1 fast z Posted August 21, 2007 Author Share Posted August 21, 2007 Valve cover is a billet unit, VERY expensive piece of material!!!! I Should have pics of that in a couple days, I have to do some more programing on the CNC to finish it up. I will probably leave both valve covers with a Machined finished, as by me being a machinist, I LOVE that look. We are working VERY hard to have this car at the JCCS show in october, and we need about 2-3 weeks to work out any bugs in the system, nothing works perfect the first time on a engineerd project such as this. It will be driven 1000 miles round trip to the jccs show, so reliablity will be proven on that trip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boardkid280z Posted August 21, 2007 Share Posted August 21, 2007 Looks great! Any concern with hood clearance on the turbo's, or baking the paint off the hood with that much heat right underneath? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1 fast z Posted August 21, 2007 Author Share Posted August 21, 2007 Hood? Who needs a hood? No but in all seriousness, this was already mocked up in the car, look at previous pictures. There will be one bubble in the left of the fiberglass hood, for the forward turbo. The bubble will be 1" tall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nismopu Posted August 21, 2007 Share Posted August 21, 2007 CANT wait to hear it run! you must post videos! lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecase70 Posted August 22, 2007 Share Posted August 22, 2007 I second Nismopu!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daeron Posted August 22, 2007 Share Posted August 22, 2007 Valve cover is a billet unit, VERY expensive piece of material!!!! I Should have pics of that in a couple days, I have to do some more programing on the CNC to finish it up. I will probably leave both valve covers with a Machined finished, as by me being a machinist, I LOVE that look. We are working VERY hard to have this car at the JCCS show in october, and we need about 2-3 weeks to work out any bugs in the system, nothing works perfect the first time on a engineerd project such as this. It will be driven 1000 miles round trip to the jccs show, so reliablity will be proven on that trip. :mrgreen::mrgreen: I couldn't agree more.. the only reason I even mentioned a finish was, the only valve cover I had imagined was possibly an RB?? and I thought if so, that more similar color scheme to the RB valve cover might be in order but... the raw metal is much much nicer. I hadn't imagined a billet valve cover, but I guess I should have. Cant wait to see it, your designs are so functional that the beauty shows plain and true.. this motor should be mind boggling. Aluminum is in many ways the Mahogany of metals.....I think so anyhow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eec564 Posted August 23, 2007 Share Posted August 23, 2007 To see such a beautiful head on the block with the intake/exhaust/turbos puts any previous ideas of how good it would look to shame. Are you planning on sharing what duration and lift you're going to be running? ps - it's good to see a hood budge that's actually there for a good reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1 fast z Posted September 3, 2007 Author Share Posted September 3, 2007 So We finally got the engine finished up enough on the stand to get it ready to bolt in the fairlady. We got the head installed for good, cams degreed in, manifolds bolted up for good, CAS mount bolted on and fabricated, etc. Set cams at 110 deg lobe center. We went ahead and just through in a T5 trans for now, as I need to finish up some machine work on the z32 trans. So my friend andy and I installed the engine and trans today. This car has WORKING ac also! I do have to say I couldnt of done all of this without the help and engineering from my father. We together built this engine. So here is some pictures. BTW, the BOV is just sitting on the cold charge pipe. This valve cover is just basicly a dust cover on the engine right now, as I have not finished the real valve cover on the Matsuura. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecase70 Posted September 3, 2007 Share Posted September 3, 2007 yeehaw!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete84 Posted September 3, 2007 Share Posted September 3, 2007 Simply incredible! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony D Posted September 3, 2007 Share Posted September 3, 2007 Was this one a 3 hour start-to-finish engine swap operation as well? LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1 fast z Posted September 3, 2007 Author Share Posted September 3, 2007 haha, yea not quite tony. Although before was 2 hours fifty minutes, thats from when we pushed it in the shop, to when we drove it out of the shop, including, swaping the intake, head, headers, clutch flywheel, tranny to another short block! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators BRAAP Posted September 3, 2007 Administrators Share Posted September 3, 2007 Way to go Brian. Nice work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.INSANE Posted September 3, 2007 Share Posted September 3, 2007 You know what this means? Its that much closer to first firing up Great job love the billet I just love the entire engine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt K Posted September 4, 2007 Share Posted September 4, 2007 Damn! I want an engine just like that in my 280! Awesome job! I am astounded at the superb craftsmanship & dedication you've put into this project! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daeron Posted September 4, 2007 Share Posted September 4, 2007 I was making "tim allen" noises the whole time I scrolled through the photos. Superb. cannot WAIT to hear this demon, this "RB in L's Clothing" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S15 200sx owner Posted September 4, 2007 Share Posted September 4, 2007 Holy smoke! - This makes my RB twin cam head onto RB30 block swap look real easy! Good on ya mate for doing something different! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottyMIz Posted September 5, 2007 Share Posted September 5, 2007 Wow i was wondering if anything came from the posts about this earlier, i cheated and went rb Looks very nice and i too can't wait to hear how it sounds and see what kind of power it puts down. Speaking as a previous l28et owner i wouldn't go back after running the rb25det, the power difference and sound are so nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony D Posted September 6, 2007 Share Posted September 6, 2007 This makes my RB twin cam head onto RB30 block swap look real easy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnc Posted September 6, 2007 Share Posted September 6, 2007 Pretty impressive! Maybe setup a web cam when its time to fire it up for the first time so we can all watch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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