Re: A little Update on life.
[Re: Mike Lane]
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January 15, 2015 04:40 am UTC
January 15, 2015 04:40 am UTC
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Mike Lane
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Assembling pistons Torquing the ARP mains As it sits at home. Still need to assemble the outside bits, powder coat/paint. I am very greatful to gord bush for allowing my friend to leave my engine sprawled out across shelving for 2 years, and for all the help him and his team gave us with assembly information. He did an amazing job on the machining. I am also very thankful for my friend Myles, who made this all possible by co-oping at gord bush performance, helping me pay for the block work, and tearing my engine apart and cleaning it up for me. Rough Engine tally: Engine: 200 Parts: 1600 Head machining: 200 Block machining: 350 (paid courtesy of myles!) Total: 2350 (2000 out of pocket a few years ago) Yesterdays memories of assembling my own engine at a performance machine shop: EPIC!!
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Re: A little Update on life.
[Re: Mike Lane]
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January 15, 2015 04:10 pm UTC
January 15, 2015 04:10 pm UTC
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Bryan Lawrence
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Mike I don't think I can express how jealous I am. I would love to do exactly what you did and be a part of it. This is what an engine build should look like. When I do mine I will definitely be cleaning up the casting like you did here. Look beautiful.
Also what Jeremy said, and a lot of high horsepower guys on here have said multiple times. Stick to the stock crank, to get one that's worth it you are looking at about what you paid already.
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Re: A little Update on life.
[Re: Mike Lane]
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January 15, 2015 07:37 pm UTC
January 15, 2015 07:37 pm UTC
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Thanks guys. I hear you I am pretty happy with it the way it is.I put a fair amount of research into that parts list back in the day! Cams will probably happen after I try it out the way it is. They are easy enough to do now that I know my way around most of the car. Gord thought it was fine the way it is for a 500HP reliable build. We all know it will do plenty more than that with a good tune/meth. I need a better balance shaft delete, he told me why I shouldn't use the stub shaft at the oil pump.
Wish I knew if I was welcome around there, really calm quiet place. No one is in a hurry, and Gord is a pretty quiet but friendly guy. Barely shows any emotion lol! I loved the place, so well equipped obviously. My favourite was the solvent tank with a scrub brush that flows varsol, and then the parts washer you can transfer it to after. Sandblasters are awesome too, but my buddy already did most of that.
Now to get the other 6bolt and car together. This engine is way ahead of the game, I still have a stock one to swap, learn to tune, and possibly blow up!! Lol!
Last edited by Mike Lane; January 15, 2015 07:38 pm UTC.
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Re: A little Update on life.
[Re: Mike Lane]
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February 10, 2015 03:47 am UTC
February 10, 2015 03:47 am UTC
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Some more Entire car harness work its starting to get somewhere! Feels good to have a harness half laid out! ALOTTTT of hours removing then re-installing this thing for a mock up of many mods. My time has become limited and this will be a rushed post. I am moving the battery to the trunk, fuse box in the cabin, deleting a load of unused accessories, tucking, extending, shortening/moving alot of stuff! Hoping to stick emissions sensors/solenoids back behind the passenger tower where the battery used to be. Last month, got the harness mostly untangled and laid everything out in relation to factory to remind myself how this crazy thing laid out. Engine bay Fuse box and harness are under the car on the floor along the rad support, and then along the drivers fender plugged into the cabin fuse box. Engine sensors still tangled in some organized chaos. Here the engine harness has been better organized and laid out in the organized branches of clusters of sensors. The branch on the passenger strut tower is sensors for the intake mani, ignition, and timing, as well as emissions. They all get hidden behind the engine. Fuel injectors on the drivers tower, MAS, thermostat, 02 sensors on the nearside of the pass tower. Getting ready to move the fuse box to the cabin. Such a mess ! This is my initial idea to move the fuse box behind the passenger seat and run the harness back there or under the seats. Then rewire it to a trunk battery, and to a killswitch and fuel pump require with toggle switch. I have since bolted the drivers footwell box back in temporarily, and connected everything back up. However not sure how many wires I want to lengthen. Started trying to extend the front light connectors and realized I need a supply of wire and more time and patience. Maybe a better soldering iron or tip too lol! Might be easier on myself to try and reduce the distance to the front of the car to run 2 half harnesses up right and left fenders.
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Re: A little Update on life.
[Re: Mike Lane]
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February 10, 2015 12:23 pm UTC
February 10, 2015 12:23 pm UTC
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Bryan Lawrence
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Looks mad!! Make sure you know which sensors are resistance based so you don't extend those wires and screw up your readings.
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Re: A little Update on life.
[Re: Mike Lane]
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February 12, 2015 03:04 pm UTC
February 12, 2015 03:04 pm UTC
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Just figured I would put that out there, there have been people that have shortened their sensor wires and then screwed up the signal.
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Re: A little Update on life.
[Re: Mike Lane]
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February 13, 2015 06:44 pm UTC
February 13, 2015 06:44 pm UTC
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I definately have sensors that are too long! I figured loop em up gently inside the loom to shorten So currently I have learned that I ll be taking off to windsor for school placement in May/June/July. Hope to learn alot, but project will be slowing down until august. I ll do what I can in the meantime If I m lucky my previous schooling could land me some spare change while I am not learning (unpaid) on the 40 hr week. Not where I see living in the end, but life takes crazy turns doesn't it. Really hoping my last placement in Sept/oct/nov brings me back home (After a month off in august). Then I m done for good. Maybe someone will employ me and pay me longer than 3 months this time. Big money. Racecar funding, life altering, house buying with bigger garage kind of money. Let me know when you're in town - I live 10 minutes from the Windsor border in Detroit. Hope everything works out!
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Re: A little Update on life.
[Re: Michael Lee]
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March 22, 2015 03:23 pm UTC
March 22, 2015 03:23 pm UTC
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Hehe ! nice but that didnt help. My engine bay harness is roughed out how I think I want it now. Want to get a little further in the cabin before I tease with more pics of webs of wires. The bay is in good organized, taped, strands now Makes me wana toss my engine in ! Going to have to put some gaskets and timing bits in my spring budget Started working one day a week. Building bicycles outside of school time. 1st day back went well! 36 assemblies in 6 hours but they were mostly easier builds. Hope to keep that pace up, with peace work that is about 20 bucks an hr good gig if I can make a bit more time for it and keep up the pace. Sorta in the limbo phase broke awaiting next OSAP spring/summer installment :S and that isnt enough to live off of working a placement May, june, july, full time in another city with no pay.
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Re: A little Update on life.
[Re: Mike Lane]
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May 02, 2016 09:30 am UTC
May 02, 2016 09:30 am UTC
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Bryan Lawrence
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Good stuff, looking forward to some updates!
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Re: A little Update on life.
[Re: Mike Lane]
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May 13, 2016 11:23 am UTC
May 13, 2016 11:23 am UTC
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Bryan Lawrence
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Nice find Mike!! Look forward to seeing some crazy fab skills, I suggest you get some gas and do this yourself! I did some patches on the old car with flux and it works but was a bitch cause of how hot it is but with gas you should be good to go!
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