gotovato
Greenie N00B Member
Cylinder head is all ready to go. Ports were vacuum tested for sealing. 0 leakage. That’s great.
Head was milled 0.004” I believe as there was a little low spot from where my head gasket blew out. I’m an idiot. Shouldn’t have kept driving. Whatever. I need to clay this motor anyways so no big. We should be OK. Cometic does offer thicker head gaskets but this affects squish which will kill power. I’ll see what my tuner wants. Guys overly specific. He doesn’t mess around
The ferrea valve train is super gangster. This shit is on another level of nice. The Supertech stuff was nice but this is even better. Retainers are thick and seem very durable which is what you want with titanium retainers. That have a limited service life unfortunately.
These are 90lbs beehives. Nothing crazy
removed in the spirit of competition
Other then the above, I’ve had a few things I’ve done.
Rigid collars installed in my front subframe. With my spherical control arm bushings this is basically a must. A lot of force will be sent through the subframe
Picked up a fucking set of full ass slicks. Non DOT. Real deal shit. These are Yokohama A005’s. Medium compound. Based on what I’ve read these are gonna be mental. They were $350cad(260usd) locally so I had to jump on the deal. They are older but we’re stored heated and damn they are still very soft. these will be for seat time ONLY. They will probably last me the season keeping my 200tw tires for competition use only
Here we have my 4 slicks, 1 set of used nankangs from 2023, and my set of hankook rs4’s. I have 4 more Nankang CRs 255/40/17 currently coming in. I need to order 4 more 225/45/17 for rears. That’ll be soonish
Also been collecting pieces for a complete front end overhaul.
Spoon extended ball joints. About as gangster as it gets. Directly from Japan. There are other brands that make “roll center correction ball joints” but they are snake oil. They add a spacer to the control arm side which does nothing. You need to actually extend the stud!!! Spoon knows this
I also have extended tie rods coming in to compliment the ball joints. Spherical control arm bushings going in as well as a set of 17x9.5 +18 RPF1’s for the front end. They’ll extend the track width a good bit up front and offer more sidewall support for my 255’s. Car should be stupid pointy for 2024. Exactly how I want it
Head was milled 0.004” I believe as there was a little low spot from where my head gasket blew out. I’m an idiot. Shouldn’t have kept driving. Whatever. I need to clay this motor anyways so no big. We should be OK. Cometic does offer thicker head gaskets but this affects squish which will kill power. I’ll see what my tuner wants. Guys overly specific. He doesn’t mess around
The ferrea valve train is super gangster. This shit is on another level of nice. The Supertech stuff was nice but this is even better. Retainers are thick and seem very durable which is what you want with titanium retainers. That have a limited service life unfortunately.
These are 90lbs beehives. Nothing crazy
removed in the spirit of competition
Other then the above, I’ve had a few things I’ve done.
Rigid collars installed in my front subframe. With my spherical control arm bushings this is basically a must. A lot of force will be sent through the subframe
Picked up a fucking set of full ass slicks. Non DOT. Real deal shit. These are Yokohama A005’s. Medium compound. Based on what I’ve read these are gonna be mental. They were $350cad(260usd) locally so I had to jump on the deal. They are older but we’re stored heated and damn they are still very soft. these will be for seat time ONLY. They will probably last me the season keeping my 200tw tires for competition use only
Here we have my 4 slicks, 1 set of used nankangs from 2023, and my set of hankook rs4’s. I have 4 more Nankang CRs 255/40/17 currently coming in. I need to order 4 more 225/45/17 for rears. That’ll be soonish
Also been collecting pieces for a complete front end overhaul.
Spoon extended ball joints. About as gangster as it gets. Directly from Japan. There are other brands that make “roll center correction ball joints” but they are snake oil. They add a spacer to the control arm side which does nothing. You need to actually extend the stud!!! Spoon knows this
I also have extended tie rods coming in to compliment the ball joints. Spherical control arm bushings going in as well as a set of 17x9.5 +18 RPF1’s for the front end. They’ll extend the track width a good bit up front and offer more sidewall support for my 255’s. Car should be stupid pointy for 2024. Exactly how I want it
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