95 TA - Retrospective view of the build

[FastVert]

I know of a short block for sale... very clean car though. White looks very nice

Making you silky smooth...

Thanks for both! This is just a recap of the build, I was able to reuse my block and it runs fairly good. Thanks for the compliments.

[MI6TA]

Loving the way you're making it a story. I'm thinking about painting my engine bay while the motor is out like you did. How did you get the wires out of the way? and was it easy to get all the surface areas covered?

[FastVert]

Loving the way you're making it a story. I'm thinking about painting my engine bay while the motor is out like you did. How did you get the wires out of the way? and was it easy to get all the surface areas covered?

Thanks a lot! It is a story when you've had it as long as I have. To keep the wires from being painted I wrapped them ALL in plastic from the paint store/ plastic bags and used bungee cords to hold them out of the way. The hardest part was cleaning all the surfaces and then going back and using a red scotch pad to scuff up the surface. If you have your engine out NOW IS THE TIME TO DO IT! I used a detail gun vs. a full size gun so I could turn my hands and the gun without it hitting anything - I used a 16.00 detail gun at that from Harbor Freight LOL.

[FastVert]

The Engine Build -
After reading several articles and talking with fellow LTer's I decided to go with the 383 instead of a 396 do to costs. I had my machine shop fill the block to the bottom of the freeze plugs and install the splayed main caps:
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Once I cleaned up the machine dirt etc... I installed the Eagle 4340 Crank(above), Probe SRS .030 pistons on the 6.0 Eagle I beam Rods - the file fit rings were a hoot to install measure, repeat several times for each cylinder:

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With all the rings filed to fit and measure I installed the rods pistons bearings etc..:
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Now for the money makers, yup the heads and CAM!!!

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Next post - installation and small mods along the way to the next build - Yup next one.

[FastVert]

Wow long time since last update, so the new set up went in and I had to work out a lot of little bugs- 1st was the fuel pump and what a pain in the arse it was - on a vert you must have the top UP in order to have enough room to make cuts on to access the fuel pump cover. Replaced the factory one with a Walbro and got it running well enough to dyno tune it. The first session wasn't very fun -more bugs to work out etc... Only made 369RWHP (very dissapointed). After replacing plugs and a small leak the next session was much better and netted a 390RWHP and still on a very rich tune as we were going to play with the N2O set up before did a final tune - The idle was great as well. - vid:


Here are some pics of the new motor with the Del Teq being installed (another good try to replace the opti but another failure as well):
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I really liked this set up, looked great and when it worked it was fantastic but no support with issues forced me to go back to the traditional opti style ignition.

[popo8]

Soinds great!

Doesnt the deltek still utize the opti?

LTXtech.com is my drug.

[FastVert]

Soinds great!

Doesnt the deltek still utize the opti?

LTXtech.com is my drug.

Yup and I had a GEN III Dynaspark to run it - EASTER and VACATION pics 008.jpg

I still have the Delteq and parts but the brain is what died on it.

[popo8]

Ohhhhhh.

LTXtech.com is my drug.