Okay, sorry it has been awhile. I'm a grad student and this fall quarter was nuts, but only 4 classes (20 hours) stand between me and my masters.
I'm on break, so back to work on this lump
I got the pistons and the bearings coated by Swaintech. Piston has goldcoat on the crown and pc9 on the skirt. Sorry I did not take a pick of the bearings, but it is just a low friction coating looks a lot like the piston skirt
I got ARP mainstuds I used the number on here for the 1.6 and they fit. 204-5402 is the number if anyone needs it
I used the Craftsman universal spring compressor to get these guys in. It was really pretty easy. Rings gaps are spaced 120º apart as per the Bentley spec.
I really love the color combo of the gold coat and the gray block paint.
Next I dropped in the bearings and the 1Z crank and bolted it up. I torqued the mains to the bentley spec first and then brought them up to the 60 ft.lbs ARP specs
I found out that the ARP connecting rod bolts I ordered (104-6002) do not fit. They apparently only fit the 1.6 engines. After much correspondence with the ARP tech I was still unable to get a good number for the AAZ
The problem is that the AAZ bolt threads into the connecting rod itself. It DOES NOT have a separate nut and stud.
What did work surprisingly is ALH connecting rod bolts. the spec is M8x1.0x45 (really more like 43mm) the ALH is only threaded for the last 13mm or so and the bolts I took out were threaded for 32mm, also the dowel on the ALH bolt is much closer to the threads. However they fit and torqued up nicely (# on the bolt is 028 105 425C).
Wow it feels good to rotate a freshly assembled engine doesn't it? I can't wait to hear it roar to life for the first time.
so next step is piston deck protrusion. Many people have shared their rigs for getting this number so I will share mine.
It is my dial gauge for IP timing with a nut as a spacer threaded into some aluminum channel with some 1/2" washers epoxied to them. Nice huh?
Anyway I zeroed it on the deck and then I spun it around a few times and took measurements on all the pistons mostly I got .030" but a couple times I got .032" either way that is well within the 1 notch range. It had a 3 notch on it before, but it was pretty shoddy looking anyway. most of the black paint or coating or whatever had peeled off needless to say it did not inspire confidence. So I ordered a 1 notch Victor Reinz from Autohaus AZ and priority shipped it Hopefully it will get here Thursday or Friday. if nothing goes awry I might be putting it in this weekend.
A few post's ago I mentioned that the flange on my downpipe from TT was wrong. I had considered sending it back to them, but the more I thought about it, it just seemed easier to fix it myself. All I had to do was drill 2 more holes. I think it will work for a K03 and a K14 now
here it is bolted up. I don't think it looks too bad
I started sorting things out and figuring out which bolt goes where while I wait for the headgasket (zylinderkopfdichtung I wish I got to use that word more often). I also soaked the wastegate adjustment screw in PB for awhile and got it free. I went ahead and screwed it all the way in.
I am going to see how that works and if I don't like it I will spend a few hundred on a boost controller. So here it is as it sits
I hope to have more by the end of the week.