Race Car V4.0 - Ground up

[D_Eclipse9916]

The past couple weeks have been fairly quiet on this car. Between the holidays with my family in town every 2 weeks and my cage builder being pretty busy, not much progress has been made.

Instead I took on a bit of work with the motor. I wanted to take off the valve cover to inspect for any damage. There was none under visual inspection and the motor looks to be in absolutely fantastic shape. Quick valve adjustment and onto the VANOS.


Slowly (and I mean slowly like 15 minutes at a time over the past 2 weeks) I have been rebuilding the VANOS. This just includes taking it apart and putting in new seals and carefully seating everything. I also added a Besian Tools drilled oil pump disc to hopefully improve reliability. I then went through and replaced all the cam bolts, and reassembled the top of the motor. Next step is to pull the oil pan, another visual inspection, and install rod bearings and crankscraper.