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Are those remote canisters from the suspension I see hung in the engine bay? What coilovers are on this car?
MCA suspension golds if memory serves me.
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Are those remote canisters from the suspension I see hung in the engine bay? What coilovers are on this car?
MCA suspension golds if memory serves me.
The one thing i cannot find on the web on the blocks is do you use sleeves because the design looks sleeveless,Bullet Race Engineering has some really neat stuff coming out of their shop. Once the block arrives, I'll do another video specifically catering to the new engine block. I'll try to get Rich from TEM involved in the video maybe so you get a machinist's impression as well. He's shy though
they do use sleevesThe one thing i cannot find on the web on the blocks is do you use sleeves because the design looks sleeveless,
Also how many passes or skims do you get because the surface has a lip and i assume thats a gauge to say how many time it can be skimmed
So they sleeve it for you from them or thats upto you?That is correct, sleeved cylinders. But something else unique is that block's deck. We have no coolant passages in the block/headgasket, but then look at the side photo, we are still water cooled. We're going to be doing a trick cylinder fire rings sealing system and rerouting water from the head to the block behind the head.
There is so much cool stuff with the block I can't wait to nerd out in front of a camera and share everything.
thoe heads are not for the guys with shy wallets! its a thing I would love to have also. very top spec and worth every penny im sure for the security of the head / lifters. what you got going so far is great and maybe its something o look into once you have more data or even if you run into issue as you may not have any at all.They sleeve it the first time for ya, and then you either bore it with your machinist or you could have them build the engine for you. They offer many in house services in addition to machining the block. The sleeves are replaceable and serviceable much like any sleeved block. Long as you don't window the block, you are good to go another round. Same with the fire rings. Since we aren't sealing the head and block via a head gasket, in theory we have a longer potential life expectancy by just replacing the copper fire rings, no decking required. The only thing passing through the block deck is oil.
I did reach out to SME. They didn't want to sponsor the car this year, and we already have a huge number of (expensive) projects on our plate as it is. ... Rich @TEMPerformance is going to work some magic on the OEM cast head though, porting, over-sizing valves, running solid lifters, and upgrading the valve train to support a 10500 red line. I think when we get a second year of the build going after some successful testing in our first, there will still be plenty more on the table to upgrade to, which is crazy to think about.
That said, if anyone wants to buy a sponsor spot on the car for 5k, I would not object to throwing the SME head in the mix this year! We'll take one for the 'team' and see if it's any good in an Eclipse (read: those heads are not cheap)