I've decided to take the stock motor out of the car - the transmission needs to be rebuilt, and I need to cannibalize some parts from the 7-bolt 4G63 that's in the car now for my 4G64T build. Here's a couple of pictures before I started to work on it, sort of a "before" set. As you can see, it's a bone stock 4G63T. There's a K&N filter element and some Magnacores on it, but they don't...

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I took the head up to Jackson Auto Machine to have them work on it. Here's the breakdown:

NEW PARTS:

- 1mm oversize stainless steel exhaust and intake valves
- Solid bronze valve guides
- Titanium retainers
- Upgraded springs
- 3G 3mm big bore lifters
- HKS 272/272 cams
- Stainless exhaust studs

MACHINING:
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Well, it's been a while since my last update. DSMTuners had made it so you had to be a "Proven Member" to post blog entries, so I was locked out for a while. But I've managed to contribute to the community a bit, and get my blog posting status back. Yay me!

Since my last blog entry, I got the block back from Jackson Auto Machine, and it's beautiful. It's quite nice and clean....

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Here's a couple pictures of the JDM 4G63 GVR4 donor motor. I'm going to use just about the entire top end- intake manifold, throttle body, head, valve cover, etc. The motor came from a GVR4 automatic, and therefore has 450cc injectors and a 13G.

You might ask me why I went and bought a complete JDM 4G63. That's easy. I needed all the OEM parts necessary to make the dual runner manifold...

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Well, turns out that Jackson can't put oil squriters into the block. If you look at the block and the closeup, you'll see that there's a mount for the squirters in every cylinder except #4. If you're having a difficult time, look closely for the little tabs with holes in the block. Jackson says instead of putting the oilers in, they're gong to machine the rods to provide essentially the same effect....

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