The Sr20/Sr22vet thread

[peglio]

Originally Posted by Kaisen

I had to hammer my wheel well just a little as the inlet pipe is touching it. But other than that not much issues. What's your insta?

Sounds like I will have some issues then ha ha will have to see when the engine is in all mocked up !
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[RalliartRsX]

Nice to see some activity!

I am going to be redoing the exhaust and putting together the intercooler piping over the next few days. Hope to drop the radiator in, locate a small oil leak, figure out the wastegate actuator mount and hopefully get her fired up again and coolant bled. Off to bleeding the clutch/brakes and then looming the wiring and putting the interior back in.

Excited for this!

Originally Posted by Kaisen

I dont have any videos, but I have some pictures hehe. Engine bay is not the fanciest but Im not doing it for show, so heck it. I can move off the lights decently enough.

https://ibb.co/GFYhkQn
https://ibb.co/QJYNG9m

Have an insta to follow your build??

[d9m13n]

Originally Posted by RalliartRsX

Nice to see some activity!

I am going to be redoing the exhaust and putting together the intercooler piping over the next few days. Hope to drop the radiator in, locate a small oil leak, figure out the wastegate actuator mount and hopefully get her fired up again and coolant bled. Off to bleeding the clutch/brakes and then looming the wiring and putting the interior back in.

Excited for this!



Have an insta to follow your build??

Share some pics (or your IG)! I want to see more of your setup and see what Im in for when my block gets back.
Glad to see a lot of people in here with EFR's, hoping to see some graphs and results in this thread soon from you all.
I'm @after_hours13, trying to start documenting my build after having started it a long while ago.. Should be making a lot of progress very soon

[RalliartRsX]

Oh I have documentation. Full excel spreadsheet (which needs updating I had to auto recover several months back and was disgusted by how much I spent hahaha!), word document, wiring diagrams, ecu pinouts, valve shim clearance, part numbers, etc etc. hahahaha!

Anyways, boost_lee_145. Not much to see as I only divulged the build to a select few (couldn't be bothered with keyboard warriors and their inherent lack of creativity and knowledge......yeah, I should be in the grump old man thread hahaha!)

PM whatever questions you had in mind. I think we will have similar setups at the end of the day. My tune is scheduled for Aug 23rd.....which sucks as my tuner simply had no open slots in July

[Kaisen]

Originally Posted by RalliartRsX

Nice to see some activity!

I am going to be redoing the exhaust and putting together the intercooler piping over the next few days. Hope to drop the radiator in, locate a small oil leak, figure out the wastegate actuator mount and hopefully get her fired up again and coolant bled. Off to bleeding the clutch/brakes and then looming the wiring and putting the interior back in.

Excited for this!



Have an insta to follow your build??

Mine is kaiisen. But I dont have much stuff of my car to post though since everything is done already haha

[d9m13n]

Pretty good deal on a decent conservative drop in setup on Facebook right now for anyone considering going VET but hasn’t started yet

[d9m13n]

Anybody parting out their setup, Im tentatively looking for a built bottom end done to vet specs. Dont need anything else, just the block. PM me if you have or know of one.

[RalliartRsX]

Did Tim sell his?? WHat happened to your block at the machine shop??

I will get in contact with Juan. He may have exactly what you need

[240KA]

[bardabe]

Originally Posted by d9m13n

Anybody parting out their setup, Im tentatively looking for a built bottom end done to vet specs. Dont need anything else, just the block. PM me if you have or know of one.

I’ve been selling my VVL setup for a while now. Steve bought the cylinder head and all the TARKS parts. I Still have a brand new block with all parts ready to assemble for the right buyer.

[bardabe]

Originally Posted by RalliartRsX

Did Tim sell his?? WHat happened to your block at the machine shop??

I will get in contact with Juan. He may have exactly what you need

😘 you the man! (Steve also hit me up about this. Ya’ll the MVP’s )

[d9m13n]

Juan’s setup is ideally what I’d like to run, but unfortunately I’m not looking for another block I’ll have to have assembled.

My machine shop is overloaded with work and probably will not have my block back in 2 months or so. I have mostly everything I need to throw together my engine bay minus the block, but I can’t make any progress on designing/fabricating my v mount or my exhaust, or just situating parts in general until I have my engine in. I could have the car complete within that 2 month span if I could find a used block, already assembled to rwd vet specs and have it here within a few days. Then I have the bonus of having a spare assembled fresh block on the shelf should anything bad happen.

Contacted the guy on Facebook who’s ad I actually posted above, however his pistons don’t have valve reliefs and won’t work with my n1 cams. Can anyone tell me whether I could run p11 cams with a thicker headgasket and be okay? The only variable would be that his head is p11 and mine is p12, not sure if that changes valve clearances at all (I don’t believe so, but I figured you guys would have more insight)

[bardabe]

Originally Posted by d9m13n

Juan’s setup is ideally what I’d like to run, but unfortunately I’m not looking for another block I’ll have to have assembled.

My machine shop is overloaded with work and probably will not have my block back in 2 months or so. I have mostly everything I need to throw together my engine bay minus the block, but I can’t make any progress on designing/fabricating my v mount or my exhaust, or just situating parts in general until I have my engine in. I could have the car complete within that 2 month span if I could find a used block, already assembled to rwd vet specs and have it here within a few days. Then I have the bonus of having a spare assembled fresh block on the shelf should anything bad happen.

Contacted the guy on Facebook who’s ad I actually posted above, however his pistons don’t have valve reliefs and won’t work with my n1 cams. Can anyone tell me whether I could run p11 cams with a thicker headgasket and be okay? The only variable would be that his head is p11 and mine is p12, not sure if that changes valve clearances at all (I don’t believe so, but I figured you guys would have more insight)

Shoot me a PM I can assemble it for you for a fee. I just need to know all the details on your setup and planes use so we can know the limitations

[RalliartRsX]

Originally Posted by d9m13n

Juan’s setup is ideally what I’d like to run, but unfortunately I’m not looking for another block I’ll have to have assembled.

My machine shop is overloaded with work and probably will not have my block back in 2 months or so. I have mostly everything I need to throw together my engine bay minus the block, but I can’t make any progress on designing/fabricating my v mount or my exhaust, or just situating parts in general until I have my engine in. I could have the car complete within that 2 month span if I could find a used block, already assembled to rwd vet specs and have it here within a few days. Then I have the bonus of having a spare assembled fresh block on the shelf should anything bad happen.

Contacted the guy on Facebook who’s ad I actually posted above, however his pistons don’t have valve reliefs and won’t work with my n1 cams. Can anyone tell me whether I could run p11 cams with a thicker headgasket and be okay? The only variable would be that his head is p11 and mine is p12, not sure if that changes valve clearances at all (I don’t believe so, but I figured you guys would have more insight)

Juan) Have Ob-Juan Vargas build your that block

Juan-a) Profit!

dos) You could get away with a thicker head gasket, yes. However, how thick is the real question and in return, that will also drop your compression ratio. The drop is not insignificant either. I have the calculation somewhere around here if you need.

3) P11 or P12 head will have the same Valve clearances. There is a difference in head casting, however, there is no effect on valve design and actuation.

[RZRSHARP_240SX]

I run N1 cams without valve reliefs without issues. I used a thicker head gasket to help.

[RalliartRsX]

So, there is a chance, the rear oil drain on the block that was blocked off may be leaking......

Engine was machined a year ago and assembled with the plug, so no chance in even talking to them. Either way, the question is, any way to seal this up without having to tear the block down?? Below is the drain I am referring to. I will know for sure during the next startup if its indeed leaking so planning for the worse . Mind you, this is the first startup since the engine was assembled late last year.

[S13VE]

All you can really do is remove the head, fix the leak and put the head back on. Well, technically you also put some nasty stop leak stuff in it, but the risk to reward reatio is poor.

I've removed a CA head with both manfiolds attached, but in the end I questioned if it saved me any time. My issue was more damaged exhaust studs stopped me getting the manifold off to change a head gasket.

As an aside, I only just remembered this thread because I am only just now sending all my gear off to be built 0_0

[RalliartRsX]

........not an answer I anted, but one I expected none the less. Dyno tune is on Aug 23rd so this may throw a wrench in those plans

[brndck]

Originally Posted by RalliartRsX

........not an answer I anted, but one I expected none the less. Dyno tune is on Aug 23rd so this may throw a wrench in those plans

are the threads damaged? does the plug just need some Teflon tape to seal?

[S13VE]

I was planning on using Taarks push in plug, what did you use?

https://www.efisolutions.com.au/oil-...onversion-sr20

[RalliartRsX]

Originally Posted by S13VE

I was planning on using Taarks push in plug, what did you use?

https://www.efisolutions.com.au/oil-...onversion-sr20

I actually picked up a similar plug recently. However, the current item is threaded and fitted with a M16 I think, plug

Originally Posted by brndck

are the threads damaged? does the plug just need some Teflon tape to seal?

So not sure. I doubt the machine shop used Teflon tape. If they did, then I am up a creek as that will require a full block teardown and taking to machine shop to get sorted

[S13VE]

The seal I linked is the same thing Mazworx use, builder says he has never had an issue with those and they are cheap. Not sure if you can go that way now though.

Fingers crossed for you.

[RalliartRsX]

Don't think so. The hole is now threaded and a press seal via a rubber o ring will get destroyed via the first thread lol.

We will see. I am (finally) pouring distilled water to do a warm up and to check for leaks. Fingers crossed indeed!

[S13VE]

Why do you think it's leaking if you're only just now starting it to do a leak check?

[RalliartRsX]

I did a few initial start ups before to set the taarks CAS and a few other items

Either way, did a longer term startup tonight. So far, it seems the drain plug wasn't leaking and it was from a prior leak when I replaced the valve cover gasket

1) I did find a leak in one of the oil cooler AN fittings
2) The dipstick tubing was not fully seated, so need to reseat and bolt down the tube

So a bit of a relief

[S13VE]

Big relief.

I literally just dropped my gear off at the freight depot.

Let the stress begin.

[RalliartRsX]

P.S man is the VE a loud engine lol. Lots of mechanical noise from the valvetrain (clearance is exactly as stated in the FSM as I shimmed the head 4 times in total lol)

Also just realized I had the valve cover vent capped off, so I am sure there was a ton of crank case pressure

[S13VE]

When do you hit the dyno?

[RalliartRsX]

Aug 23rd. I hope (fingers crossed) to have this drivable by some time next week (fix leaks, clean up base map, do home alignment, bleed clutch and brake and take it for a spin around the block)

[S13VE]

Sorry you did mention that, good luck.