The Bastard motor

[McKenney]

this build is back on, all the parts in previous pictures have been sold. I picked up a running hicomp from Thaison and will be swapping the big port head on tonight. pics coming later.

[McKenney]

Thaison's old redtop

052512174852 by McKenneyLevin, on Flickr

pulled the head off

052612184129 by McKenneyLevin, on Flickr

did some cleaning

052612184145 by McKenneyLevin, on Flickr

a new 4agze head gasket

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bolted the head down to 75lb/ft

052612191249 by McKenneyLevin, on Flickr

Still have to install the cams and realign the timing belt. Can't wait to see what she does!!!!!!
Also I'm using an AE92 Redtop bottom end, with an AE86 Bluetop head and cams and all the corresponding RWD stuff.

[McKenney]

It's alive!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Crank pulley from NST has the timing mark in the wrong place, so there was a nice fiasco there. Once I figured that out, I got the cams and timing belt lined up. Pulled the motor out of my car and then swapped in the Bastard motor. It runs but the timing is still off and sounds like a Subaru... But oil pressure is above half on the gauge even after it's warmed up and been driven and the temp holds perfectly at 170(p.s. I have a 170 degree thermostat). But it lopes pretty good at idle. I'm using a Bluetop intake cam and a Redtop exhaust cam, mainly because I realized I grabbed the Redtop one and already had it covered in assembly lube and torqued down, after I had it coated in assembly lube and had it torqued down. We'll see how she runs once I get the ignition timing right.

[McKenney]

ignition timing set @ 24+/- degrees advanced it runs awesome! pulls harder than the stock 16v did.

[McKenney]

vid posted in my build thread