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Post by bulldog on Apr 13, 2009 19:36:01 GMT 12
to be really safe you'd want to get yourself a rebuild kit for each.
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Post by friendlyfire on May 16, 2009 23:09:02 GMT 12
pulled my old head,cam off last night found out that my old head actually has bigger valves then the one i was replacing it with! also has a much better porting job but its not setup for my new cam so i still put the other head on new cam on left compared to old one on right notice the duration on one on left and old one has slightly more lift my twin strombergs =) strombergs on the new head and put it all back 2gether alot lumpyer and has a much nicer induction sound, havent been able to fully compare it to my old setup because its not running right yet and wont idle, all in a matter of time!
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Post by friendlyfire on May 17, 2009 17:34:07 GMT 12
got her running and ideling but still prety rough neda get my carbs tuned properly and do something about my dizzy, its not advancing enough.
took her for a spin in the paddock ;D
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Post by friendlyfire on May 24, 2009 17:11:53 GMT 12
what an absolute sh*t day had a real bad hangover in the morning, went and droped my bro off to pick up his car then went out into the wop wops to have some fun with my car was good all good untill i was accelerating hard redlining the beast spinning the tyres smashed her into secound then BANG grrrrrooooorrrrr engine died, i pulled over was thinking "damn i killed the standard bottom end" got out of the car opend the bonnet and my cam belt was off my cam gear then i felt around a few things and my whole cam gear pulled right off.... it broke the damn cam and the whole snout had came off, well now iv f'd my new cam and prob bent all my valves(hopefully not will have to see). then i went to ring my brother to come tow me home... no reception so i walked up the road a bit more... still no reception so i keep walking and a guy in a blue ute pulls up and asks me if i need a ride(what a good sort) so i accepted his offer and got droped off at the top of the hill, thank god he was so nice and picked me up because we had to go at least 10km to get reception. rang my brother, turned out my dad had had the tow rope and stuff with him(took the torana to timaru for the weekend for the muscle car show) so i rang the AA, explained where i was and what had happend and then a tow truck was on its way, while i was waiting a cop pulls up and asks what i was doing and if i needed any help( who knew cops could be so nice? ;D) so tow truck came picked me up and went and got the car, put it on back of truck and took me and the car to the nearest mechanic/petrol station and got my bro to pick me up, left the car there untill later tonight when my dad comes home(hopefully its going to be ok there ) will get pics up later on once i have the car home
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Post by gemininja on May 24, 2009 18:38:57 GMT 12
gutd! warranty on the cam?? it lookd meen on youtube. is your starter a unipoint? i just rebuilt mine all pretty haha, cant be botherd tryng to get a reduction to fit. ill get an internally regulated altenator at some stage though..
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Post by gordo on May 24, 2009 21:40:00 GMT 12
That's a bummer, dude, just how tight did you have the belt??? You may have got away without any bent valves, depending on the cam' spec and how much has been taken off the head/block faces, as the standard CF 2.3 was a non-interference engine. Regardless, you'll be finding out as the cam carrier and head'll have to come off to re-fit the old ones.
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Post by mikuni on May 24, 2009 21:57:49 GMT 12
Bad news man, gutted to hear. Hopefully those valves should be ok, I would think they will be but you can never say until you have a look I guess.
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Post by friendlyfire on May 24, 2009 22:34:55 GMT 12
yeah.. it sucks hard.. and na the belt was not to tight maybe even a little loose if anything soz for the bad quality pics, damn camera wouldnt focus properly got the car home, pulled the tappet cover off and the verdict is..! smashed a follower, which jamed the cam, munched up the cam box which riped the cam gear off the cam was pulling around 6300rpm and going from that to a dead stop has to do something brutal lol some nice bits of cam follower which was all in the engine along with little bits of metal everywhere and prob a nutsload in my sump now... on the bright side i now have an awesome looking ornament!
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Post by friendlyfire on May 25, 2009 19:01:27 GMT 12
took cam box off and got some better pics of the damage.. im scared to take the head off also didn't have enough time
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Post by friendlyfire on May 25, 2009 22:17:04 GMT 12
gutd! warranty on the cam?? it lookd meen on youtube. is your starter a unipoint? i just rebuilt mine all pretty haha, cant be botherd tryng to get a reduction to fit. ill get an internally regulated altenator at some stage though.. na no warranty, i gess this is what happens when u buy second hand high performance bits... and i have no idea what a unipoint starter motor is lol, iv got a internal regulated altenator on mine ;D
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Post by bulldog on May 27, 2009 11:17:23 GMT 12
That's fairly unusual mate. Did a lifter get stuck and the cam smash it through the cam carrier? ferk! must have got nuts in it or expanded under heat? I have a heap of lifters if you need a spare. I've got heaps of spare cam carriers too. Yes I am the 2300 pregnant dog.
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Post by gemininja on May 27, 2009 19:02:40 GMT 12
unipoint is a brand haha. they just rebuild starters and modify them
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Post by friendlyfire on May 28, 2009 19:12:27 GMT 12
That's fairly unusual mate. Did a lifter get stuck and the cam smash it through the cam carrier? ferk! must have got nuts in it or expanded under heat? I have a heap of lifters if you need a spare. I've got heaps of spare cam carriers too. Yes I am the 2300 pregnant dog. not really to sure aye, the follower is siezed in now, dont know if it happend before or after it smashed, was still a heap of oil around when i took tappet cover off, dont really know if i had oil pressure, didnt look untill engine died and pulled over cheers for the offer on the parts but im just going to stick my old gear back on.. thats if thats the only bits that are fked will take the head off this weekend. unipoint is a brand haha. they just rebuild starters and modify them oh lol, have no idea, auto sparky done it all, i asked him but he didnt deal with them was another guy but he wasnt there, IIRC all he could tell me was they use toyota diesel starters which are 2.2kw and they machine the face to fit your engine, i can ask him to get contacts if ya keen
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Post by gemininja on May 28, 2009 19:55:52 GMT 12
kud be aye. im an auto sparky (apprentice) but waay to lazy to sort one out myself. ill get back to you after i get her running hahahaha (see you in a few years at this rate)
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Post by gordo on May 28, 2009 21:04:55 GMT 12
Not sure if that sort of thing was a factor, but in the late seventies the followers were replaced by slightly longer ones. At the time we thought it was due to wearing of the bore in the cam box.
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