hehe ... i dont know anything... lol i work in IT

After doing some more measuring, I really need the lift - so decided on manufacturing custom valves.

Price - Reliability - Quality. Not skimping on the build. Fortunately I've got a hell of a lot of machining resource and materials to play with - the sky really is the limit.

Side note, and there will be an official posting at some point - you're looking at the new Pauter Rod dealer for South Africa :-) They are more expensive than other brands but hell they are good and using them in my personal build.

Visit them some time - not the best of sites but look past that and do some research http://www.pauter.com/

Bad quality or not,please post 

Thanks,when u do strip down the motor can u check what's casted on the conrods,I have seen some with fn2 and some with fn7 casted above the big end

Physically it does not look any different we waiting to strip down a buddy of mines motor and then we will compare them as we only had rebuilt pics to look at. What i do know is the fn7 was a local motor, fn2 seems to have been from a import. I'll confirm with you as soon as we know with some pics

I will certainly do so. NA with some throttles is the plans for my buddies motor, for now mine is still NA.It's still on the engine stand hoping to drop in the near future.

Thanx for feedback will take some pics and post up ova the weekend.

Looking nice,about the rods,pm me an email address and you can then see the rods,I've seen fn2,fn3,fn4,fn5,fn7,fn8,fn9 as well beginning to think at this point no difference exists and maybe the castings is an indication of maybe which assembly lines they came off at the factory?

Progress report: Finished specifications on rods this will arrive towards the end of November 2011.

My good friend (and engineer) sms'd me on Friday with a possible custom piston choice - after reviewing pin height and the amount of meat we have to play will on the piston tops (as well as the compression bump I'm looking at) we might have found something better than going along and manufacturing customs.

R/S should be closer to 1.8 now, perfect for the sort of RPM I've got planned.

Hi all,

Here's an update of where we are. Rods have been sitting aside ready for install for a while now with a few decisions hanging in the air my side on the exact direction i'd like to go on the head. After careful consideration to weight on the valvetrain we think we've come up with a good way forward.

I can't give a definitive date as to when final assembly will begin but it will be within the next 2 months. There is a lot of machine work still - might add an additional month to that if scheduling is a problem.

Don't get too excited though, that will be the motor alone - and no where close to first start-up. I've still got the suspension work, gearbox, cooling system, aero and electronics to plan, improve, purchase, install and tune.

To add another outstanding I'll be needing new wheels - that's because i'm selling the old ones if anyone is interested. Make an offer, all four with the rubber that's left on the fronts and two new Pirelli P7000's on the rears. PM if interested, please keep this thread on topic of this build / restore.

4x114.3 PCD



That's all for now. Thank you for reading.