Hey, give us some pics of the ports on the cylinder head.

looks good. nice clean pistons too, should go nicely once run in.

i like the garage set up too.

Well picked up the new rings and some other bits and pieces today. The crank and rods are now assembled and i bolted on the head but can't go much further until i get the cam back from being spruced up...

i want some pics of the wheels and the car, front 1/4 and rear 1/4 shots. Nice and arty please.

Unfortunately the new rings didn't come in today so i did some engine bay cleaning. I also decided to take a few camshafts down to clive cams - one to get ground to the 140 and the other (the 169) to be freshened up and ground to give higher lift, effectively making it a more aggressive but still streetable cam. They are also doing 2 sets of cam followers for me. So effectively the engine will now hopefully be running by next weekend with a now rebuilt a15 and a slightly bigger cam.

pics when there are some worth taking!

haha, sorry its been in a state of disarray for the last little while it's slowly getting back there tho.

ok i have stripped a spare a15 bottom end down and honed the block, cleaned the bejeezus out of it (kero, degreaser, shotch brite the bores crc etc etc) and its half way assembled. I now remember the thing about rebuilding engines - its not particularly hard to do but boy is there a lot of cleaning and meticulous scrubbing involved!

The crank and cam have been installed but i came across a small hurdle when installing the pistons and rods... the rings don't fit! the top comp ring is too thick for the piston i have so its back to the shop tomorrow.

So far its just a standard rebuilt a15 honed cleaned with new rings bearings and a gasket kit. Its getting the wade 30/70 cam and the shaved standard h89 head (that has been checked over, hot tanked valves cleaned up and surface ground) it'll be interesting to see if the extra cubes make any noticable difference. the engine will be for sale as soon as i can get around to rebuilding the a14 that was in there with all the goodies i have aquired :)

pics of the mobile will come soon but here are some engine bits shots from my little garage :)

For crying out loud man we need pictures of this wee vessel!

I thought it was but if I supply the pistons (about 180 a set) they do the full sleeving with 83mm sleeves supplied all square to the crankshaft and honed for $500 at footscray engine reconditioning.
http://www.ferco.com.au/
I just checked again on the phone & will do it with 81mm sleeves supplied for $300 !!!!
Quoted from Steve for an a10, a12 or any a series with either 79,80 or 81mm sleeves.
He can work out the offset required with sonic testing and if grouting is needed he will have to send it out as they dont do it in house but he said he can sonic tested for free to check all tolerances which is more than fair.
I was interested in taking my a10 to 79mm using 1mm oversized mazda PISTON ASSEMBLY KIT 4KRY8041(1) 31.40 c-c and 20.000 pins but need Hayabusa standard conrods with 20mm G/pins
and a10 length 119.5mm from bike wreckers. They are perhaps a little narrower than A10 rods
which is the issue. big end and small end width 20.975mm and 38mm crankpins.
The other option is 4af or 4afe pistons with 18mm g/pins will fit a10 rod with enlarging.
After talking to my buddy with the idea of boosting an a10 I must admit I love the stock gearing with 59mm stroke it just works.

thats crazy mans talk. plus machining, pistons, rods etc etc would surely be more than that. it'd cost me $300 just to overbore it by 20 thou!

Could dust accumulation around firewall on the last 2 cylinder area
at high rpm caused severe sand blasting and friction melt?
Thats if you had no filtration of course.

If you had $700 from an uncles engagement present you could go full offset
81mm sleeves, stock 4age or 7afe pistons 81x77 = 1587cc better freeway revs
than 82mm stroke.