyway added to the crankshaft, heads skimmed, rotating assembly balanced

Now mounted on the stand, just finishing the prep for paint



If everything goes to plan, the engine should be built by early afternoon on Friday

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KMud said:

Going to make it to Santa Pod in it?

If you haven't received the tool from me yet assume it's lost in the post!

Thw target is to have it at PVS.

I have the tool thank you

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I took the prop to be repaired and dave mac propshafts couldn't find the bearing on the European system.