This post covers the reassembly work on the engine spanning roughly from mid June to before Dragon Con . After Dragon Con, my plan was to focus 100% on preparing Overhaul for the 2022 BattleBots season . The goal was to run the engine on a stand of some sort by then.
I cleaned up both of the heads using the (actually) brass wire brush seen previously and kept it from rusting again with some WD-40, since my work environment isn’t exactly weatherproof and by June, it’s very warm and moist.
I did this in part because of decisions about what to do with the head bolts. Recall one of my wants was to put some “stage one” and bulletproofing mods in while I’m reassembling. Well, the OEM head bolts on these engines were allegedly only 140ksi yield, or barely Grade 8. Could I verify this? Nah, but usually you would get a set of ARP heat-treated, rolled-thread studs with 220+ksi yield strength so you can really crank them down.
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