Sooooo
Found out why the rear end was all over the place at brands last time out.
Wheel bearing lol
So replaced both rear bearings with new items from blueprint.
New brake fluid, gulf RF1000. This is essentially a motul660 equivalent but I didn't fancy the motul, likes be different lol
Also new front and rear pads, opted to stay with the same setup for now. I know how this works and feels so I'll stick with it whilst the engine saga continues.
New dizzy cap, rotor and ignitor aswell, you may have noticed some of my track videos when I come off throttle the Rev needle will drop to zero until I pick up the throttle again. Not sure what this is about but for £42 I can rebuild the whole thing pretty much so hopefully that won't cause issues at the ring!
CL RC6 up front. Love these but they kill wheels and brake discs lol
And finally, not so many pictures because it'll get abit boring keep seeing the same pictures of me having an engine built etc lol
So here's the bottom end complete.
And in the car
So a speedy run down of the new engine
Block honed and cleaned
Crank polished, cleaned and balanced
Flywheel resurfaced/cleaned/balanced
New RPC stage 3 clutch balanced
Distributor rebuilt
Head cleaned up and brake cleaner shot through all galleries
Vtec solenoid stripped/cleaned and reassembled
New Morosso sump
Something I feel worth mentioning, when I took my oil pump out of its packaging(brand new from japservice parts) still sealed in its plastic. I found a lot of what looked like machining dust in the inlet port of the pump. Surely something like this should be spotless straight out the packaging!?!
Needless to say pump was stripped down,cleaned and relubed before going on my new block.
This bottom end is my best effort so far and with the added security of not reusing the old b16b head or either of my coolers I'm hoping/quietly confident that this is the end of this!
I've got till japfest to get the engine running/run in and the whole car prept for the show/track session so I'm a busy bee ATM lol
Hoping to have an "engine is running" update end of the day but anything can happen and get in the way