In the meantime, I'm continuing on with checking clearances on internal components and cleaning small parts.


-The oil pump and its pressure relief valve all checked within spec

-I set up my hypersonic cleaner with some Orange Zep and got to cleaning. It has an internal heater that gets the solution pretty darned hot, which helps the Zep attack the grime and crud. I don't let it dunk for longer than 15 minutes

-One of my buddies printed the shim tool, and it came out perfect. He dialed in the neck to 17mm on the nose and it fits the HLA bores perfectly.



I'll likely be going with the dual rocker guide method of shimming rather than using the flat shims.

-Another little surprise was that the HLAs look to be the revised part with the large input hole and small relief hole. These should hold pressure better and keep the lifter pumped up. I'll know better once I get the motor fired up and if that damned lifter noise comes back


-The original 370cc injectors

-I originally was going to use Tomei 740cc injectors, but those have been long discontinued. I saw ConceptZ had stock on their site and took a gamble and ordered a set. Well, that gamble was a bust as the site had erroneously showed stock. Nick at CZP was cool and hooked me up with a set of Nismo 740ccs.
The bore clearances all look okay. I checked the specs on each bore and they're all at 86.00mm right now. The CP pistons have a 0.089mm to 0.076m clearance spec to the bore. Since my cylinders are all at 86.00mm, that means each piston needs to measure between 85.911mm and 85.924mm. All of my pistons fell within this range.

-I also picked up an inexpensive scale that goes out to a hundredth a gram to weigh my rods, pistons, and other bits of reciprocating mass

-Without doing any grinding or lapping of the rods and pistons, I was able to get the assemblies paired up to within 0.9g of each other. To keep it all straight while it's still stored away, I've marked each ring pack and put a label on each wrist pin bag. The pistons will stay in their foam packaging, but I have my notes aligned to show which quadrant is which.





































































































