Valvebouncer

I assume you mean the different thrust bearing clearances, not the tyre lever thing?

I’m waiting for them to bring out a digital tyre lever gauge [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23] It’s amazing what you can learn from the old blokes if you just shut your mouth and listen. A mate of mine is mad for minis, the real ones. They only have 3 mains caps compared to newer 4 cylinders with 5 therefore they are susceptible to crankshaft whip and cracking. The old school trick is to have a bigger clearance thrust bearing on the bottom compared to the top. I guess they know, considering they spin them to 10,500 rpm and they stay together!

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Interesting. It looks like that point in between the valves could form a hot spot though.

Why not, save yourself some money. The good old crossflow! They go forever.

Nice one. What car will this go in?

Kris, if your interested there is a powder coater in Blacktown who specialises in wheels. He quoted me $500 to blast and powder coat 4 wire spoked wheels for my mgb. I’ll see if I can find his details Edit: http://www.advancedpowdercoating.com.au/

Yes. Just swap the sensors. Au2 would be better than au1. Series 2 has smartshield not smartlock etc.

Coolant temperature sensor

I know you say you have fixed it through the mounts but I’m curious to know about the airstream. Does it change through the rev range? Did anyone try running some sort of smoke or gas like in a wind tunnel?

Same. I found this one. This is super interesting!

That’s the millennium falcon front spoiler. It was originally on a ford promotional ute that was painted in an eye watering shade of orange/red. Envyxf is working on making reproduction ones of these at his place of employment.

I have heard of it in non crossflow engines when they were still fairly new but not in crossflows. Your lucky you caught it before the balancer started flogging out the crank

Did you put locktite on it?

^^ this. Does it burn much oil? What are the plugs like? Are they getting burnt oil ( barnacles) building up on the plugs? I’d do a compression test. No point putting a new pump in a stuffed motor. If the gauge is reading right then it sounds like you either have a relief valve problem or excessive clearances in the motor which would mean a rebuild.

Later model falcons run it next to the chassis rail on the passenger side but on the inner side. Not too sure how you would avoid going near extractors on a v8 unless it’s inside the rail.

I just re read this thread from the beginning and Tony mentioned his came off a GEM engine, that is why I asked. GEM did some weird stuff. A mate of mine has a 250 2v head he picked up at a swap meet. He dropped it off at the engine machinist to look over. He could tell it was a GEM engine when he stripped it down as they had their own valves, they are 5thou thicker at the base than the top where the collets are so they don’t have to worry about replacing, installing or k-lining the valve guides when they recondition the engine. I wonder if they did something to the chamber to prevent a hot spot forming, I never heard of them casting their own heads or block, they tended to just use factory major components and recondition them their “special” way. Most fords 6 cylinders got a 60 thou overbore. Did the bottom end have oversized pistons?

There’s no chance this head came off a GEM reconditioned engine?

That gasket is weird. I’d peg it, it would give me the shits trying to change plugs- which you will need to do often with this engine.

Ok, Barras are super interesting and seem like a good starting point. A few things I have heard that I want to get confirmed. * do turbo motors have oil squirters on the underside of the pistons? * if so do lpg motors have this too? * I have been told that 2007 onwards all got the turbo bottom end, is this true?

I’m listening.

That gasket looks back to front. Back should be at the front etc..

I thought they were after the pump up near the carby but it can’t hurt to put one before the pump. If it has an original thermoquad they have a filter built into the inlet. Most mechanical fuel pumps you buy these days from repco or supercheap are absolute garbage , don’t waste your money. If you can buy one from a reputable performance brand, just a std spec one for the sake of reliability. If it hasn’t run on Petrol for a while I’d be flushing out the tank, a fuel filter will only take out so much junk.

Here you go, this will help.

Permaseal for mls head gasket. Their fit and quality of all other gaskets seems pretty good too