Slant 6 Turbo 68Dart Project
Ideally it has to fall into the same spectrum as the current car - be incredibly driveable. If 400hp makes it act badly, then I'll do 300, if 300 is too much of hassle, 250. You know what I mean? This build is for a car that needs to run every single day of its life, even though we have a second car now, I like driving THIS one. This build was never ever meant to be Hemi Destroyer, Ls1 Crusher, etc... it's pure fun in a dependable package. If it makes 300 - cool. Remember my last goal was 200, and I hit that. Now I'm just setting a new one. I may look into some really awesome pistons, but right now I have a basic plan. Keep in mind too I have never ever rebuilt an engine, but I want to do it myself, minus the machine work, which I have no way of doing.
My basic plan is hone the block, and the bearings, etc...020ish over pistons and ring set, a nice functional cam that is maybe more adequate than the stock cam (I still have no idea what that is on turbo, but I am researching these things all the time), I would use the solid lifter head off the current block I have, and maybe try and find some 2.2 (I think it is) connecting rods, to increase the displacement somewhere near 232 or something, then maybe have our machinest dish the pistons a little bit to decrease compression. Right now the head is shaved anywhere from .020 - .040 as far as I can guess just from how many times I've had the head off and previous owners had it off, and the last time .010 came off to get rid of the warp that was in it. I may even do a 4 bbl setup. I also want to simplify my exhaust J pipe, by removing the J-pipe and doing something similar to this:
Credit for that goes to "Thomas S" on the sl6.org site.
:D This turbo setup is nearing 10k miles, and right now I'm still dealing with the block liking to throw rust into the radiator. I was about to buy a brand new Mishimoto radiator for the car (yes they do have one that will fit) but I'm thinking why trash something nice like that with rust and junk flying into it? I don't really know what to do in the interrim, but I'm thinking I'll take this current rad out, shoot 150 psi through it upside down or something and see what happens.
I'm ordering a new Intercooler and coolant reservoir from Mishi. to get the car onto the track. I'm almost in the "lets blow it up" sort of mood, but not quite. I have to continue to stay calm and collected even though this cooling issue is frustrating me right now, and it will be a moment till I can reassemble another slant six. I'm not sure if I can get the other motor for free, but maybe he'll sell it for something reasonable. Shipping would literally be me getting in a forklift, driving 200 feet away, grabbing the motor on the pallet, and driving it back to our shop.
Currently today, I also found 2 of the spark plugs aren't sealing in the tubes, not the spark plug tube seals, but the spark plugs against the tubes. I'm thinking they may need some kind of rubber O-ring or something since the plugs don't have washers on them. I don't know if that would effect anything or not, but oil is just spitting like dog slobber out onto the spark plug wires. Not a lot of oil - but any oil is an annoyance sort of thing.
There's a lot that has to come off it, but he said he only keeps good engines on pallets, bad engines are piled into a corner or in a container, so he has to think about why he has it on a pallet - maybe he intended to use it for something sort of thing.
Ideally it has to fall into the same spectrum as the current car - be incredibly driveable. If 400hp makes it act badly, then I'll do 300, if 300 is too much of hassle, 250. You know what I mean? This build is for a car that needs to run every single day of its life, even though we have a second car now, I like driving THIS one. This build was never ever meant to be Hemi Destroyer, Ls1 Crusher, etc... it's pure fun in a dependable package. If it makes 300 - cool. Remember my last goal was 200, and I hit that. Now I'm just setting a new one. I may look into some really awesome pistons, but right now I have a basic plan. Keep in mind too I have never ever rebuilt an engine, but I want to do it myself, minus the machine work, which I have no way of doing.
My basic plan is hone the block, and the bearings, etc...020ish over pistons and ring set, a nice functional cam that is maybe more adequate than the stock cam (I still have no idea what that is on turbo, but I am researching these things all the time), I would use the solid lifter head off the current block I have, and maybe try and find some 2.2 (I think it is) connecting rods, to increase the displacement somewhere near 232 or something, then maybe have our machinest dish the pistons a little bit to decrease compression. Right now the head is shaved anywhere from .020 - .040 as far as I can guess just from how many times I've had the head off and previous owners had it off, and the last time .010 came off to get rid of the warp that was in it. I may even do a 4 bbl setup. I also want to simplify my exhaust J pipe, by removing the J-pipe and doing something similar to this:
Credit for that goes to "Thomas S" on the sl6.org site.
:D This turbo setup is nearing 10k miles, and right now I'm still dealing with the block liking to throw rust into the radiator. I was about to buy a brand new Mishimoto radiator for the car (yes they do have one that will fit) but I'm thinking why trash something nice like that with rust and junk flying into it? I don't really know what to do in the interrim, but I'm thinking I'll take this current rad out, shoot 150 psi through it upside down or something and see what happens.
I'm ordering a new Intercooler and coolant reservoir from Mishi. to get the car onto the track. I'm almost in the "lets blow it up" sort of mood, but not quite. I have to continue to stay calm and collected even though this cooling issue is frustrating me right now, and it will be a moment till I can reassemble another slant six. I'm not sure if I can get the other motor for free, but maybe he'll sell it for something reasonable. Shipping would literally be me getting in a forklift, driving 200 feet away, grabbing the motor on the pallet, and driving it back to our shop.
Currently today, I also found 2 of the spark plugs aren't sealing in the tubes, not the spark plug tube seals, but the spark plugs against the tubes. I'm thinking they may need some kind of rubber O-ring or something since the plugs don't have washers on them. I don't know if that would effect anything or not, but oil is just spitting like dog slobber out onto the spark plug wires. Not a lot of oil - but any oil is an annoyance sort of thing.
There's a lot that has to come off it, but he said he only keeps good engines on pallets, bad engines are piled into a corner or in a container, so he has to think about why he has it on a pallet - maybe he intended to use it for something sort of thing.