A close-up of a Ross piston. The bottom looks like it just came from the shop. The black coloring on the skirt is Moly-Cote from Swain-Tech coatings. The gold-colored band just above the skirt is the Gold-Top coating, also from Swain-Tech. I need to see if you can get pistons recoated...if I can find out if the pistons will give me 11.0:1 CR as they are or if the were meant to be used with the DPR head. You'd think I already knew this, but no. I'm not that bright.
Saturday, April 16, 2005
A close-up of a Ross piston. The bottom looks like it just came from the shop. The black coloring on the skirt is Moly-Cote from Swain-Tech coatings. The gold-colored band just above the skirt is the Gold-Top coating, also from Swain-Tech. I need to see if you can get pistons recoated...if I can find out if the pistons will give me 11.0:1 CR as they are or if the were meant to be used with the DPR head. You'd think I already knew this, but no. I'm not that bright.
A combustion chamber from my DPR head. Notice how it was reshaped in more of a figure-eight (called a clover-leaf) pattern. This would have been great if they hadn't then screwed the whole head up. The valves are supposedly 1mm oversized: When I pull it apart I'll post them side-by-side for a comparison.
This assembly... the F, drivers suspension...is the bane of my existence. The driveshaft is so welded to the hub that I broke a big 2-jaw puller trying to get it off. The other end of the driveshaft is wedged in my tranny and refuses to budge, thats why the CV joint is destroyed:It gave out before the retaining ring on the shaft.
Friday, January 28, 2005
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Friday, December 31, 2004
It all starts here.
Well, not really. The blog starts here, but the project has been ongoing for the better part of a decade. I originally bought a stock '91 Mitsubishi Eclipse GS in 95 after my Mustang converted itself into an external combustion phenomenon. After blowing the stock tranny after some rough upper state
This is where the project took a decidedly nasty turn. For some reason, I convinced myself that an old-school V8 guy in
After taking the car to Buschur’s I was informed that so much material had been shaved off the bottom of the head that it was unusable. There was not enough material to allow the timing belt tensioner to adequately tighten the timing belt. Which was why my pretty 1mm stainless valves looked like pretzels. Crap. And, surprise, no one at DPR remembered me and all their files were shipped accidentally to the
This worked well for 6 months or so, till one day on the highway, my transmission made a horrible sound and refused to shift if I tried to use the clutch. I had to try to coast and slam-shift the tranny when I could keep the car rolling and use the starter to get the car moving from a stop. Talk about sucking. Of course I took my car to Buschur’s and they fixed it….no, not really as that would have meant I learned my lesson. I took it to another unknown shop in