I took a trip down to Bonneville Performance yesterday to drop my upper case off to have it bored. With any luck, the end of next week I will get it back so I can start the assembly. But Bill sent me home with some nice eye candy until the case gets back:
My stroked crank to 74mm vice the stock 68mm.
My Swedish Juggs! Thanks Jorgen, I can't keep my eyes and hands off of them!
The pistons, 101mm
The soda can is used as a size reference
The stock piston is able to fit into the dish of the new piston
one more shot of my rods incase you are just tuning in!
The teardown went great, after a trip to Sears for a #50 Torx bit, it was fairly straight forward. However, once I got to the bearings, rod and main, inspection revealed that the babbit layer is still visable! My engine has 6500 miles on it and if anyone knows what a babbit layer is, I'm sure you are saying WOW. The babbit layer is a super thin, finer than frog hair split four ways, coating on the bearings. This coating is delicate enough to be removed by a paper towel.
The pistons had the usual carbon, but the sides were a different story. Reference the pic up top, for those that nay-say the "pin-it" break in there is your proof. The piston is brand new from the compression ring down, just like it should be!
The stock juggs looked awsome too, the cross hatch pattern was still visable on the liners.
Stay tuned!
Greg
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