Worked a little on the stressplate the other day:


First up to test this plate is a CA18 filled 50% with concrete, RB26 head bolts and getting bored to 83,5mm.
How are yours coming along Float?
I might hold you to that one daydatso wrote:Tommey if you come to Australia to visit you have a place to stay as long as you bring that billet head plate so I can bore and hone my block- just dont use Malaysian airlines
Glad to hear you are not using ACL, its worth the wait to get OEM bearings.float_6969 wrote:Any updates? I dropped my block, HG, and torque plate off at the machine shop yesterday. I also picked up my graded Nissan bearings. They screwed up my rod bearings though. I got 4 bearing halves instead of 4 complete bearings, so I had to order more.
the cd20 FCW crank should be a different story to the NFCW ca18de crank.float_6969 wrote:I also discovered something interesting about my motor. If I move the rods over one spot (4 to 3, 3 to 2, 2 to 1, 1 to 4) The clearances (without bearings) are all within a half a ten-thousandth of each other. I could leave the rods alone and get different grade bearings, or move them and get one grade, so that's what I'm doing. Oddly enough, the #3 rod was the one with the largest bore in the rod and the smallest journal diameter, combining to give the largest clearance. This is also the rod that has had the most bearing damage every time I've taken the motor apart.