09-26-2009, 09:28 PM
D_Eclipse9916 Wrote:PS- Keep the Zenki front end, all of my drifting friends thought it was cool to go the kouki, I personally love the zenki better.
haha. thanks man. me too actually. The kouki gets so overplayed, and plus, ends up costing more to buy a kouki.
ScottyB Wrote:what do you use to do the valve lapping?
i watched your drifting video (might have been your intro thread) and you really slide it around nice. great camera angle too. do you clutch kick to initiate some of that or are you just sawing the wheel? hard to tell from the camera view.
I hand lapped them with that little wooden tool with suction cups each end of it shown in the picture next to all the valves laid out. Just kinda flip the head over, put the plunger thing on the valve when the valve is through the valve guide, and put on this lubricant. Don't know the name of it, but it's gritty and silver. Lubricant goes around the edges of the valve. And you spin kinda like you're trying to start a fire with wood by hand, lifting up about every other turn to make sure lube gets placed in the mating surface. It's real basic, and if you youtube it, there's some videos on "how to"...
about the video... thanks! Really, it's a total mix of techniques. E-brake sometimes get used, sometimes feint it into the turn, sometimes ebrake and clutch kick together, sometimes just clutch kick. Typically, I end up using clutch kicks more to keep the drift going. On the video of the Pistol Grip, the very last turn is a good example where I simply lacked on power and needed to clutch kick. You can't hear it as well as when you're in the car, but I am 100% on the throttle pretty much through that whole run, and when I'm full on the throttle and going around a long turn and begin to lose angle because of lack of power, I kick the clutch a couple times to upset the balance some more.
Steve85 Wrote:Were you able to get away with just a hone or did they they have to open up the bore a little? It looks the material from the ring lands could have torn up the walls pretty good. Plus, adding a few extra cubes never hurts while you're in there.
Actually ya, the block measured out okay and so I just went with the hone. Bore would've been an extra 200-300 bucks
hock: and since I didnt need it, I stuck with the hone. The ring lands that were broken off were held together almost perfectly by the rings, and only came apart with those sharp edges once I pulled the rings off. hah. that's when I found out I had broken pistons when I was going to stick on the new rings. I was like "NOOO!!! Agh, just ANOTHER part I have to buy"navin Wrote:Any tips on painting floorboards? Did you sand, primer, paint?
Well man when I took out the sound deadening, I ended up grinding down to metal past the deadening, and primered from there, and then painted. Actually started silver, and recently did over top the silver with white.
But of course, with any painting, please cover EVERYTHING well. ha. don't end up with slightly tinted with white console like me! ha. it was covered, but not sealed very well