Pointless thread here, but oh well...

So I rebuilt and ported my first motor recently. Got it in and all hooked up tonight and checked everything, did the rebuild startup procedures with priming the oil and fuel, moment of truth came and it fired right up on the first try! I was very happy with that since I used RA seals in my used housings. No leaks, no problems, held its idle pretty well after about 20 minutes or so of idling in my driveway, and amazingly the smoke pretty much disappeared after about 15 minutes and is almost non-existent now after about 30 minutes of idle and 20 minutes of driving.

Just so happy about this, had to post

Anyways... coolest thing was when it was first idling at 2k I was cleaning up the garage and look over and noticed tiny flames way back inside the exhaust, never had flames before at all with no emissions, TB mod, etc. Was confused to see this, but then again it was also kinda cool. The exhaust porting with no diffusers and ported intakes probably helped it a bit

 

Congrats on the successful rebuild, and the pointless thread

 

awesome! so how hard was it? Im thinking of doing it too!

 

No prob, I do my best

 

Not bad at all, really just followed the atkins video, bought all the things I felt I needed seperately from atkins and got the seals/springs from rotary aviation and slapped it together. Did some porting to, also first time, and all went well.

 

how are the solid motor mounts?

 

^ since this is a pointless thread, you have the coolest avitars, any full pics of that?

 

si!

your PM is on its way..

 

that's awesome. I might need your local experience sometime, I'll be ripping into my TII to rebuild it in the next week or so... Congratulations!

 

Honestly, not a problem at all! So far I don't notice a difference while driving from stock, weird? Also, I discovered that one of my stock motor mounts was broken when I was putting the engine back in haha. But yah, not a big deal at all. Soon I'll be putting in my solid tranny mounts too to go along with the solid diff/motor ones.

 

Thanks

It was a great learning experience, not as bad as I thought it'd be at all either.

 

Good to hear man... I just finished putting mine in a few hours ago. Once my block off plate kit gets here i'll slap em on and get it running.

 

Yea that is good to hear. If I did the same thing I'd share my success with the forum! The real question is how well you did the job tho we'll see in the next 5000km's heh..

 

Congrats! I'd like to do one myself eventually, but I want to find a motor I'm not using and don't care about accidently screwing up beyond repair. After all, it's never good for a surgeon to practice on his own brain...