JohnBradley's 2.2 long rod build
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I was at the shop yesterday and saw your setup in person. I'm jealous!
Make sure you are around when the fellas open the 'tip' I left for the shop.
John-
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With bigger cams, a fully ported head, a newer design intake manifold, and about twice the fuel capacity as my car, it better!
I was at the shop yesterday and saw your setup in person. I'm jealous!
Make sure you are around when the fellas open the 'tip' I left for the shop.
John-
I was at the shop yesterday and saw your setup in person. I'm jealous!
Make sure you are around when the fellas open the 'tip' I left for the shop.
John-
I will check out the tip as well
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this is going to be a weapon for sure, looks great Aaron!
How is the drivability of the 2.2, and how many companies make off the shelf rods and pistons to suit? Did you have to do any clearancing of the block with the 94mm crank and alloy rods?
How is the drivability of the 2.2, and how many companies make off the shelf rods and pistons to suit? Did you have to do any clearancing of the block with the 94mm crank and alloy rods?
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The other 2.2 we have running right now is very drivable. Its torquey, spools quickly, and revs enthusiastically. Of course its hard for me to say what I think about that one since I dont drive it everyday and it has/had a smaller turbo on it at the time. When this one is in the car and broke in I will definitely be able to give you some good feedback about driving.
Lucas said it felt like a 2.3 to him almost (the other car) but one that would pull to 9300 if you need it to. We have found that the higher compression motors are inherently more torquey anyway and especially out of boost. Lucas' 11:1 motor does not know the meaning of the word lug, it will pull in 5th from low rpm without hesistation. The extra displacement should make it more interesting
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Right now the pistons are custom and the rods are off the shelf. If we had access to a steady supply of 153mm rods the 2.3 piston would be off the shelf. With all alloy rod motors some clearancing is required and this one definitely saw some grinder action. The 94mm crank made it easier, but it still needed some help.
The other 2.2 we have running right now is very drivable. Its torquey, spools quickly, and revs enthusiastically. Of course its hard for me to say what I think about that one since I dont drive it everyday and it has/had a smaller turbo on it at the time. When this one is in the car and broke in I will definitely be able to give you some good feedback about driving.
Lucas said it felt like a 2.3 to him almost (the other car) but one that would pull to 9300 if you need it to. We have found that the higher compression motors are inherently more torquey anyway and especially out of boost. Lucas' 11:1 motor does not know the meaning of the word lug, it will pull in 5th from low rpm without hesistation. The extra displacement should make it more interesting
The other 2.2 we have running right now is very drivable. Its torquey, spools quickly, and revs enthusiastically. Of course its hard for me to say what I think about that one since I dont drive it everyday and it has/had a smaller turbo on it at the time. When this one is in the car and broke in I will definitely be able to give you some good feedback about driving.
Lucas said it felt like a 2.3 to him almost (the other car) but one that would pull to 9300 if you need it to. We have found that the higher compression motors are inherently more torquey anyway and especially out of boost. Lucas' 11:1 motor does not know the meaning of the word lug, it will pull in 5th from low rpm without hesistation. The extra displacement should make it more interesting
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Thanks
Some more of the head porting pictures:
Just getting started on this one
Finished bowl work and smoothed intake runner
After this got cleaned up, off it went to the machine shop to get tanked, valve seats cleaned up, and make sure there wasnt any aluminum dust left in anything. Kinda urkks me though that I took a ton of pictures when I started this build and I cant find them anymore. I must have gotten impatient and taken them off my photobucket oh well.
Some more of the head porting pictures:
Just getting started on this one
Finished bowl work and smoothed intake runner
After this got cleaned up, off it went to the machine shop to get tanked, valve seats cleaned up, and make sure there wasnt any aluminum dust left in anything. Kinda urkks me though that I took a ton of pictures when I started this build and I cant find them anymore. I must have gotten impatient and taken them off my photobucket oh well.
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Right now the pistons are custom and the rods are off the shelf. If we had access to a steady supply of 153mm rods the 2.3 piston would be off the shelf. With all alloy rod motors some clearancing is required and this one definitely saw some grinder action. The 94mm crank made it easier, but it still needed some help.
The other 2.2 we have running right now is very drivable. Its torquey, spools quickly, and revs enthusiastically. Of course its hard for me to say what I think about that one since I dont drive it everyday and it has/had a smaller turbo on it at the time. When this one is in the car and broke in I will definitely be able to give you some good feedback about driving.
Lucas said it felt like a 2.3 to him almost (the other car) but one that would pull to 9300 if you need it to. We have found that the higher compression motors are inherently more torquey anyway and especially out of boost. Lucas' 11:1 motor does not know the meaning of the word lug, it will pull in 5th from low rpm without hesistation. The extra displacement should make it more interesting
The other 2.2 we have running right now is very drivable. Its torquey, spools quickly, and revs enthusiastically. Of course its hard for me to say what I think about that one since I dont drive it everyday and it has/had a smaller turbo on it at the time. When this one is in the car and broke in I will definitely be able to give you some good feedback about driving.
Lucas said it felt like a 2.3 to him almost (the other car) but one that would pull to 9300 if you need it to. We have found that the higher compression motors are inherently more torquey anyway and especially out of boost. Lucas' 11:1 motor does not know the meaning of the word lug, it will pull in 5th from low rpm without hesistation. The extra displacement should make it more interesting
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I have seen them both ways, radically reduced and left full length and foiled. I really dont have any back to back testing on that one though to say one hurts or one helps. The valveguides in this head ended up a little reduced from the stock profile though.
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I think cutting them down to the floor is okay, but on a street car I like to keep them long enough for proper valve support. I dont want my guides going away before the rest of the motor
I have seen them both ways, radically reduced and left full length and foiled. I really dont have any back to back testing on that one though to say one hurts or one helps. The valveguides in this head ended up a little reduced from the stock profile though.
I have seen them both ways, radically reduced and left full length and foiled. I really dont have any back to back testing on that one though to say one hurts or one helps. The valveguides in this head ended up a little reduced from the stock profile though.
I tool a measurement almost a year ago on what the real loss would be if the valve guides were cut down, and it was something like only a touch over 0.10", it wasn't much at all over the total length of the valve guide. It didn't really seem to take much off mostly because of the angle of the runner vs. the protrusion, it mostly just cut the end of the guide at an angle.
And for your earlier question, I have spent too much time just poking around GSC and chatting with Greg. I am mostly curious because of my Mechanical Engineering profession, always wanting to know the difference between how vs. why things work the way they do. It usually leads me into building my own stuff, and modifying the heck out of parts that generally nobody thinks of even playing with.