A few more pictures.

My stock clutch after roughly 100K. Looks ready for more, but an ACT will be taking it's place.



What my garage looks like when it's time to " build another tool". All that to remove a pesky bolt



4 ft bar to bolt to the crank in the flywheel position, this provides counter-force for removing the crank bolt with a breaker bar and 3 ft pipe extension.



I got a few more of my outstanding required parts:
- Scored a brand new Tial wastegaste on Ebay for $150
- Oil lines, misc gaskets, and couplers from ExtremePSI. These guys have a really nice site for piecing together turbo kit parts. I got all the parts a-la-carte and ended up saving money over "complete kits". The hardest thing is making sure all the fasteners have the correct thread sizes for your specific turbo etc. Their site allows you to pick from a list for each end of the oil line and everything fit perfect



Some things I still need:
- flange and tubing to build wastegate dump tube.
- flanges and tubing to build O2 housing.
- ARP main bolts.
- hardware for turbo-to-manifold, wastegate-to-manifold, turbo-to-O2 housing
- figure out turbo cooling lines
- radiator hose (stupid sharp angle routing).
- fab lower IC pipe.

I'm also rounding up the tools required for the actual engine assembly. Things like bore gauges, dial indicators, feeler gauges etc. Being an engineer I have most of that at work to use. I'm going to go weight my pistons and rods today just for kicks and giggles, we have a high precision scale and the other engineer sitting next to me wants to see how good the parts are...

 

^Nice build.

Make sure that Tial wastegate you scored on eBay is a REAL Tial wastegate.
See here: http://www.tialsport.com/realvsfake.html

 

thats a fake tial

 

Well I guess I need to look into this. I didn't buy it from an ebay vendor or store, I got it from a private party. It came in a Honeywell box with a Honeywell bar code on the outside....hmmmm.

 

I just weighted my pistons and rods on a high precision digital scale here at work.

The Wiseco pistons were within .05 grams of the marked value on the bottom of the pistons (done in Sharpie by Wiseco) which is inline with scale-to-scale variance. And the pistons overall were within 0.60 grams of each other.

The Eagle rods with hardware were within 0.80 grams of each other.

Pretty good.

 

FWIW, my friend has the same ebay WG and it has been working flawlessly for a while now.

 

Jared, you might be able to find all of your hardware needs at Tacoma screw if you are ever down there, just a thought. Build looks like its going well. When did you get the wheels?

 

Tacoma Screw and I are good buddies, I just need to get down there. That's a pretty easy task so I'm procrastinating.

I got the wheels years ago, they have race tires on them that's why you haven't seen them. I started the tear down after a track day and never got around to taking them off.

 

I highly recommend extremepsi, cheapest I've seen and I get everything next day but I'm in CT

 

If you know what you need lmk and maybe i can go grab the stuff for you or something since i work down the street. If you pay ahead I can pick it up or whatever idk, just lmk if you need some help? Offer stands for anything, cause you are an alright guy...

 

I sent an email with pictures and serial numbers to Tial and the wastegate is legit, so that's cool.

 

I just ordered 1mm oversize valves, so it looks like my head will be semi-built.

I also grabbed some ARP mains, a flange for the wastegate dump tube, and the flanges to build the O2 housing.

I also talked with the machine shop yesterday and planned out the work. Bore, chamfer lower edge of the bores, deck, clearance for the 100mm crank. The head will be faced, lapped and given a value job for the 1mm OS valves and install some BC valve springs. The rotating assembly will be balanced including the flywheel and clutch. I should be able to drop off the stuff on Monday and have it back in about a week or so.

 

^noice!

 

Pulled the head off tonight. Things look as expected, black; with signs of oil seeping out the head gasket. The slow leak from the good ol' one-at-a-time ARP headstud install was really a BUNCH of small leaks.

 

Got recommended clearance for pistons from Wiseco.

If broken in at low boost then .0025 clearance is fine. If going straight to the track or getting 20 lbs of boost right away then .0035 piston to wall clearance is recommended.

.019 ring end gap for upper ring and .023 ring end gap for the lower ring.

Regards,
Wiseco Piston