Just ordered my 6.8 litre block
Just ordered my 6.8 litre block
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Brummmie

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5,284 posts

251 months

Monday 10th March 2008
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The price was just sooooo tempting i had to have it smile

AlVal

1,891 posts

294 months

Monday 10th March 2008
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tell more!!!

TvrJohn

1,070 posts

285 months

Tuesday 11th March 2008
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LS7 ?

David Smith

716 posts

278 months

Tuesday 11th March 2008
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barking mad ...

Brummmie

Original Poster:

5,284 posts

251 months

Tuesday 11th March 2008
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No LS3 (6.2ltr), so slight overbore 10thou combined with my stroker crank= 6850ish, £450 for the block just had to have it, dammed shipping and taxes on top but, well you can see where i'm coming from!!! smile

eLSerbera

361 posts

227 months

Tuesday 11th March 2008
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So that will make two of us then...

I should be ordering the rotating assembly for mine this week.

Brummmie

Original Poster:

5,284 posts

251 months

Tuesday 11th March 2008
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eLSerbera said:
So that will make two of us then...

I should be ordering the rotating assembly for mine this week.
Nice, you will have to get a car next, and you will be flyin!!! smile

eLSerbera

361 posts

227 months

Tuesday 11th March 2008
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Brummmie said:
eLSerbera said:
So that will make two of us then...

I should be ordering the rotating assembly for mine this week.
Nice, you will have to get a car next, and you will be flyin!!! smile
I know! I know! I just can't make up my mind on what colour I am going to chooseconfusedbanghead

Have you made up your mind on what pistons you are going to get?

Brummmie

Original Poster:

5,284 posts

251 months

Tuesday 11th March 2008
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Looks like Mahle forged with 8cc reliefs, 11.8:1 compression. Subject to availability.

eLSerbera

361 posts

227 months

Tuesday 11th March 2008
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11.8:1 ... Yikes so only Super unleaded for you then...

I am going for -15cc dish for 11:1 with universal valve reliefs.

Wiseco seem to have the closest to what I am looking for but I am still going have to have them custom made.


Edited: you wouldn't know english is my first language...

Edited by eLSerbera on Tuesday 11th March 16:06

BCA

8,651 posts

287 months

Tuesday 11th March 2008
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Mad, excellent stuff.. thumbup

eLSerbera

361 posts

227 months

Tuesday 11th March 2008
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Just re-read yours Brummie - you are getting the block honed from the beginning?

So your engine will be a 417 and mine will be 416...

You know with the bigger bore you could get a set of ETP 4" bore LS7 heads - they would make you alittle more power than the Darts you have now well that is what I am aiming for in future, the options of having the bigger bore cloud9

Still the LS2 heads I have should be sufficient for at least the first year of fun...

BikealarmBlair

1,085 posts

238 months

Tuesday 11th March 2008
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So if I'm reading this right

Your heads are now wrong/too small

You exhaust is pants

& once you buy proper heads PatrickG's cam won't be right either ;-)

plasticman

908 posts

281 months

Wednesday 12th March 2008
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If you are after some good heads I have some spare C5r heads that I could be tempted to part with , David