Jason

Thats the thing know one knows what sites are being banned. Welcome to communist Australia!

Its sad how little people care about civil liberties.

o.O

eh Me and couple of mates started watching it then I convinced every one to go see transformers instead, worth it :y:

Thats were tvis goes. Bin it imo. Thats a 7 rib, and thats not a gze intake, but thats ok there bad any way.

as above tvis = not gze. 3 rib = BIG not a gze Some one has strapped a charger to an old block. If you pull it down you will know.

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Nope the sight in my garage is a horror story, had a lot going on in life but I'm on hoildays soon so maybe i can get back into the swing of things.

luckly i only need a new head gasket. I cleaned all the crap and the seats and valves are fine. Not at home (where the car is) so no progress.

Why does it have to be online?

Well I think it happened when i was having fueling issues had the manifold throttle off so it was just a big hole to spray ez start down. Bolts and nuts where every where. Amazingly there are no detonation points. Next task is to take the valves out for a better inspection of the seats and go from there. I might not have any ceramic coating left on the piston but at least it has been work hardened now LOL :P

Valves are fine valve seats on the other hand.... the exhaust one look scuffed. Will take valves out and have a closer look tomorrow. Hopeing a pollish clean up will show i don't need a new head, I carnt afford one at the moment. If any one was wondering what it was, it is a rubber seated washer for the valve covers, managed to get sucked up in there when i was testing with the manifold wide open :) Weird thing is I never saw it when i was poking around through the spark plug hole.

she needs a new head on closer inspection. ted

TEDDY POSTING HERE ;) Results are as follows. lol. :)

Try to get a IC that has the intake/outlet on the same side to reduce piping.

Wow thats awesome! Would you have any before/after dyno sheets of your extractors for curiosities sake?

Ya. Ill reword saying the same thing :P Take exhaust out of the equation and you max VE will be your peak torque, therefore matching extractors where ever that may be. So you really setup your base torque/power curves by the intake and exhaust just tweaks it. So this is how I see it, say your best VE is at 4000rpm but you want torque at 2000rpm, by designing a exhaust to get more at 2000 will start to strangle the torque at 4000. You could say your distributing the power more evenly, Id say its wasting intake tuning. IMO the best exhaust would be four independent runners. You don't wont to disturb the momentum of each cylinder.

Just though Id say this its been on my mind for a bit. Instead of 'forcing' the motor to make power where ever you want. Why not match the exhaust VE to the intake VE? I'm not sure VE is right maybe flow efficiency or even better flow momentum. Say, you have your engine and it makes toruqe where ever with the exhaust off / or no joining headers. Then try to match a realist header system to where it makes the most torque? This is dyno territory but I thought it might be some food for thought.

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Bo rowing medicine_mans (thanks justin :P ) engine crane so ill soon find out whats going on.

I still maintain it is the most ugly car ever built.

Ill get pictures this afternoon, I wouldn't put engine failure that far away it is the first motor Ive built :jamie: By looking at the piston through the spark plug hole there is no damged to the surface, ive checked for any foreign bodys. Hopefully within the next two weeks i can get it back on an engine stand and see wtf is wrong. Detonation damage would be a relief but I somehow doubt it with how rich I'm running it at the moment.

I have done a dogie and spaced the spark plug, but I don't like it. All the clearances are right and yes it was plastic gauged. Yes the head has been shaved but its only in cylinder one. Its a 4agze (in title :) ) Ill get I photo of it when I get some time (dodgy and fixed the clearance back in motor :jamie: ) Crank along with everything else was checked before it was put together. How do I check if it is missalinged, ive check everything with a depth gaige and compared to cylinder 4 everything is identical. Ie, distance from piston to top of head and lenghth of thread. I'm so frustrated, why its so different. I'm temped to pull it down and rebuild the thing.