[QUOTE=sleepR;575816]Nice photos dude. Looks like it's all coming together quickly! :thumbsup:

At least one of us (should) be sorted by Collie... :(

Brent.
:)[/QUOTE]

Sometimes you are so high on drugs, i have to chuckle

[QUOTE=jEstEr?;575717]This has occurred to me, but the added cost of gaskets + head studs x2 versus just building the stroker from the start ... ? time spent tuning blah blah.[/QUOTE]

Depends on your budget bs timeframe etc. Only has to be as expensive as you make it. If you are not keeping this motor long term, why put in a head stud kit? Stock head gaskets and re-use old head bolts perhaps? Not ideal but gets it going. Food for thought anyway.

I ripped the old studs out and didn't take note where they came from, I would have preferred to put them back in the same spots. I dunno, its very tempting to have the thing running next week, but I also don't want to be spending money twice. The difference is I have no real time frame in place for getting this running.

Grabbed a spare set of EJ257B W25 casting heads from Sam (MeanRS) last week to compare to my heads. They are 08+ STI dual AVCS heads so I was interested to see what the ports were like and if the cams would fit.

Compared to my Z20 EJ20Y heads. My ports look a little bit bigger and when I had them side by side, the castings were actually quite different.

[img]http://img827.imageshack.us/img827/3189/p1020068z.png[/img]

popped a cam out and it physically fits in my head. Another interesting find was that the EJ257B cam is hollow but the EJ20Y cam was solid

[img]http://img197.imageshack.us/img197/2008/p1020062.png[/img]


Move forward to this week, one of the things that has always annoyed me was that I purchased a dished OMP wheel but the bosskit was too big, and the wheel either sat too close to my chest when the pedals were in the right spot, or if i moved the seat back to get the wheel in the right spot the pedals were too far away. I grabbed an NRG short boss kit from the ebayz and it came in yesterday.

My OMP wheel and boss kit compared to a MY98 Nardi. Not a completely accurate comparison on the curved roof of the car, but you get the idea.
[img]http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/2660/p1020079z.png[/img]

Bolted on the NRG short boss. Hrmm.

[img]http://img560.imageshack.us/img560/8317/p1020080z.png[/img]

I think I might look at getting a space made up to bring it forward a bit more.


Oh and everything is just sort of balanced in place here, but I think you might enjoy this little bit of automotive porn. Because racecar.

[img]http://img713.imageshack.us/img713/2658/p1020081z.png[/img]

Yes I know I have the coolest keyring in the world

I want one! ^^

Good choice in wheel :)

[QUOTE=teejay;578603]Good choice in wheel :)[/QUOTE]

I've had it for years?

So it makes it a good choice years ago ?

I hadnt seen it till meow

ROGER.
But yes. You should see 'winterburgers wheel. mine is hard-gay in comparison

Good stuff Maffew!! Glad to see it's still coming along!! :)