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It’s been awhile, and for everyone who has been waiting patiently I thank you. I am back because I need help and opinion...
10/07/2022

It’s been awhile, and for everyone who has been waiting patiently I thank you. I am back because I need help and opinions. But I will also try and start getting everybody caught up because there is quite a bit of new stuff going on :)

In this picture is a valve keeper, valve lock, whatever you want to call it, but mostly what it is is something you don’t want to see in your oil pan when you pull it :p

Our 04 S4 developed a more aggressive oil pan leak so the process started to reseal the pan when I found this in the pan. Now our S4 having the v8 is know for timing chain issues, but I don’t know of them being know for dropping valve issue. As of current our S4 starts, runs, and drives beautifully, well after 1-1.5 seconds of timing chain rattle at cold start up. So how is it possible for this to be in the oil pan!!

Now here is the kicker, the valve covers leak too so I’m replacing those gaskets while the front end is dangling, and low and behold you can’t see the ends of the valves with the design of the cam and followers….

So what would you do? Run it until it dies? Pull the cams and hopefully be able to put them back properly timed? Or just pull the motor and do chains and the whole 9 yards?

Well it’s been a little while, but things are still progressing. I managed to mill out some pin holes for a John Deere p...
02/26/2022

Well it’s been a little while, but things are still progressing. I managed to mill out some pin holes for a John Deere planter and promptly after that a bearing in the head of the mill let go. I had planned an upgrade for awhile, but I guess this kinda forced my hand. Since my mill is a hand mill converted to CNC it has a few features that aren’t used anymore, like a quill drive and hi/low gear box. Well the gearbox is where the problem happened, the motor ran a belt to a shaft with the 2 speeds of gears, to the output of the gear box to another pair of gears driving the spindle. I had flipped a set of gears years ago to get my RPMs higher and that is what killed the bearing. Now I have a V belt drive hiding in the original top cover with the motor running directly to the spindle. And WOW! It runs so much quiet with out two sets of straight cut gears wailing away. I did a bit of machining today and it feels good, until I run a CNC process I won’t know if it’s perfect yet, but a huge step forward!!

With the recent snow Mud and Murle both seem to be hot blooded and love being covered in snow. Our deck gets all the sno...
02/19/2022

With the recent snow Mud and Murle both seem to be hot blooded and love being covered in snow. Our deck gets all the snow blowing off the roof right down on it and Mud looks hilarious covered in snow and happy as can be :)

The head bolts for the forester are finally here!!!I planned ahead, I ordered head bolts January 10th with all the other...
02/19/2022

The head bolts for the forester are finally here!!!

I planned ahead, I ordered head bolts January 10th with all the other parts for the engine replacement for the forester, I waited until they all got here(so I thought) and started in on the engine pull. Around the first week of February I realized I never got the head bolts and promptly contacted the seller only to find out that the shipping label was produced but the bolts are nowhere to be found. I ordered a second set, from a different seller, and they made it a bit farther, then disappeared for 7 days. Luckily after that it finally showed up in Kansas City and now into my hands.

So now the forester rebuild can continue, I’ve got the heads cleaned and prepped, the block is mostly disassembled and ready to start going back together, hopefully soon it will be back on the road :)

You can’t complain too much when your tools fail WHEN they fail just after you finish up a job for a customer :p but aft...
02/14/2022

You can’t complain too much when your tools fail WHEN they fail just after you finish up a job for a customer :p but after 11 years and most of them running the gear box at double the rated speed, I’ve lost a bearing and looking things over worn the teeth out on one of the gears inside the head of the mill. So now I need to find a way to adapt the head to be a direct belt drive off the motor, and wouldn’t you know it, the best tool for making the pieces I need… the CNC mill, so I am going to find some other machines to use to make my parts and more importantly, try and find a set of gears with proper teeth count meant to fit over the huge spindle and draw bar. Let the challenge begin :p

More tig practice, still far from perfect, but I was able to fill the old drain hole on this radiator that was in the wa...
02/13/2022

More tig practice, still far from perfect, but I was able to fill the old drain hole on this radiator that was in the way of the mount, and I was able to tack the AN fittings on for test fitting and that’s a huge milestone for me. I had stuck things together before but never with the confidence I had today seeing the pool form and melt, and the feed material go between both pieces and I could tell how the heat control and which material had the heat in it made a difference. Now just because I did that doesn’t mean if you zoom in you won’t see some of the worst tack welds ever done, but every day is a bit better and one day I’ll do the finish welds too and be happy with them :)

A new video is up and a short break from the Cappuccino build, since the Forester blew the head gaskets and I had a forg...
02/11/2022

A new video is up and a short break from the Cappuccino build, since the Forester blew the head gaskets and I had a forged short block I figured I might as well get more YouTube practice out on the motor replacement. Currently the project is stalled waiting on parts that I didn’t notice hadn’t shipped back in January :( but the head bolts should be here Monday and the motor will get put back in soon :)

Forester XS EJ255 Shortblock Swap: How to Pull a Subaru Engine https://youtu.be/S1G3__wefqU

Working on adapting ITB’s to the Gm 3500 and 3900 VVT V6 engine. I currently have a set up on one motor using a Yamaha ...
02/11/2022

Working on adapting ITB’s to the Gm 3500 and 3900 VVT V6 engine. I currently have a set up on one motor using a Yamaha outboard 2 stroke V6 throttle assembly. While it does sound good and looks the part quite nicely it has an issue with port diameter along the runner length changing drastically larger then smaller since it opens up for where the reed valves used to be. I plan to use my Brunton as a test bed and try the stock intake, my current ITB intake and this new design that uses a pair of Triumph 3 cylinder motor cycle blades. This design isn’t perfect either, but the varying port diameter is much less extreme and I think the blades are a bit larger, this will also be my step towards running an insane jenvey throttle assembly set of maybe even 60mm blades per cylinder!

So stay tuned for this one, I will be documenting all of the power differences and sound difference of the set ups on my YouTube channel along with all my other crazy builds like the W8 Twin Turbo Lotus Elise :)

I moved the lift in my shop and for the most part it has been good, It was just too close for some of our bigger cars to...
02/09/2022

I moved the lift in my shop and for the most part it has been good, It was just too close for some of our bigger cars to be pulled in on it and all the way lifted up. Well I put the Forester in rear end first and well, back to clearance issues :p it still went up to the second to top notch so lots of room under, but I still have to duck :p

Working on the Subaru short block swap and the coolant crossover pipe from the EJ253 SOHC hits on the extra crank case v...
02/08/2022

Working on the Subaru short block swap and the coolant crossover pipe from the EJ253 SOHC hits on the extra crank case vent that the EJ255 has. I tried grinding it down but it cut through so I decided it was time for some tig practice. And as they say, if you are a bad welder you need to be a good grinder, well it looks good, but it has some pinholes, so I’m gonna try and clean it up again and go over it a bit more and see if I can get the porosity out of it.

Test fit of the EJ253 heads on the EJ255 block is looking good, I mean a lot of people have done this, so it’s not huge ...
02/06/2022

Test fit of the EJ253 heads on the EJ255 block is looking good, I mean a lot of people have done this, so it’s not huge news, but not the best documented so it’s still nice when it works out. There is a small tab that holds the DOHC rear timing cover to this block that isn’t used, but you can see it clears the SOHC cam gear nicely :)

I mentioned with the Tube Frame Fiero I am wanting to install TWO 3.9l LZ9 60 degree GM V6 motors, joined by gears, thro...
02/05/2022

I mentioned with the Tube Frame Fiero I am wanting to install TWO 3.9l LZ9 60 degree GM V6 motors, joined by gears, through a single Audi 6 speed transaxle. This is the first “test fit” for the motors exaggerating a little since I can’t get perfect measurements with it up in the air on the storage lift. But this is looking so promising!!

I will have to cut a couple of the structural tubes, but I plan to build a mid plate and mount the motors as structural members of the frame making install and removal easier too :)

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