83 VH commy wagz

[DANNY8]

Nah haven't had it dyno'd yet. The last time we got PEAKN6 on the dyno was a few weeks ago and the guy said it's time to rebuild the motor coz one cylinder is lazy and it's gettin worn out....so we thought we'd clean up one of our spare motors, put it in PEAKN6 and take it to the Jamestown Show coz the guy we go to for our dyno runs is there doin the dyno shootout, so we're gonna enter it in the comp HAHA...not to win, just to see wat this motor pulls.

It was rebuilt a few years back, and it's got 40thou over pistons, alloy timing gears, and yeah it had all new rings and bearings. It had a few oil leaks tho so that's why we pulled it down. We replaced all the gaskets, cleaned the carbon off the top of the pistons, in the head chambers, then put it all back together with the new gaskets.

The paint we used was VHT engine stuff.....altho now that I think of it the exhaust will prolly peel it off coz the exhaust gets hotter. But that's ok coz they're just my spare EFI extractors, the ones we'll be using are in PEAKN6 so we might buy some exhaust paint and spray them ones up b4 the motor goes in.

We've given ourselves a week (pulled the spare motor out last Sunday) to clean up the spare motor, then change it over into PEAKN6, and while the motor is out of PEAKN6 we're gonna clean up the engine bay a bit b4 the new one goes in.

Monday morning we leave to go to Jamestown with a local car club, so we gotta have her runnin b4 then. If it doesn't run for some reason, we'll prolly take Mum's VX over so we can still be a spectator

 

[DANNY8]

Well it's nearly time to put the motor in. We've spent the last few hours cleaning up bits, painting them and chucking them on. We're bout to take the motor off the stand and sit it on the floor so we can bolt the flywheel and clutch on, then the tranny will go in, then we'll drop it in the engine bay, then call it a night. :thumbsup:

Hopefully shouldn't take no longer then an hour or so.

The extractors that were in PEAKN6 turned out to be cactus, the no1 pipe was split all around the bottom, only just holding on....so mine will be goin on. We've got it booked in to get the exhaust welded up 2morrow, so hopefully we can have it running b4 2morrow lunchtime :w00t:

 

[DANNY8]

Well we didn't end up getting the motor in 2night. It's all ready, trans bolted up and it's hanging from the block and tackle ready to drop in, just got a few things in the engine bay to clean up while the motor is out then it can go in. We decided to come up inside bout 1.30am so we can get a few hours sleep in and get up early to continue.

 

[PEAKN6]

well the motors in and running like a dog, but hey atleast its running :w00t:

it took a while to fire but then we realised we couldve put the dizzy in 180deg out so after lots of playin we turned the dizzy a bit and then it started to fire, so turned it a bit more and b4 ya know it she was running, like a dog but still running.

it was running heaps rough, rough enough that Danny pulled 2 leads off and it didnt make a difference. the leads werent the best so we changed em but still ran like a dog. i changed the plugs of the 2 cylinders that werent firing and it ran alot better, so soon we're gunna have another play and see if we can play with the timing a little and get it puring like a kitten.

the pics dont do the motor any justice, it doesnt look as good in the pics.

we need to get some brass fittings to replace the hoses that we blocked up
and im gunna paint the air filter too, we ran out of paint so ill get some more

 

[Dirbatua]

nice hopefully it runs good after a timing fix and possibly a re-tune.