Well......
The bottom end is done.
Today I started off with cleaning the rest of the pistons and shit...then when the #3 piston was nice and clean...I went to clean up the piston rings for it...and I noticed...that the top compression ring was missing about an inch of the ring
...holey GAP BATMAN!!!!
...so now I find out why the JDM Redtop engine was shipped to America.
Anyway's...I was just going to swap that one ring out with a Bluetop ring....and no luck...the ring was too wide...and too thick.
...and then I jumped online and thought about getting a set of new rings...then I remembered....It's a JDM high comp engine...so the chances of that ring even being in America are slim to none.
So I looked at the ring for the blue top..and looked around the garage a bit...then it dawned on me......I'll make a new ring.
....and I did. I took the coarse gringing wheel off the bench grinder, and put the new fine grit wheel on...and I went to town.....took about an hour to get it close to the size that I needed...and it some what fit in the piston grooves...but not perfect enough. So I looked out in the trash area and found a mirror that the landlord was throwing away..so I grabbed it, cleaned it up, taped some 400 grit sand paper to it...and went to town sanding the ring down.
....After 3 hours of sanding, drinking beer, post whoreing, smoking ciggs, listening to Hoobistank...or what ever their name is...while losing my fingertips.....I finally had the perfect ring. B) ..I slapped it in the cylinder to check the groove clearance...and it was good....so then I started back to the project at hand, and finished the last piston...and slapped it all together......... And the crank and pistons all move as they need to be....and I feel the break in for this engine will only be about 100 miles...and it's good. B)
Next is to clean up the oil pan, the splash gaurd, install the rear main seal, the oil pump, and slap that all together...and then I can pull the old engine out and rape the motor mounts...and decide what I want to do with them......I do have a plan to make them a little stiffer...hehe.
The car should be on the road very soon...and to some events this month.
On a side note....a kid is sending me his Zenki Axels...and I'm going to yank my Kouki axels and ship them to him....and you know what that means......
The TRD Two-Way LSD can go on the car.....Whooohooo.