Finally got the engine back together and sitting in the engine bay Work done:- Pistons and rods balanced to 0.1gram Crank balanced Bores honed and new rings New bearings Heads ported and polished, got about 5% extra flow Jun Chrome molly flywheel New gaskets and seals This is my homemade flow test bench Also replaced the plastic timing chain guides Sorted out the oil pickup and sump. And heres the engine mounts Next to do is sort out the altenator, A/C pump and P/S pump
Freakin clean man! What pistons are you putting in there? Also can I ask where you got the tubing for the pickup? Hope to see you come on the cruises once it's done :br:
The pistons are the orginal ones The pick was made from the orig VH45de & 300ZX pickups plus bits of tubing from the infinity half cut
wow didnt think anyone bothered 2 rebuild a vh 45 before... did you go oversize pistons? please say your putting some forced induction on her
Do you have any measurments and piccys. I'm interested to know to see how you installed the alt, P/S pump and air con pump
Alt is in the normal position. No aircon or PS. No I don't have measurements of the rad. Should still be some piccies in my build thread. A lot got lost when photodump went down
Chrispy just de-powered his steering rack. Andy, which power steering pump did you get with your VH? IRS or Active suspension? The smaller one (IRS) should fit fine... I am ordering some IRS brackets from Nissan so I can fit my SR20DET pump... we'll see how that one goes... I had an eBay TT radiator with a 56mm thick core, left about 22mm clearance between it and the crank pulley (not enough room for any type of puller fans). Ditched that idea and now I'm using a FMIC as the radiator with dual 10" puller thermos, looking forward to seeing the temps with this setup
Depowered Z32. I think I will be putting PS back in. Use a standard Z32 rack and use a electric PS pump out of a Vectra/Astra or similar. Easier and smaller than the SW20 MR2 one. Not too fussed about aircon, doubt I'll keep the motor in the car long enough to care