
A kindly donated spare 4e-fte engine, so this could be modified whilst my car was still on the road. I wasted no time, the head was sent away to have work done, as was the throttle body, inlet manifold, block and rocker cover.
Here are the results of that labour, check this headwork out! I reassembled the head with the Cruise uprated valve springs to take higher revs safely.






The head was port-matched to the inlet manifold which was also ported and polished, then sparyed silver by me.

Attatched to that was the Headtune modified throttle body, which now went perfectly flat, had smoothed down bolts and was chemically cleaned and polished to allow maximum airflow.



This was all connected together with new gaskets and an Attain KSP Hi-Throttle, ok its probably just cos its blue but I did want one ever since I saw it in Hyper Rev, thanks RHD for getting them re-made!

The block was fitted with Pauter forged rods and 74.5mm (+0.5mm oversized forged Ross pistons), so all in all was a good package, here are the development pics and the finished assembled engine (minus sump and few other bits still on Jeff).


I quickly painted it matt-black and prepared for assembly




Here is the rocker cover, powdercoated in anthracite matte, this will go on last though, so as not to damage it!

In the meantime my ORC309 clutch had arrived, all I need now is an LSD oh and a turbo kit to run this setup...
...will this do?


A K24 with a Secret Sport manifold and a soon to be added Tial wastegate (black the blue one was sold on).
Again, quickly stripped and repainted with an EGT sensor in the exhuast housing for my Defi gauge

We also heatwrapped the mani and downpipe to keep engine tempertaures down




My apologies for this but...that about wraps up this update, next time got a few more preparatory additions before the swap!
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