Make Your Boosted Engines Bulletproof!
02-14-2005, 12:54 PM
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Make Your Boosted Engines Bulletproof!
Bulletproofing...our greatest weapon against blowing our engines from spraying or boosting. What's involved you say? A crap load. Here's a list that I started on HP....moving it here...because we deserve to have it here. If someone can make this a sticky, that'd be great.
Most the items on this list was put together by Mechanix_034 on HP.com:
Block and heads teardown and blueprinting
-Honing of cylingers and bore alignment using a torque plate
-Crank alignment
-Block clearancing
-Deburring of the block
-Trueing of deck
-Cleanup of oil and water galleries
-Weld close water jackets
-Micropolishing of bearing journals[all]
-Magnaflux stress releiving on the block and sonic test
Internal rework
-Change to full Crower counter crankshaft kit
-Crower Con-rods
-Cosworth pistons
-Full race bearings[high-load]
Head rework
-Trueing of deck
-Deburring of heads
-Cam journal alignment
-Micropolishing of bearing journals
-Cleanup of oil and water galleries
-Magnaflux stress releive or cryogenic treatment
Fasteners
-Fitment of head studs
-Full ARP stud kit
-Oversize Valves and upgrade valvetrain
-5-angle valve job
-Oversize bores
-Install stroker kit[cleareneing and replacement of big end bearing if necessary for crank fitment]
-ALL reciprocating assemblies balanced
-Fix ported IM and extrudehone ports for optimum flow at a given RPM
-Cleanup of combustion chamber
-Valve seat, vlave giude replace
If anyone has anything else to add to this list...go ahead. smile.gif
Also...for those of you who just wallet tune...plan on blowing a crapload of money on these. No horsepower gain, for you n00bies thinking about doing this. Bulletproofing just ensures that you're prepared to go beyond what a stupid little turbo/super/nitrous kit can provide for you.
Oh yeah...cyro-freezing some of your parts helps. The process realigns molecules, creating a resistance from thermal breakdown. You typically see people either ceramic coat, cryo-freeze, or both. Though, doing both is drastically pricey, it doesn't really increase the longevity of the part to any signficant degree. So...either cryo-freeze or ceramic coat for thermal protection from wear/tear/breakdown.
Most the items on this list was put together by Mechanix_034 on HP.com:
Block and heads teardown and blueprinting
-Honing of cylingers and bore alignment using a torque plate
-Crank alignment
-Block clearancing
-Deburring of the block
-Trueing of deck
-Cleanup of oil and water galleries
-Weld close water jackets
-Micropolishing of bearing journals[all]
-Magnaflux stress releiving on the block and sonic test
Internal rework
-Change to full Crower counter crankshaft kit
-Crower Con-rods
-Cosworth pistons
-Full race bearings[high-load]
Head rework
-Trueing of deck
-Deburring of heads
-Cam journal alignment
-Micropolishing of bearing journals
-Cleanup of oil and water galleries
-Magnaflux stress releive or cryogenic treatment
Fasteners
-Fitment of head studs
-Full ARP stud kit
-Oversize Valves and upgrade valvetrain
-5-angle valve job
-Oversize bores
-Install stroker kit[cleareneing and replacement of big end bearing if necessary for crank fitment]
-ALL reciprocating assemblies balanced
-Fix ported IM and extrudehone ports for optimum flow at a given RPM
-Cleanup of combustion chamber
-Valve seat, vlave giude replace
If anyone has anything else to add to this list...go ahead. smile.gif
Also...for those of you who just wallet tune...plan on blowing a crapload of money on these. No horsepower gain, for you n00bies thinking about doing this. Bulletproofing just ensures that you're prepared to go beyond what a stupid little turbo/super/nitrous kit can provide for you.
Oh yeah...cyro-freezing some of your parts helps. The process realigns molecules, creating a resistance from thermal breakdown. You typically see people either ceramic coat, cryo-freeze, or both. Though, doing both is drastically pricey, it doesn't really increase the longevity of the part to any signficant degree. So...either cryo-freeze or ceramic coat for thermal protection from wear/tear/breakdown.
02-14-2005, 01:24 PM
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For even more detail you can go to Amazon.com and pick up :
"The Step-by-Step guide to Engine Blueprinting, Practical Methods for Racing and Rebuilding" by Rick Voegelin
I picked up my copy along with Supercharged and Maximum Boost.
"The Step-by-Step guide to Engine Blueprinting, Practical Methods for Racing and Rebuilding" by Rick Voegelin
I picked up my copy along with Supercharged and Maximum Boost.
02-14-2005, 01:28 PM
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do u know where to get some of this stuff im just interested in the apr stud kit do u know where 2 find it? (look at there web sight not listed for our cars)
i think..... thanks
i think..... thanks
02-14-2005, 02:57 PM
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ARP currently does not have a kit for the beta...
The only person i know to use ARP on his beta was RED (the krazy one) but his was a kit that was created from spare bolts that were left in the warehouse...
The only person i know to use ARP on his beta was RED (the krazy one) but his was a kit that was created from spare bolts that were left in the warehouse...
