Quote: Originally Posted by MBHSV5 [View Post] looks great. how are the sleeves held in the cylinder head? pressed in or welded or something? Its works on the same principal as sleeveing a alloy block. The head is drilled with a special drill bit to within .004 of a thou, Then the head is then put in a hot tank to heat it up so the hole expands and the sleeves are put in liquid nitrogen to shrink them, a special paste is applied like liquid metal and the sleeves come straight out of the nitrogen and put in the holes, as the head and sleeves come back to normal room temp the sleeves expand and the head shrinks to make it an even tighter fit. The reason they do this is to even out the clamp load on the head and so the studs dont bite down into the alloy giving you a fulse clamp load read out on ur torque wrench when tightning the nuts. ---------- Post added 09-04-12 at 16:32 ---------- Quote: Originally Posted by 88 Chaser [View Post] Nice, very nice. What water pump are you using? Also, what water pump are people using? Is there something better than a genuine replacement? Are people having trouble with them? Ive only had one let got, and I dont have temp problems, just askin. Not that I know about. Im just using a standard one Jase! If your standard pump handles 9000+ RPM, max RPM mine will see is 8500, should be fine. Hope so anyway lol.

Haha, well yeah it hasnt had a problem, I was just throwing it out there for some insight on what others are doing. How long till its back in the car?

Quote: Originally Posted by 88 Chaser [View Post] Haha, well yeah it hasnt had a problem, I was just throwing it out there for some insight on what others are doing. How long till its back in the car? Im off to Central Coast in NSW on the 23rd back on the 7th of May so im hoping the engine is ready by the time i get back.

any updates???

Waiting on pics to come thru from Engine builder, but he said it should be finished by the end of this week. but im thinking more like middle of next week. Im going to call past there tomorrow night so I will have some more pics.

just a quick question mate did any work have to be done to the suspension or tubs or just the shortened diff?

Quote: Originally Posted by HYE-GHM [View Post] just a quick question mate did any work have to be done to the suspension or tubs or just the shortened diff? I had to slightly modifiy the lower control arms and thats it.

So what size wheel and tyre can you fit now?

Quote: Originally Posted by TUXEDO [View Post] So what size wheel and tyre can you fit now? All I wanted was to be able to fit a 26x10.5, You can fit it under with out shortning the diff but its a tight fit. So the car has a 8"rim with a 26x10.5 MT, could probley fit a slightly bigger tyre but havent tried.

A few updates guys n girls, I had the battery tray remove and a few little things touched up around the bay and then painted again. BEFORE AFTER NEW ADJUSTABLE CAM GEAR DONE BY JASON GHILLER. If you are interested in buying one of these please PM me and I will organise these for you. Jason has a few in stock and he is asking $200. The engine isnt to far away now! Here is a few pics of where its up too. Some original photos have not been recovered yet.

Starting to look pretty serious mate

Yeah, that engine is porn can't wait to see it in the bay with bolt-ons!

looking good mate cant wait to see it running again

Some new bling for the VL. Polished P/S bottle, Brake master cap & mount braket & strut top covers! Some original photos have not been recovered yet.

/\ thats nice, who made them if you dont mind me asking?

Lowe fabrications I'm guessing

Quote: Originally Posted by YUW-83N [View Post] /\ thats nice, who made them if you dont mind me asking? Lowe Fabrications made the strut tops, B/M cap cover and B/M braket, the P/S bottle cover I got from Autobarn.

just looked on the website, there is some pretty trick stuff on there! how long does it take to have made?

Quote: Originally Posted by 86SLVLT just looked on the website, there is some pretty trick stuff on there! how long does it take to have made? I'm pretty sure he would have a fair bit of stock man. I bought a couple of bits and pieces from his stand at c4c last year, great products

Quote: Originally Posted by 86SLVLT [View Post] just looked on the website, there is some pretty trick stuff on there! how long does it take to have made? You will have to call him. Im not sure.