Sorry for the lax demeanor in the build but unfortunately the personal life took over for a bit but now I have a lot more time and funds to throw towards the build. Actually we are moving very close to being complete. Our main concern as of late is finalizing panel fitment, paint and starting to dive into the engine. The paint and panel fitment is being handled by yours truly. But for the engine duties we are relying on one of the best engine builders in the business in my opinion. There are very few things that Mitch @ EP Racing does not know about a VG. He has already began paving the way for the VG30DE, VG30DETT, as well VQ series motors into a place of unimaginable and previously unattempted HP ranges. Many of the top minds around the country trust in Mitch's engine building abilities. So we jumped on the bandwagon and headed up to meet Mitch at his secret shop location to go over the details for the powerplant behind Project LOWFATZ. Vice President, Mike Delashmutt accompanied me on the run up to EP Racing just south of Fort Worth, Texas. Mike had a build of his own going on, so we drug up his motor as well as few other bits for LOWFATZ. We arrived at the shop to find Mitch in his usual form... Mike and myself quickly went to town to begin breaking down Mike's VG for Mitch to inspect. Here I am tearing into Mike's motor. Mike looking on and imagining his block to become on of the many completed engine that are the artwork surrounding the shop. Some of said artwork. Anyone need a crank shaft? These are little different though. A work of art. Complete motors ready for customers. A set of race heads being ported for a Z31. A little shout out. A full Ferrea setup complete with titanium retainers ready for install. The man himself going to town on a fresh assembly. Assembled and ready for the head assembly in the "Clean Room". Entire head assembled in 10 minutes. Amazing. Me and mike shut our mouths for a few moments to go back to work on dis-assembly of Mike's engine. Watching Mitch work is like watching an artist paint, it's that level of concentration and assertion. My hat goes off to him as a true engine builder. Here is doing one of many assemblies he did that day. Note that this is the closest Mitch would let us get in the "clean room" (aka, assembly room), which is like a surgeons table might I add. As well as doing assemblies, EP Racing supplies their own custom line of heat treatments typical to that of Swain Coating. The only difference is, EP Racing does them at a substantially cheaper cost. Something we liked for Project LOWFATZ. Some examples of coatings that were going into customers other builds at this time. Coating for the piston skirts as well as the dome. A set of rods done up. Okay, okay....enough about EP Racing....what about LOWFATZ? Where is the update....well. We got around to dropping off our block sometime back and had an opportunity to check up on it. This is our block. Mitch took the opportunity to clean it up and prep it for us.This block will the basis for our build. Another shot of the block cleaned up. Also, we added a suprise to the build with addition of a EP Racing first. Mitch worked with Moroso to engineer the first 9 quart capacity oil pan. Which will also find it's way into our build. We will be adding on an external oil cooler which we estimate will kick us up over 10 quarts as a whole. Here are a few pics of that beast. The execution of the piece is awesome. Great job my Moroso as they truly earn their name on this one. While Mitch worked I tinkered a bit more with Greddy High Quart Diff Cover for LOWFATZ. Dis-assembling the cover. Deburring it inside and out. Ran it through a few runs of the blasting cabinet. Finished and ready for a EP Racing Specialty Heat Extractor Coating. First round of coating the inside and then off to have it set by a nice bake with a specialty oven. For right now, that is the first of many updates soon to come. Me and Mike would like to thank Mitch for allowing to come up and learn more about his process. We now have every confidence in him for his abilities to make our goal with our project. For now, we will leave the man to run his business. Thanks again, Mitch. Now get back to work.
Some fantastic looking engine rebuilds there mate...good to hear your back onto it...been missing the updates for this beast
Thanks, glad to see you guys are digging it still. I had an opportunity to spy on a few of Mitch's other builds and noticed a handful from Australia. Looks like he is shipping some out to you folks, apparently.
I've got your original thread on zxc bookmarked which I check from time to time. You havnt updated that in like a year ya cretin, I was wondering what happened to ya.
Is that crankshaft knife-edged? What is the benefit of knife edging in a Forced Induction build, I was under the impression that a little inertia weight on the crank isn't a bad thing.
Actually, that is for another build all together. I just thought the workmanship was noteworthy. But, I think we will be doing something a bit different for an high hp NA build.
