Yeah!!, After a month my car is finally home from Extreme Motorsports(Built Engine)

[GSX4LIFE]

Its back, Its back. I went down and picked it up today. just got back about half hour ago. When I got there, Sean still had the dirt from my car on his hands(does that, uh, like mean my car is blessed now) Fully built long block w/ Eagle, Venolia combo, Balance shafts removed. 20 over slugs, and 10 under crank. The head was fitted w/ ss swirl polished valves, bronze guides, double springs, and Ti retainers. They are activated via, HKS 264 cams. And the boost is held in by ARP head studs. The engine is now fully broken in, and tomarrow I can start having fun. The guys at Extreme were great. Sean is a real nice guy, and took the time to give me the info on the internals and specs. He was een able to locate which car my ngine came from, a 97 that did not suffer from crankwalk. ven with no boost on I95, it still felt that it was pulling incredably hard. I broke it in per Seans instructions. He told me on the way home to go from 3000-5000rpms and let it coast back down to 3000rpms, and repeat 50-60 times. He told me to have fun with it after that. (The initial break in foe the lifters and cams was performed by Sean before I got there) The AGP L2R will be on Thursday, and I will update this thread.

 

[fast_talon]

Sweet!! Cant wait to see your car at the meet next month. You will have to take me for a spin.

 

[Kingdom]

whats the compression?

street pistons or race pistons?

 

[GSX4LIFE]

Street pistons. Ya-know, Im not sure what the compression ratio is. But it did not feel at all "low" or "laggy" coming home. I dont know. Mahbe its just the cams, but it def. feels faster than before, even running no boost.(I mean when your not running very high boost, like 5-10psi. Thats the most I was running coming home.)

 

[CBgst]

OK now I'm drooling. MAn that's awesome good luck with your car. Maybe oneday I can get that done to mine.

 

[Violater101]

You must have a nice job I can't afford to have a shop work on my car. Good Luck with you setup. What kind of boost do you plan on daily driving with your new turbo from AGP? Do u have any pics of the engine bay and of your car? Time to go lay the smacketh downeth!

 

[larryd]

congrats man.. i cant wait to get mine back

 

[NDgsx]

How much do the pistons weight in grams?

 

[tjh-dsm]

Just curious, why didn't you source 1g engine for your rebuild and instead used a 97 engine from a 2g? Seems to me if you were gonna shell out $$ for a rebuild, you'd want to rebuild a motor that is much less prone to the dreaded crankwalk than a 2g engine.

And I know you said it didn't suffer form crankwalk, but all the engines that have ever gotten crankwalk at one time or another 'didn't suffer from crankwalk' before they developed CW.

 

[GSX4LIFE]

For the work that was done, it would have been more expensive to go with a 6 bolt conversion(thats what you meant, right? not just a 1g 7bolt.) And I understand your point. But the engines that do not develop or show any signs of walking, are much less likely to ever develop it. My origional engine at 70,000 miles had no signs of crankwalk. So it is more likely nto to ever have a prob with walking, if it is ever rebuilt for someone else. That was the case with this engine. Hey if it gets it, oh well. Then Ill go with a 6bolt. Until it happens Im not gonna worry about it and have fun. Aside from the possibility of walking, this engine is now strong enough for 700hp, 9000rpms, and 9sec 1/4 miles. So Im pretty happy.

 

[Tallen]

whats the estimate on the HP right now?

 

[GSX4LIFE]

Hard to say. But with the L2R, on pump gas, at 20psi im hoping for at least 400-430whp. And more on race gas. Maybe a bit more boost, I can get to the "over" 450whp range.

 

[DSMu4ia]

How much did you pay for all that work at Extreme?

I'd hate to know the figure, but figured I'd ask just for shits and giggles.

Extreme = Extremely Expensive

 

[Tallen]

wow