The 510 Realm

With this show coming up I doubt I'll get everything done to the point of driving the car but want a semi complete engine at least in the bay. The game plan is to finish up and paint the bay, get the bottom end put together on the VE, and at least have the head bolted to the block with ITBs and a he...

icehouse wrote:I like the wire wheels the best on the drill. If you use the grinder wire wheel when the wires fling off they can stab into your skin really deep I've found.

Yeah I found that out the hard way haha

icehouse wrote:A wire wheel on the drill will work way better. Harbor Freight has packs of them for like 6 bucks. I buy 5 or 6 packs and it does an engine bay.

Yeah I evantually went to a wire wheel on the grinder, it was way better than the sanding disks haha

Going to try and kick this into high gear, first car show in my area is 70 days away and it's a big one! Car probably won't be running but pretty sure I can get the bay painted and the VE sitting in the bay looking pretty by then. Got most of the bay sanded with the disc, just need to hit the rad su...

Have an entire sr20ve short block left over after robbing the head/front cover off it, figure somone might want the pistons for a high compression NA build. The VE pistons in a DE block will give you 10.3:1 compression. Engine supposedly had 65,000km on it, no nasty surprises or warning signs as it ...

If i get the VE swapped intime and the bugs worked out, a cross country trip would be pretty cool! Would love to attend this

Thanks a bunch for the tips! I asked the buyer to send some photos of the undercarriage and there is some rust but it doesn't appear to be a huge amount. Here are those photos: https://flic.kr/s/aHskuDUsP3 Also, here is a link to the listing. Any additional feedback or comments are appreciated! Sup...

The site i use to host my pictures since photobucket went crazy (vgy.me) dropped their servers over the past few days and while being fixed caused google chrome to block the site. After a few fixes i can see my pictures again, just want to check if everyone else can haha (google chrome users may sti...

Did some rough engine bay work tonight with the drill and a sanding disk. Going to give the entire bay a pass with it before moving to some finer stuff by hand. Then can go about filling unwanted holes and smoothing everything out Don't forget about your upper and lower unibody channels. Being out ...

Did some rough engine bay work tonight with the drill and a sanding disk. Going to give the entire bay a pass with it before moving to some finer stuff by hand. Then can go about filling unwanted holes and smoothing everything out

Hey everyone! I won the bid for a nice project 510 on BaT today and am going to be flying to LA next week to finalize the deal. Any recommendations for checking out the car? Also, I will have a nice set of SSR MK3s for sale locally in LA if anyone is interested and looking for a set! Some nasty rus...

Picked up the engine from the shop! Went with a small .5mm overbore since the engine only had 60,000km. Cleaned up fairly well, they didn't mention how much they took off when the decked the engine/front cover but it looks like a fair amount, piston to valve clearance is going to be interesting with...

Finally got the engine dropped off at the shop, should be all finished up in the new year. Getting bored, hot tanked, and decked. Once that's done can go about measuring for bearings and start throwing it back together. Still on the fence about doing some headwork on the VE head, that'll get expensi...

Torque plate seems like seems like a gimmick to me. Such a simple parts for a ton of money. Wish I would have thought of it! Yeah for a chunk of aluminum with some holes machined into it the prices are pretty crazy. The SR guys swear by them though, say there's some pretty substantial cylinder dist...

Well progress has been slow lately because of work / other projects and because i kept telling myself there must be a better way to bore my block besides buying a $700 torque plate i'd use once. Eventually made a post on a 240sx forum discussing the necessity of using one for my application and had ...