2.3 MOTOR BUILD
A little insight of what's been going on with "Matt Dennison" aka "o-townFLA" or simply known as "Matt"...
All intentions were to go to a track day and instruct. Seeing everyone blast around the track or me sitting in the passenger seat wasn't necessarily*boring but the competitiveness in me wanted to be in the driver seat. So without fully going over the car I hit the "time attack" session... Bad idea...*
After the (2) TA session my car had a little more valve train noise than usual. Trying to figure out the noise at the track with a marauder of people you can only imagine all the inputs and ideas of what might be wrong. So while at the track we all finalized that we couldn't really determine what was wrong. Other than the new noise and that I was super low oil...
So I dropped the car off at Road Race Engineering to have their assistance. Within a few hours we have found the problem. A motor killing spun bearing...
So the next question was what to build, how strong will the build need to be and what all needs to replaced...
So the final build would be the following with a few new extras:
Jacks Transmission 2.3 Stroker*
- Wiseco pistons
- Manley H-beams
- AMS oil pan w/ scrapper
Jacks Transmission rebuilt head
- Kiggly HLA*
- Cosworth M3 cams 280/272
Jacks Transmission rebuilt tranny
Front Mount Earl's oil cooler
I've always been weary of running E85 due to its inconsistencies. So I've always ran 100 octane making a decent 450/400 at 26psi. With this build I decided to bump up to E85 but would do it right...
- ZEITRONIX Ethanol Content Analyzer
- Walbro 400lph*
- FIC 2150cc injectors *
- Fuel Lab Fuel Pressure Regulator*
My current turbo setup is the cast HAFE manifold with a newly released GTX3076R bolted on.*
Well the blessed people at Road Race Engineering to include Mike, Rossy, Honda, Sam, Lod, Chris, Robert, Matt, Art, Ruben, Lydia, Gus, Rick and Scott have been a tremendous help and I will forever be in debt to them...!!!
Thank you to those that have helped pave the way to the podium for me
- Robi @ RobiSpec
- Yukio @ Turbo By Garrett
- Scott @ ACT
- Chris @ KW Suspension
- Jack and Chris @ Jacks Transmission
- Ziggy @
- the boys @ MAP
- Abby @ mil.spec
- GoPro
- SPY optics
- God @ awesome...!
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