Well some of you may have seen or heard or my N/A ld9 build.
After a little less than a year shes running again needs a tune.
Here is the build list......
Custom Cold Air Intake with K&N Filter Made By Me
Turbo Tech Solid Trans Mounts
Car Customs Upper & Lower Motor Mounts
Bill's & Stan's Header Ceramic Coated
2.3l Quad 56mm T/B
Ported HO Intake Manifold Ported Sandblasted By Me
Ford Brown Top Injectors
Custom Down Pipe Made by me 2.5"
2.5" Custom Exhaust Made By Me
Manifold Adaptor Plate Ported To Match Head
Stage 2 JBP LD9 Cams
Ported & Polished 2.4l Cyl Head Ported By Me
Stainless Steel Polished Valves Stock sized
HO Valve Springs
HO Valve Retainers
2.4l LD9 Keepers
Felpro Head Gasket Set
Blocks Oil Passages Bored
Cyl Bored .020 Over
Wiseco 10.5:1 Comp Pistons
Eagle H Beam Rods
2.3l Oil Pump Conv
Modded 2.4l Oil Pan Built By Me
Lightened Crank Pulley
Lightened Fidanza 8lb Flywheel
Stage 3+ Clutch & Pressure Plate
Team Green Lsd Insert
ARP Main Studs
Balanced Rotating Assembly
HPtuner.
I will get videos tomorrow but for now pic will have to do.
also over the winter I put 2006 gto seats in the cav.
Engine build.
exhaust i made along with the down pipe
me
timing for valve clearance.
Professional way of moving an engine
Car getting into battle posicion
The car is pretty lopy it will idle but not good it die every once in a while.
we do have a small oil leak we need to fix nothing big.
Oil pressure at idle is about 60 psi
A big thanks to,,
Z Machine-Loren Zevenbergen for his awesome work on the 2.3l swap and bottom end
Jesse Ludwig (BMXLudwig) on here for helping drop the engine and all the other random engine work thanks Jesse
I also what to Thank J-body if it wasn't for this site this car would never be where it is today.
Also a Thanks to any one i my have forgotten
Paul Tjepkes.
that looks so hot, nice work.
congrats. I'm sure your excited to get it tuned and see some dyno numbers.
Congrats buddy! Looks great, those pistons look crazy.
" To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous. "
DOHC 2.4 + All that = POWER!!!
I want to see the rolling road numbers too!
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We all drive in a yellow Cavalier...
Paul Tjepkes (N/A MADNESS) wrote:A big thanks to,
Z Machine-Loren Zevenbergen for his awesome work on the 2.3l swap and bottom end
Jesse Ludwig (BMXLudwig) on here for helping drop the engine and all the other random engine work thanks Jesse
Brad Wheeler (z yaaaa) on here for gettin me a new block to work with
I also what to Thank J-body if it wasn't for this site this car would never be where it is today.
hahahaa, yes PAUL... you forgot me
great job man, i cant wait to drive it
can anybody believe this little shiit is only 17? hahahaha
dang dude, wish i could do all that at 17. looks real nice, cant wait to see it run!.....btw, fix your muffler
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muffler was just hanging there
Looking good, good luck with it.
- 93 mph in the 1/8 mile
Member of J-Body Of Michigan.
nice work lookin good
I'm curious about the header let me know how you like it. I'm going to be running a non-sequential header as well but with a straighter exhaust flow to hopefully pick up some horses. I know the eco and the 2.4 are fundamentally different, but they have a lot of similarities
you going to make it out to GLD??
So this is how valve clearance is done?
~2014 New Z under the knife, same heart different body~
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WHITECAVY no more
2012 numbers - 4SPD
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328 HP
306 TQ
yes sir you put the clay on the piston put the head on time it take it back apart and cut the clay in half then measure the thickness you should clear by 40-60 thous i have 80 thous
Oh ok, thanks.. Didnt know that.. I may try to do this when I get my head back this week.
~2014 New Z under the knife, same heart different body~
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WHITECAVY no more
2012 numbers - 4SPD AUTOMATIC!!
328 HP
306 TQ
Bout time! cant wait for video and slips...
Cant wait to see what this bad boy Tuned puts down on a dyno!!!
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'04 GTO 305whp
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Brian Phone # come on i need to talk to you or at least your msn.
looks good paul !! congrats man, can't wait to see this thing tuned and producing
When I step on the gas, I want people to think the world is coming to an end! - Homer J. Simpson
Looks very mean, Can't wait to hear it blast the strip.
I just thought I would mention that THERE IS A VIDEO.....
Keep in mind that this is a cold startup, and the engine is still bran spakin' new with less than 20 miles on it. The lifter tick is horribly loud in the video, and it isn't that bad in real life. We have her feeding on a tank of 93 octane and it appears to be running a tad rich according to the plugs and a/f guage. The pyrometer levels off around 1200 degrees when its warm (only 400 degrees in one video, and 900 in the other) , and the oil pressure is around 65 psi at idle when warm (75 on the cold startup). We just got a muffler on it today, so we might be nice and take some out of car videos. But here are the first video's of her
This is pauls photobucket album, the videos are right there!
http://s136.photobucket.com/albums/q162/paultjepkes/
Jesse iam still kinda worryed about the tick/knock Jesse if you think back to when we were installing the windage tray the bolt one or the rods was tapping the windage tray we bent it out of the way but was still a close fit it could be that or the lifters.
lifters were brand new jbp abd the cam was slightly useed jbp stage 2 iam having Loren Z machine look at it tonight so we'll see what he thinks.
I would be getting the cams off and getting into the valvetrain and not risking running it anymore if it's as serious as you think. I hope your towing it to the shop.
there coming to my house.
Pshhhhh stop being paranoid. Its not like it was expensive or anything......
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Okay maybe it was expensive!
Tom and I talked a tad bit and he brought up the possiblity of it being the oil we are using. Currently we have Rotella T 15w-40 in the car. This was recommended by Loren from Z Machine. He uses that oil in their race cars and such. The lifters were designed for 5w-30 oil probably. Does anybody else thing that this noise could be caused by too thick of an oil?
