Today after class I did the finishing touches to the head so I could send it off to the machine shop in the morning. I smoothed out the radius and chamfered the edges where I took material out to clearance the cams and just overall cleaned up the dremel marks. I also checked each guide with a bucket lubed in lucas oil to see if there were any areas that would catch or bind up and nothing of the sort. It all moved smoothly. It's perfect now and I'm very happy at how well I did seeing as it was my first time to do such a job.
Exhaust side
Intake side
I know have all the valvetrain parts and the head all nicely packaged and boxed up ready to take to the machine shop tomorrow morning. Pretty anxious to get that back!
Next up was the block, it was freshly rebuilt last fall for me by Matt and he did a hell of a job building me a bad ass built 5s bottom end so nothing needed addressed internally other than cleaning the tops of the pistons which they didn't need much at all thanks to the methanol I ran.
Also, the cross-hatching is still very present and there is absolutely no scoring in any of the cylinder walls. There shouldn't be as the bottom end only has ~5000 miles. I also wanted to change the color of the block to blue cause well, that's the theme and looks great. It's going to look kick ass once I get the moroso pan fitted, head on, turbo hung etc.
Pistons all clean and shiny
Block painted with high heat ceramic paint and high heat ceramic clear coat, that ____ is never coming off on it's own. hah The oil pan, oil pump and dip stick tube are all being replaced so that's why I left them on for "Masking". That oil pump on there is a ATS HV oil pump and is for sale if anyone is interested for $100. PM me for details.
