Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Control arms

These are new control arms made by 034 motorsports, made from billet aluminum. Very well made. better then the OE ones that broke while trying to press in new bushings.

 Here is what they look like on the sub frame which is what hold in the transmission for this car.
And this is the unit installed on the car, in which the transmission will rest on, above that is the steering rack and the vacuum booster for the brakes. I was told the bolts for the sub frame should be torqued at 60 ft/lbs because there longer bolts for the aluminum bushings yet haven't torqued them yet.

Friday, June 10, 2011

I started to install the Oil pan onto the engine block, the tool I was using was this;
I was using this torque wrench to torque the bolts on the oil pan to 20 Newton meters (15 Ft lbs). Turns out this torque wrench is to old and became faulty.
The result is this.
A screw that broke in half,  sucks, so to everyone wanting to trying an engine built...make sure your tools aren't broken, lol.

I will make another post when I figure out how to fix this problem.

Powder coated parts

Here are the Intake manifold, Oil pan, and the Valve cover for the engine. These pieces just came back from getting powder coated and they look great.