The Jolly Green Giant...aka the Recycled Rig

Hltoppr

El Gringo Spectacular!
I have a "new" booster from Cruiserparts sitting in the garage...goes in this weekend, along with some other stuff...

I need front disks too....maybe this summer; along with power steering.

....and yup...I've already answered your post regarding OZ...sounds fun to me!

-H-
 

24HOURSOFNEVADA

Expedition Leader
Here's old trusty taking the boat anchor for a ride to the machine shop. This feels pretty good. The shop said it would be about a month, so I have a little time to order parts, send the injectors to RC and clean things.



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powderpig

New member
Witchhunter.com does just as good of a job on the injectors as does RC, and for a bit cheaper. They also send out a sheet of paper that shows you what the injectors were doing before and after. They turn them around in short order as well.
After the machine shop gets done with her, and you take care of her the right way, it will be much better.
I disagree with the statement that they were not designed for Forced induction. The 4 valve head is just what you want for forced induction, good pistons and ring system, piston oil coolers in the block. What more could you want in a engine design? Where it may have fallen short (expecially in 93-94) is fuel system OBDI is slower and you have to compensate for this by either having more fuel pressure(rising rate pressure regulator and a toyota turbo fuel pump) or piggy back electronics(with the higher flow turbo fuel pump). Head gasket design is a problem as well in the older engines.
Dan choose a different route with the methonal injection to keep things cool inside the engine. OBDII is quicker and can handle more info and can keep up with the air flow better. But anyone may still want the earlier radiator and the fan that Dan came up with(for the S/C engines) for better air flow, maybe even the pusher fan to help with in the city and the slow going offroad travel.
It will up and running next month and you then can have some fun with her.
 

Redline

Likes to Drive and Ride
How many liters with the new engine be with the up-size?

24HOURSOFNEVADA said:
I just ordered 1.25mm pistons. Im getting excited about this truck again. :victory:
 

locrwln

Expedition Leader
24HOURSOFNEVADA said:
I just ordered 1.25mm pistons. Im getting excited about this truck again. :victory:

Nice, how long will the custom pistons take to get to the shop? Who makes them?

Jack
 

24HOURSOFNEVADA

Expedition Leader
locrwln said:
Nice, how long will the custom pistons take to get to the shop? Who makes them?

Jack


About three weeks to get to the shop. He has a couple of different suppliers that he uses. I requested the stock compression and the only custom feature is the non-stick skirt surface.
 

locrwln

Expedition Leader
24HOURSOFNEVADA said:
About three weeks to get to the shop. He has a couple of different suppliers that he uses. I requested the stock compression and the only custom feature is the non-stick skirt surface.

Nice.:wings:

Jack
 

Redline

Likes to Drive and Ride
Would having the engine made 'lower compression' help with detonation because of the supercharger? (I assume you asked the right people and stock compression was/is okay.)

24HOURSOFNEVADA said:
About three weeks to get to the shop. He has a couple of different suppliers that he uses. I requested the stock compression and the only custom feature is the non-stick skirt surface.
 

24HOURSOFNEVADA

Expedition Leader
Redline said:
How many liters with the new engine be with the up-size?



Stock is 4478 cc

With 1.25 mm oversized pistons 4590 cc

Or...4.59 Liters

Not very impressive, for the amount of work that's involved. Going with the biggest 1.5 mm piston would have netted me an increase of 22 cc's for a total of 4613 cc's with no room for a "Clean-up" if something happens in the future. I told the machine shop, If something happens in the future, this will be getting a small block v-8! Keep in mind that 1mm is right under 40,000ths (0.0393 to be exact) Mr "T" engineered these blocks to be machined three times throughout their service life. 1.25 mm over is 0.049 and lastly 1.5 mm is 0.059. I didn't want to jump straight into a bored 60 over with no room for error.

You know...while writing this out, maybe I should have gone to 1.5? There's always next time.
 

24HOURSOFNEVADA

Expedition Leader
Redline said:
Would having the engine made 'lower compression' help with detonation because of the supercharger? (I assume you asked the right people and stock compression was/is okay.)



It seems to me, the compression should have been left where it was and the fuel issue be handled. I could be wrong. It won't be the first or last time.
 

Redline

Likes to Drive and Ride
I'm sure you are correct about the compression.

You're right, it doesn't sound like a big increase in displacement, but reliability is what you need and I agree leaving room for error/the future is a good call.

Now you need to start a thread with pics of your Dad's new mall crawler :)

24HOURSOFNEVADA said:
It seems to me, the compression should have been left where it was and the fuel issue be handled. I could be wrong. It won't be the first or last time.
 

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