He was semi-retired and then supposedly got hurt.

He had my block finished sooner, but wouldn't work on the valve cover until my block was finished. I have a hard time lying, but eventually told him my block was "finished." Which it was...kinda lol.

I paid for the work because I wasn't going to argue over $100.

But anywho, my car has been off the road almost 2 years now. But we're getting close to shortblock assembly. Yay!

2 years????????

You loose track of time when you have a nice DD.

Also, I put on a festival and that sucked up all of my free time and brain space. That's the last time I'll ever put on a festival again lol

I think my f150 is pretty damn nice...lol. Still doesn't beat hooning around in the Evo, My car has only been down for about 6 weeks and I've been itching pretty bad. So bad that I paid for a track day at the end of May that I'm only hoping I'll be able to make...lol

Any Updates?

Everything is ready for assembly. But since this ish took so long, Aby is building himself a 2.4. So, I have to wait until the master is done. I'll post some pics of the block and other stuff if I remember

Ok. We're weeks away from the beginning of assembly (Aby was putting together another engine for himself).

Here is what WPC looks like on 4G63 cylinder bores:




I can't leave well enough alone lol. Will also be doing the 02 housing and downpipe.






Didn't like raw aluminum on my lightweight pullies. Had Carlos at Tirado Custom Coating anodize them black:

all that stuff looks sweet

In case anyone is interested, I'm selling the sister set of 150mm rods to the set that is going in this car.

https://www.evolutionm.net/forums/sa...beam-rods.html

Woooo updates, Nice!

Great news! I cannot wait to see the end result..


P.S.

I finally got to testing my e-vacuum pump system in the car. Under driving conditions it pulls about 5 InHg @ idle and 1 InHg @ 22PSI boost (6500RPM). The gauge was installed on the Oil cap.

So might still be a good option for you, maybe.

I wish they were 153mm..



Do you have a link to this setup?

Hell i could show you

but here is the post.

https://www.evolutionm.net/forums/ev...l#post11613050

Oh. I thought I by e-vac you had an electric vacuum pump.

Well, vacuum in the crankcase is essentially free horsepower...although I am not going to add a vacuum pump to the car.

What I am going to do is the normal 10 AN off the valve cover and 6 for the PCV with the Radium cans. Then I'll see how the car runs and I'll eventually add the third can with the exhaust-vac system you so elegantly explained


Exhaust in this case