Man !! Looking good bleeder ,great job on the pistons.

 

lmao, you know that would be weird if they were

oh man, now I gotta to look up the lirics for the song, lol


tiz a purdy motor

but I'm going to be painting mine Chrystler Red, matching the valve cover, but I'll just be getting back the machined block with brass plugs installed, finished crank and the specs on it so I can order the main and rod bearings, and the new pistons and rods pressed together.

 

Sometimes I wish I would have had the time to do more to the motor, but I've been happy with it! Your motor is going to be SAAHWEEET!!!

 

yeah, I was originally just gonig to get a complete long block for it, but I thought to myself "what the hell, let's rebuild the original"





OH, and I'm also taking my alternator to work with me, and giving it to the people we have rebuild all of out alternators and starters for the branch; they do good work. I talked to the guy today about it, and he says he doesn't think he could get ahold of any kit that'll boost the output amps, but once I get him the alt, he'll see what he can do about maybe finding one that is similar in how it mounts and the plugs, and specifically look for one with 80 or more amps this one's still good, but I need something a little more beefy; I'm already running a 1000watt stereo, the 2 100watt lights, and the dual batteries, and with the motor rebuild I'm ditching the mechanical fan for an electric fan, AND in the future I'll have a winch and an aircompressor on board, so a little more amperage wouldn't hurt I'll let you guys know what I find on that; might come up with an easy upgrade I mentioned to him about the Celica's with the 22re's, but he's going to look into it and see what he can find

 

Yeah, I didn't want to just go buy a turn key motor...I just would have NOT been satisfied with THAT! lol!! I figured, I'll tear it apart and turn it in to the pro's and put it all back in and do the whole job by myself and with a come-a-long!!! lol!!!

Oh yeah, here's what I did with my altenator and it was wicked easy and fairly cheap and works:

http://www.4x4wire.com/toyota/tech/alternator/

 

What about the 3.0 alt? Any upgrade kits for it?

 

I'm not to hip on the 3.0, but you can try this:
http://www.4x4wire.com/toyota/tech/p...weralternator/

 

whoa, fer realz?

where's the pix?

that's freek'n awsome man! I maye be looking into that option too; the guy wants to charge me $60 to rebuild this one to stock and for a different type one, well I'd be paying for an entire brand new alt, so...

dude, that's awesome, thanks!

 

I think I paid like $55 for the new armature. Now it's not gonna give you 160 amps, but it's way better than stock. I havent tested my altenator in a while to see what it's putting out after all these years.

 

lookin good bleeder..

i hope you dont get the ROCK KNOCK.. lol jk!

 

not funny





lol




Well, I delivered everything to the machine shop today after work. What really cool is I know the owner and most of the guys that work at the shop, and I didn't even realize it! Back when I worked at Advance Auto, these guys use to come up there all the time, and there was only two people they would talk to behind the counter for any help; my buddy who is a freek'n Ford fanatic and has about 5 Mustangs that he drags, and me so at least we've got a little bit of history, and I know it's in good hands, cause I know the guy does good work



OH, and right next door is the local 4x4 shop in the area, called T.J.'s 4X4 (anybody local this area knows the place), and he says he thinks he has the front portion of a bracket lift he'll sell me we'll have to see about that though; I need to look at it and see who it's made by, and what kinda shape it's in

 

Well, that's pretty cool!! What's the turn around on the motor then?

If you can't figure out what brand that lift is, post up some pix.

 

about 2 weeks, maybe earlier though but I've got a LOT of other work left to do

we're getting hot-tanked, bored and honed, freeze plugs installed, crank polished, and the wrist pins pushed through the pistons and rods, cause it's really tight clearances and a little too hard for mr to get the wrist pins into the rods with the bew bushings. They're just pretty backed up as it is, so that's the only reason for the wait. The guy had 5 V8 blocks he was working on that I could see, and probably 12-13 more lined up agains the wall I mean sure my motor's probably only one days hard work, but it's first come first serve, and I'm in no big rush; I've got PLENTY of other things to keep me occupied for now, lol


yeah, about the bracket kit, I dunno, I'll have to see, because I really wanted to get the ProComp II with the kicker-bars if I were to go bracket... I still have my 1" diff drop which I'm definately installing while the motor's out and it's easy to get to, cause just with my slightly tweaked T-bars, my CV angles are like ^ lol, but I've also got my Rancho UCA's sitting here, and I'm HIGHLY considering installing those too, while everything's out of the way and it's really easy to get in and around that area; I just need to dig up some instrustions for them; I'd like to get some torque specs and what-not

 

Well, shoot, if you all ready have the Rancho's and whatnot I'd probably go with that unless they 4x4 shop hooks you up with a good price and it's the Procomp II kit. I really like my Procomp kit, it's beefy!

The speed shop I went to with my motor was about the same, backed up like a mofo. Which I looked at as good, plus they had other 22Rs there getting full rebuilds as well. They were building a motor for a right hand drive 2nd gen 4Runner for a guy who gave them all sorts of aftermarker this and that. Man, I wish I could have seen the finished product on that one! It was gonna be sweet!

 

just an fyi bleeder. the reason those pins dont fit into the bushing is becouse there a "honed fit". meaning they have to hone that bushing out to spec, so those pins will fit perfect.

 

well good, the machine shop can handle that too

Thanks!

 

got a lil more cleaning and paint work done today

































and so they shall "hang out" and cure for a little while







Not bad fer the ol right wrist and a rattle can eh?

 

Man that stuff sure is purty!!!

What did you use on the header?

 

No kidding! When he finally gets it done I'll bet he leaves the hood off and installs some little lights to keep the engine compartment lit up at night.

 

Thank ya!

I used VHT Header Paint




The stuff lays on pretty good! I scrubbed the entire thing down with a red scotchbright pad, gave it a coat of brake cleaner to get any dust or residue off, loosely bolted it to my engine stand, and gave it about 5 light coats it should hold better than that crap Pacesetter puts on them


And the manifold; that consisted of a thorough cleaning with a degreaser-soaked scotchbright pad, a rinse off with water, wire-wheeling the "EFI" lettering and raised area on top, then a coating of brake cleaner to remove anything left. Then taped off all the openings I didn't want paint on, and masked off and cut out the "EFI" letters and raised area on the top, gave a few light coats of self-etching primer, them about 3 coats of the Chrystler Red engine paint (same as the valve cover), followed by 2 clear-coats for that extra shine and durability


HEY, not a bad idea... HAHA, no... It's going to look good, and it's going to perform good, but I'm not going to rice it out, lmao




Also, unlike most people apparently do, I plan on painting the lower intake too