November
Of the Si as it sits now, fresh after a wash.
November
Before I get into the block, I emailed RRev Motorsports about their ghetto rigging of my engine mount, and to no surprise they had nothing to say. Not even a weak apology or some lame excuse. Really professional. Definitely not recommending these guys to anyone. I tored the block apart today as my wife snapped [...]
November
Looks like the retainer for the spring that broke a valve has some damage and at least the retainer needs to be replaced. I’ve yet to glance at the rockers to see if there’s any damage from that retainer hitting it, but I’m guessing since the retainer took the wear, the rockers are OK. Now [...]
November
I spent the afternoon at my buddy’s place on Saturday and we tore the engine down. I snapped pictures along the way and we stuck it all in the trunk of my Si. It fit amazingly well, even fit the engine stand into the back seat, LOL. The only damage found was cylinder #4 due [...]
November
To summarize a generally bad week, my 08 Si engine decided to let cylinder #4 go to a better place literally right after dyno pull #32 as I was tuning my new cam setup. It happened when we were completely off the throttle, so it was not a tuning issue/detonation. We had no idea what [...]